LaRouchites try for a foothold in Alameda County


	LaRouchites try for a foothold in Alameda County

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5-30-2008 1:18 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/33fc2ee1-0792-4b9c-aebd-3b44f3568a37/39E839C7-1540-4A61-9E76-D8BF21479685/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County" href="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County" style="font-size: 11px;">berkeleydailyplanet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County">
Described as friendly, brilliant and bright-eyed—and at the same time as scary and cult-like—six LaRouche Democrats are running for Alameda County Democratic Central Committee</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County"><DIV>	Historical complaints about the LaRouchites—racism, homophobia and sexism—are not the salient characteristics noted by local Democratic Party activists concerned about the mostly under-30 crop of Lyndon LaRouche followers in Alameda County. 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County">“They’re trying to get a foothold in the Democratic Party,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County"><DIV>	Concerns of a half-dozen local Democratic Party activists contacted by the Planet center around the group’s apparent intent to move the committee away from its current activities doing local organizing around concrete issues such as health care and improved working conditions.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County">Briggs said that the LaRouchites talk impressively about international politics—but do so when the discussion is focused around other questions, such as how to build the local party.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-05-29/article/30113?headline=LaRouchites-Try-for-a-Foothold-in-County">	The LaRouche Democrats do not do the nuts and bolts work</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39E839C7-1540-4A61-9E76-D8BF21479685/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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