October 25, 2007

NIBOT FOR SENATE            

Seven Donations to Lyndon LaRouche PAC

BERGENFIELD

– State Senate candidate Clara Nibot is demanding that Sen. Loretta Weinberg explain why her running mate Assemblyman Gordon Johnson has made a series of campaign contributions to alleged anti-Semite and fringe party leader Lyndon LaRouche. Nibot has documentation that Johnson, a former undersheriff in Bergen County made $1,850 in seven contributions to the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee from August 2005 to November 2006.  LaRouche has been a lightening rod for criticism of his often anti-Semitic remarks and for his government conspiracy theories.  LaRouche was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in 1988 for conspiracy  to commit mail fraud and tax code violations, but continued his political activities from behind bars until his release in 1994 on parole.

B’Nai Brith, Canadapublished a book Titled: “The Lyndon LaRouche Network: The Canadian Connection” in which it said that: “Throughout the 1980s, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. was one of the best-financed and vitriolic hate propagandists in the United States. His seemingly incompatible ties with both neo-Nazi groups and the Nation of Islam were based on a belief in an international conspiracy masterminded by the Jews”

The conservative Heritage Foundation said of LaRouche: "[He] leads what may well be one of the strangest political groups in American history. LaRouche has managed to attract a small but fanatical following to his conspiratorial view of the world." 

 “Sen. Weinberg and the voters of District 37 are owed an explanation of Gordon Johnson’s support of a man and an organization that is obviously hostile to Jewish people and to all those who oppose the propagation of hate,” said Nibot. 

 “I am sure that Sen. Weinberg would find Assemblyman Gordon’s association with the LaRouche group repugnant. I know I do.   I would expect her to denounce the Assemblyman and ask for an explanation of why he would support such a man and his organization,” said Nibot.     

The latest revelations on Gordon follow an official reprimand by the Englewood City manager for Gordon strong- arming city employees into donating to his campaign.  “There is a question of character with Mr. Gordon that needs to be explored here,” added Nibot.