Kesha Rogers, Democrat in a Tinfoil Hat, Is Likely Senate Nominee

[TexasTowelie]

By now, you’ve probably heard that Kesha Rogers—a perennial candidate from Houston who wants to impeach Obama—is in the lead among Democratic candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, according to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released on Monday.

That’s bad news for a party pushing a narrative about resurgence, relevance and seriousness. Yesterday the Texas Democratic Party sent an email with the subject line “Don’t Vote For Kesha Rogers” that called her candidacy “an insult” and mentioned that she’d “paraded around Texas with a poster of the President with a Hitler mustache.”

But while it’s easy—and, let’s face it, fun—to write about mustaches and plans to industrialize the moon (more on that in a minute), Rogers could very well be the Democratic nominee. I talked to her to learn where she stands on other issues important to Democrats.

First, some background: Rogers is a LaRouche Democrat, meaning she follows Lyndon LaRouche, a conspiracy theorist whose devotees advocate a world gold standard and want to colonize Mars. At 37, Rogers has had no career other than a certain brand of politics and has never held elected office. In 2006, she ran (unsuccessfully) for chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. In 2010 and 2012, she ran for Congress, winning the Democratic nomination both times before decisively losing the general. Her new lead is not small, but neither is it immutable. Though almost three-quarters of those surveyed had no opinion, Monday’s poll shows her pulling 35 percent among likely voters in a five-way race. Her closest competitor, David Alameel, trails with 27 percent despite an endorsement from Wendy Davis.

More at http://www.texasobserver.org/kesha-rogers-democrat-tinfoil-hat-likely-senate-nominee/ .

[font color=green]Please note that this is not an endorsement of Rogers and I will not be voting for her. I am posting this article to provide information about her political views to persuade progressive Democrats why they should not consider her for nominee in the US Senate race. Having her on the ballot in November will have detrimental effect for other statewide candidates such as Davis and Van de Putte.[/font]

[northoftheborder]

1. Very discouraging news. I am voting for Scherr.

[Jake Stern]

2. What a dilemma.

If she becomes the nominee, the choice for Texas Democrats will be to either vote for her or stand aside and basically throw the election.

[Gothmog]

3. Kesha will not be the nominee (I hope)

At worse (I hope), Kesha will be in a run off with Alameel. I would prefer that the run off be between Scheer and Alameel and I have already voted for Scheer. Alameel has the money to deal with Kesha. In Fort Bend County, the party and the Silver Democrats Club went after Kesha in 2012. Individual members of the party did a mailing to likely primary voters. In addition, we put flyers out and had signs telling people that Kesha was not a Democrat. In Fort Bend County in 2012, we held Kesha to 35% of the vote. Kesha won the nomination because there was no coordinated effort against her in the portion of Harris and Wharton counties that are in CD22.

I still have a Kesha is not a Democrat sign at my house and the Fort Bend County Party still has 400 such signs in storage. If Kesha is in a run off, we will be showing Alameel and the State Party how to beat her. For the run off, the party can concentrate on the primary voters and I think that Alameel will be able to win the runoff

BTW, I think that Chairman Hinojosa e-mail was effective and now the party is busy getting the word out about Kesha. My county party chairman and Juanita Jean will be advising the State Party as to what works and I hope that there is still a chance that Kesha will not make the run off. Remember, that polling in Texas is not that good and it is even more difficult to poll a Democratic primary.

At best Kesha will get 35% of the vote which means that 65% of the Democrats voting in the primary will be against her. We can make sure that these votes go to Alameel. I believe that Kesha will not survive a run off against Alameel if Alameel listens to the party and the Fort Bend democrats.

[RussBLib]

4. Rogers will not be the nominee

IMHO, Alameel and Scherr will be in a run-off.

But Rogers makes for "fun" and "scary" copy with which to fundraise.

[TBF]

5. I'm voting for Scherr -

Kesha's gonna have to colonize Mars on her own dime. I suggest she go there and check it out.

[TxDemChem]

6. I passed around as much info yesterday as I could

to all the dem voters I know. I have a few things to say about this nutty woman, but as I don't want to offend too many people, I'll just call her a silly bitch. She's an embarrassment to the dem party.

[Gothmog]

7. Kesha is not a Democrat

I have met Kesha and she claims to be a FDR Democrat whatever that means. The Texas Democratic Party does not claim her and the Texas Democratic Party has adopted resolutions stating that she is not part of the party

[TxDemChem]

11. I know. But many of my coworkers didn't.

As of today, they now know it. I heard a GOP coworker talking about her last week, supposedly trying to get other dems at our job to vote for her. I found out at lunch that no one was fooled by this plow. Just in case things got complicated, I was ready to forward this OP, but they'd already heard enough. They have known for weeks not to be fooled by her posters. They just didn't tell me.

As a side note, I tried to vote today but found I had a flat tire this morning. Hubby and I will be going tomorrow to vote early. Go dems!

And may I say, I am proud of my cousin, who had been interning at Wendy Davis's office for a while now. While we may not be on the same page 100%, I find that she is still my choice for governor.

Pardon any misspellings. I've been drinking vermouth and vodka tonight. I'm ready to GOTV tomorrow morning!

[Gothmog]

8. Here is the resolution adopted by the Texas Democratic Party with respect to Kesha

Here is the actual resolution adopted by the State Party http://www.txdemocrats.org/pdf/Kesha-Rogers.pdf

State Democratic Executive Committee (SDEC) Has Resolved:

WHEREAS, the rules of the Texas Democratic Party (Art. I, B, 1.) require that no test of membership, nor oaths of loyalty, to the Texas Democratic Party shall be used if those oaths or tests would have the effect of requiring members of the Democratic Party to acquiesce in, condone or support discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and ethnic origin, now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that no Rules or Declarations of the Texas Democratic Party that require support for Party nominees shall be enforced or have any application as they relate to the candidacy of any person identifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche, and, be it further

RESOLVED, that Members, Officers and Candidates of the Texas Democratic Party are neither required nor encouraged to support the candidacy of any person indentifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche but are nevertheless free to relate to, describe and interact with any such candidates or campaigns as they individually deem appropriate, and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Texas Democratic Party will have no relationship with the campaign of any person indentifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche; no such campaigns will have access to Party materials or data, no listing on the Party website and no position of privilege, recognition, or credentialing at Party meetings or conventions.

[PDittie]

9. Scherr was on MSNBC this morning

http://egbertowillies.com/2014/02/27/democratic-senate-candidate-maxey-scherr/

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Do you think that Republicans would vote in the Democratic primary just to throw it to Kesha?

Granted that would mean they couldn't vote for anyone in the GOP primary, but don't most positions have a clear front runner? Stockman isn't going to beat Cornyn. Abbott will be the nominee for governor. Attorney General is up for grabs and Dan Patrick may cause a run off with David Dewhurst, but I could really see some dirty dealings from the GOP.