The Nation - News from March 26, 1986
The Texas Democratic Party chairman is mailing 18,000 party officials copies of a list of candidates backed by extremist Lyndon LaRouche in an effort to prevent their winning nominations in the May primary. The message is simple, Chairman Robert Slagle said in Austin.”Unless you know who it is you are voting for against an incumbent, you better vote for the incumbent,” he said. Political observers were stunned last week when LaRouche followers in Illinois captured the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor and secretary of state.
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