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| Name | Janice Hart |
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| Info | Janice Hart is a supporter of the controversial American politician Lyndon LaRouche. She is best known for her surprise capture of the Illinois Democratic Party's nomination for Secretary of State in 1986. Critics saw her campaign as a dangerous precedent for mainstream success of "fringe" politics. LaRouche himself contended that her nomination was a victory over of the faction Democratic party controlled by bankers.
Hart received 15% of the vote, while Solidarity Party candidate Jane Spirgel received 17% and Republican incumbent Jim Edgar won the election with 67%. Despite losing the election, Hart considered her campaign a success due to the awareness that had been raised on international drug trafficking and AIDS. The LaRouche organization supported the Proposition 64 referendum in California which placed AIDS back on the state list of communicable diseases, and subject to public health law.
After the election, Hart was fined $500 for disorderly conduct due to her actions during a speech on the International Monetary Fund given by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland. She claimed she was giving him the "Cecil Rhodes award for peace" and symbolically threw a pound of raw liver at the feet of the Archbishop because she believed he supported apartheid in South Africa.
In 1987 Hart ran for circuit court clerk against Aurelia Pucinski. Pucinski was the secretary of state candidate endorsed by the Democratic Party when Hart scored her upset nomination. This time however, it Pucinski beat out Hart for the position.
Hart again attempted to run for Secretary of State as a Democrat in the 1990 race, but this time many of the "LaRouche Democrats" were taken off the ballot by the State Board of Elections on the grounds that they did not have enough signatures.
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