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Lakesha (Kesha) Rogers is the winner of the U.S. Democratic Party primary election in Texas's 22nd congressional district, who will face incumbent Republican representative Pete Olson in the 2010 general election. Rogers, an African American, is a follower of Lyndon LaRouche and his LaRouche movement. She has called for the impeachment of U.S. President Barack Obama. In 2006, Rogers ran for chairman of the Texas Democratic Party.[1]
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According to her campaign biography, Kesha Rogers was born to a "lower middle class family", with her father being a minister and construction worker and her mother working for Houston ISD. She graduated from Texas State University in 2001 with a degree in Political Science and Speech Communications.[1][2] She has criticized "the standard institutions of higher education" as "the biggest barrier towards students wanting a real classical education", and has expressed an interest in recruiting young people to the LaRouche Youth Movement:[2]
My passion is recruiting young people to the profound and inspiring art of political statecraft, through a classical educational curriculum based on reliving the original discoveries of the greatest minds in classical art, music, and science, everything from J.S. Bach's principles of classical musical composition, to the unique discovery of universal gravitation by Johannes Kepler.
Rogers is an active supporter of the LaRouche Youth Movement,[1][3] and has been photographed holding a LaRouche campaign sign depicting President Obama with a Hitler mustache.[4] Rogers has attacked President Obama for allegedly trying to dismantle NASA (a big employer in the Houston area), and supports his impeachment.[5] She has also criticized Obama's health care reform proposals, arguing that they are fascist and will kill Americans. Rogers supports "a global Glass-Steagall", a reference to a banking reform law that was passed during the Great Depression and repealed in 1999.[4]
During her 2010 primary campaign for U.S. Representative, Rogers accused President Obama of "pissing on John F. Kennedy's legacy" by proposing to end NASA's Constellation program. She also rejects the anthropogenic global warming theory and argues that London banking interests are trying to ruin America's economy.[6]
On March 2, 2010, Rogers ran in the Democratic primary election against two opponents, Doug Blatt and Freddy John Wieder, Jr., winning the election with 54 percent of the vote. In the general election, she will face Pete Olson, the incumbent Republican Congressman who ran unopposed in the Republican primary.[3][7] Stating that Lyndon LaRouche followers are "not Democrats", a Texas Democratic Party spokesperson assured the Houston Press that "[Rogers's] campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff."[8][9] Gerry Birnberg, chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party, was quoted as saying “One of the things the LaRouchites are able to do is to engage young people... If she can turn out young people to vote for Democrats, all the better.” He added that he objected to her association with LaRouche, but that if she held many of the same views while belonging to a group called “LBJ Democrats,” her ideas would appear much more mainstream.[6]
Following Rogers' victory, a spokesman for her Republican opponent Pete Olson said “You never take an election for granted, but you, perhaps, wonder whether the Democrats in this district have profoundly changed their views on the president. She didn't hide her position.”[6]
Rogers and Birnberg said that much of LaRouche's thinking is in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Specific examples include investment in public works, separating commercial from investment banking and opposition to corporatism.[6]
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