Judge Issues Warrant for Illinois LaRouche Candidate
A circuit judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Janice Hart, a Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. supporter who won the Democratic nomination for secretary of state, when she failed to appear in court for a hearing.
Hart, 31, faces a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct stemming from her arrest in May, 1985, after she and a companion disrupted a lecture by Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee by handing him a piece of raw liver. The charge carries a maximum fine of $500.
Judge Morris Topol said that Hart’s failure to appear for the hearing indicated she was “thumbing her nose at the court.” He ordered her $50-cash bond forfeited and set a court date for June 23.
Susan Johnson, a spokeswoman at LaRouche’s National Democratic Policy Committee headquarters in Chicago, said that Hart was in West Germany, campaigning for Patriots for Germany in the June 15 parliamentary elections.
Hart received the party’s nomination in the March primary, and another LaRouche backer, Mark Fairchild, was nominated for lieutenant governor.
Adlai E. Stevenson III, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, refused to run on a ticket with supporters of LaRouche, who he said espouses a “neo-Nazi” philosophy. Stevenson, who renounced the party nomination, is pursuing a third-party bid.
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