April 30, 2008 (LPAC)--A two-man team of LaRouche PAC volunteers manning a literature table on Main St, Hobart, Indiana found an electric response to real, constituency organizing and discovered a unique surprise toward the end of the day. Hobart is a steel-town in the northwest corner of Indiana with a good mix of other blue-collar workers; LaRouche PAC and previous LaRouche presidential campaigns have had high-visibility in Hobart over the years. All day long, one person after another stopped at the LaRouche PAC booth to express outrage about gas prices; the ethanol, food-for-fuel disaster; airline bankruptcies and, most widespread: the foreclosure crisis. Citizen after citizen expressed agreement and support for the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act (HBPA), after a quick summary by the volunteers. Supporters of any of the 3 candidates and supporters of "none of the above" were each and all animated by the hope of the HBPA as a legislative firewall and the beginning of a new, New Deal.

Late in the day, just before Hillary Clinton was to stop in town for a small event just off of Main Street, a retired man in casual attire came up to the LaRouche PAC booth. He listened attentively to a summary report on the HBPA organizing yet interrupted, at the point where the LaRouche PAC volunteer was naming Gary, IN, East Chicago, IN,...:" We passed that here, too!", he proudly exclaimed. When asked how this came about, as this was news to the LaRouche PAC volunteer, he announced that he is a City Council member in Hobart and he had done it himself! He had read about the passage of the HBPA in Gary, IN...He then went down to Gary, obtained a copy, introduced it in Hobart, and it passed unanimously on April 2, 2008! So, the HBPA is now taking on a life of it's own, a Promethean fire that the City of London's gargoyles just might not be able to ever extinguish.