November 7, 2007 (LPAC)--Loudoun County, Virginia Sheriff Steve Simpson won re-election in a contest shaped by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC)'s mobilization against his Republican opponent, Greg Ahlemann. LPAC's beefed-up campaign squads in Loudoun, a place considered by LaRouche to be "national 'Ground Zero' of the real estate bubble", received warm reception regarding LaRouche's Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007. The side-dish was Ahlemann on a skewer; the organizers made abundantly clear his anti-immigrant crusade as front for fascism.
Sheriff Simpson ran as an independent, defeating both his Democratic challenger and Ahlemann, although Democrats won most other local races.
Ahlemann's campaign on the other hand, ever since an October 15 press conference when he proudly boasted his Armageddon tatoo (Israeli and American flags linked by a cross), has been exposed by EIR as "part of an international theocratic, fascist underground, connecting the Blackwater corporate leadership to armageddonist Protestant and Catholic operatives."
The hyper-inflationary housing `boom' of the last six years, which has been especially intense in Loudoun County and surrounding areas, helped draw large numbers of Hispanic immigrants to the region. Now that that bubble is collapsing fast, some Republican factions, most typically controlled by those Brits and globalists who would like to see the United States destroy itself, are trying to whip up voters against immigrants, blaming them as the cause of the economic disaster, a hoary fascist-populist tactic often ignited during economic collapse periods.
LPAC leaflets were circulated widely in the county's neighborhoods and churches. Close observers of the sheriff's race said the LaRouche intervention had created a strong dynamic against the attempts to generate anti-immigrant hysteria. This made the difference for Simpson's victory, even, surprisingly enough, in Eastern Loudoun precincts thought to be claimed by the fascists, where Simpson had little resources or campaign activity.
