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LaRouche To Address Black Caucus
By Rob Moritz, Arkansas News Bureau Staff Writer
on February 22, 2023
Published in the Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas and the Pine Bluff Commercial.

 
The following is the text of an Arkansas News Bureau wire published in the Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas, the Pine Bluff Commercial, and possibly other local newspapers. You can see this article on-line by visiting the Times Record website (https://www.swtimes.com) and search the News Archive of February 2023 for 'LaRouche'.

LITTLE ROCK — Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial candidate for president who was convicted of mail fraud conspiracy in the late 1980s, will meet with black lawmakers Monday.

His meeting with the Legislative Black Caucus will follow a town meeting in Pine Bluff on Sunday evening at which LaRouche is to discuss national, state and local economic issues.
LaRouche will be the guest of Sen. Hank Wilkins IV, D-Pine Bluff. The town meeting begins at 5 p.m. at the Pine Bluff Convention Center and the session with the Legislative Black Caucus is set for noon Monday.

Following the afternoon sessions of the House and Senate, LaRouche, 80, will meet informally with lawmakers at a reception.

“In the wake of the fiscal crisis that we are seeing on the federal, state and local levels, it is imperative that we come together to discuss what is going on and how we are going to address it,” Wilkins said.

“That dialogue has to take place if the leaders and citizens of Pine Bluff, and the state of Arkansas are going to be on the same page in terms of economic priorities and commitments,” Wilkins said.

“I want to know (LaRouche’s) thoughts on what’s happening with us, the economy of the state,” Wilkins said. “What can we do to offset the problem?”

Wilkins said his inviting LaRouche to Arkansas does not mean he, or the Legislative Black Caucus, is endorsing LaRouche.

“I just want to hear what he has to say,” Wilkins said.

LaRouche got 22 percent of the vote in the 2000 Democratic state primary, won by Vice President Al Gore. Despite qualifying for the state ballot in Arkansas as a Democrat, LaRouche was not recognized by the national Democratic Party.

LaRouche ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1976 and since then has run as a Democrat every four years.

His federal conviction in 1988 was related to political fund raising. He was paroled in 1994.

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Paid for by LaRouche in 2004

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