101 LaRouche Delegates Elected in South Dakota
March 17, 2023

The hundred and one South Dakota LaRouche Democrats elected as delegates at the thirty five simultaneous state legislative district caucuses on March 13 are clear proof of the electability of Presidential Candidate LaRouche. "The Democratic Party always talks about mobilizing the 'grass roots,'" one LaRouche delegate said, "but we are the only ones who actually did it." The LaRouche delegations were made up of people from 18 to 86, including farmers and ranchers, unionists, students, small businessmen, and all races and sexes. Without anybody even trying we have a perfect model of the typical Democratic Party Affirmative Action Plan. The other delegates were mainly office holders and members of their families.

As the delegates began to deliver their pledge forms to the South Dakota Democratic Party in Pierre the day before the March 10 pledged delegate deadline they were handed a copy of the infamous MacAuliffe letter which had been sent to all the Democratic Party State chairs, including Judy Olson Duhamel, the state chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party. This letter, sent out by the Democratic National Committee and signed by Terence McAuliffe, its national chairman, has been written about in New Federalist in the past. It spreads the filthy slander that LaRouche's "beliefs are explicitely racist and anti-Semitic," and says that state parties "should not recognize the selection of delegates pledged to him at any stage of the delegate selection progress."

When this author contacted Justin Schulte, the executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party he explained, "This letter was only given to your people as a heads-up. We have received no instructions from the South Dakota Democratic Party about excluding any of your delegates. In fact, we welcome you to the delegate process and to the party."

In the caucuses themselves the coordinators treated all LaRouche delegates fairly. At one district in Rapid City a fellow told a LaRouche delegate that Lyndon LaRouche is not a Democrat and could not run on the Democratic ticket. The party coordinator voluntarily intervened upon hearing this slander and said, "LaRouche is running in South Dakota and his delegates have all the rights of any delegates in this process."

In many of the districts, after the official business was over,the delegates for candidates other than LaRouche, gathered arouund the LaRouche caucus's tables for hours of discussion about LaRouche's views on the war, the economic crisis, agricultural and industrial policy etc.

The 101 elected LaRouche Democrats are now preparing for the second tier Congressional District assembled caucus in Pierre on March 27. The names of nine delegates elected to appear on the primary ballot with LaRouche on June 1. The delegates are leading meetings and classes throughout the state to expand their outreach and their optimism.

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