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Mass Strike Continues to Hit the Allies of Wall Street

May 10, 2010 (LPAC)—In Utah yesterday, as LaRouche western states spokesman Harley Schlanger had expected, 18-year incumbent Utah Senator Robert Bennett was ousted at the Republican caucus, finishing third, and his Senate career ended. Bennett's ouster was set in motion by unprecedented turnout at the preliminary caucuses at the end of March, when 75,000 turned out, whereas the usual attendance had been under 10,000. During LaRouche PAC's March 25 town hall meeting and Schlanger's radio appearances in Salt Lake, Utah activists told Schlanger that Bennett would be defeated due to his vote for the TARP bailout and his continuing defense of Wall Street's deregulation and free market globalization policies. Some of the grass roots leaders of the revolt follow LPAC regularly, through the www.larouchepac.com website, and radio programs in Utah.

Both of the Republicans who beat Bennett, and will be in the primary in June, made the continuing bailout of Wall Street their leading issue. They are backed by Tea Party activists. However, contrary to the claims of Dick Armey's Freedom Works, this was less a victory for his group, than a real grass roots rebellion, a continuing, and deepening, example of what LaRouche has characterized as the mass strike process which wants to rid the United States of Wall Street.

Bennett had strong credentials as a "conservative," has had the full support of the Mormon Church, is the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee — but supported the nationalization/bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which LaRouche called "tantamount to treason," and the TARP bailout. While addressing the convention in Salt Lake yesterday, he was greeted, derisively, with chants of "TARP, TARP, TARP."

A contrasting marker of the same process, is seen in Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's steady advance to a now-12% lead in polls for her May 18 primary. Lincoln also voted for TARP, and for the Obamacare bill, and was in serious electoral trouble when state lieutenant governor Bill Halter announced against her, backed by MoveOn.org. But since Lincoln introduced a tough anti-Wall Street/derivatives bill six weeks ago, flanking Sen. Chris Dodd's weak and White House-inspired bill, she has moved steadily into a strong lead in the primary.


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