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PRESS RELEASE LaRouche Files For Federal Matching Funds |
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Leesburg, Aug. 29 -- Lyndon LaRouche, a leading candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2004, today made his threshold submission to qualify for Federal matching funds. LaRouche is the second of the 10 major candidates to file, Howard Dean having been the first. LaRouche's campaign, LaRouche in 2004, which has already raised over $4.75 million, is currently spending that money, to make the political breakthroughs required to save the nation from war, depression, and dictatorship. The major focus of his effort is to defeat the recall of Governor Davis in California, by exposing the role of Vice-President Dick Cheney in creating the energy crisis there. Removing Cheney from office, by either resignation or impeachment, LaRouche has stressed, is the essential requirement for saving the nation now, not in 2004 or 2005. Deriding candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger as "Cheney's overpriced geek act," LaRouche has commissioned a campaign of bumper stickers and leaflets in California, to defeat the recall. LaRouche's rapidly growing youth movement will play a major role in carrying out this campaign, which may well determine the outcome of the Democratic Party nomination fight, as well as the fate of the nation. The matching funds submission to the Federal Election Commission consisted of $175,708 dollars, which came from 859 contributors in 23 states. The amount per state ranged from $5,850 to $9,000. To qualify, a candidate needs to have $5,000 from 20 states, of contributions of $250 per person. Every time LaRouche has filed for matching funds, in a Democratic primary election, he has qualified. - 30 -
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