November 2, 2007 (LPAC)--The introduction of the Lyndon LaRouche inspired Homeowners and Bank Protection Act into the Illinois legislature is reported extensively in the newspaper serving the capital, the Springfield, Illinois Journal-Register today.

The article covers the press conference held by Mark Fairchild, a LaRouche associate who defeated a former Democratic Congressman in 1986 to win the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.

Rep. Charles Jefferson (D-Rockford) is the lead sponsor of the resolution, HR 761. Jefferson told the Journal-Register that he got the idea from Missouri Democratic State Representative Juanita Walton. Jefferson acknowledged that he is aware of the LaRouche connection. He told the paper, "I think it's a good resolution overall. I think we're suffering through people losing their homes and mortgages and banks going under for whatever reason."

The Journal-Register recounts Fairchild's upset victory in 1986, including how the media reported right up to the election that former congressman George Sangmeister was unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor, but then had to admit at 4 a.m. election night that Fairchild had won. And, later, how former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson had, quoting Fairchild, "tragically committed an act of political suicide" by forming a third party rather than running as a Democrat with Fairchild, and thereby thrown the election to the incumbent Republican, and dooming the Democratic party out of the Governor's seat for a decade to come.

Fairchild is also quoted on LaRouche's promotion of a high-speed railroad to connect Russia and the United States" which would be a "3,700 mile-long railroad, including a tunnel under the Bering Strait." Of LaRouche's frameup in 1988, Fairchild says, "That was a very dark episode in American history. Lyndon LaRouche was thrown into prison in an outrageous kangaroo court, held as an innocent man and a political prisoner."