October 26, 2007 (LPAC)--Mark Fairchild, the LaRouche Democrat who won the Illinois Democratic Party's primary election for the office of Lieutenant Governor in March 1986, yesterday, called for the resignation of Nancy "Adlai" Pelosi while speaking in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois this morning. As local TV, radio and newspaper reporters crowded around, Fairchild announced a state-wide tour to mobilize support for the Homeowner and Bank Protection Act of 2007 (HBPA). Appearing next to him in front of the Winnebago County offices, was the legislative assistant to local State Rep. Chuck Jefferson (the Rep was unable to attend in person). Rep Jefferson is one of the three co-sponsors of the bill in the Illinois state legislature calling for the U. S. Congress to pass LaRouche's HBPA. Fairchild subsequently met with legislative directors of two state senators, and visited the offices of various city and county officials.
In his statement, Fairchild said that, "Support for this legislation is widespread among the many rank-and-file Democrats, and Republicans, with whom I have been speaking. Local elected officials have, likewise, been very receptive. The problem is in the Democratic leadership in Congress. They are behaving with the same brazen arrogance and disregard for the will and the needs of the American people today, that the Illinois state Democratic leadership did back in 1986, when they decided to repudiate the votes of the close to 400,000 Democrats who voted for me, solely because of my association with Lyndon LaRouche. Nancy 'Adlai' Pelosi is performing the same kind of disservice to the Democratic voters of 2006, who delivered a landslide repudiation of the war and economic policies of Cheney and Bush, that Adlai Stevenson III did to the Democratic voters of Illinois in 1986. Recent polls reveal that the popularity of the U.S. Congress has shrunk to only 10.75%...which is even lower than Adlai Stevenson's abysmal showing in the general election in 1986!"
"Many hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois have suffered needlessly and horribly over the years, because the Democratic leadership wrongfully repudiated that 1986 vote for myself and LaRouche's policies. I intend to remedy that situation, at least in part, by mobilizing to ensure the passage of the HBPA. Just because the Democratic leadership under 'Adlai' Pelosi, Felix Rohatyn, and their friends have decided to ignore the votes of so many Democrats, doesn't mean that we should allow those voters to be foreclosed upon, and forced out of their homes."
"What can we do here in Rockford?" a reporter asked. Fairchild called for the city Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution calling for the Congress to pass the HBPA, and cited support for the HBPA from state legislatures, city councils, and Democratic Party organizations around the country.
"How serious is this crisis? Should we all take our money out of the bank?" Fairchild replied, "I understand your fear, but it won't solve anything to hide your money under your mattress," and outlined again the solution represented by the HBPA and follow-up measures.
The reporter then followed up, "You're saying if this is not done, we're facing something worse that the Great Depression?"
"Yes, we're threatened with dictatorship," and, as the cameras kept rolling, Mark described the threat that Dick Cheney and his backers would use the crisis to impose rule by emergency decree. He cited Lyndon's LaRouche's warnings, including in his recent webcast, of the parallel between the 1933 Reichstag fire, leading to the Hitler dictatorship, and the actions of Cheney et al, for police state measures, on and after 9/11.
