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LaRouche Supporters Set Up Info Booth in Front of Gibsonia Post Office

Site is at busy intersection of Routes 910 and 8 in Richland Township.

Two Lyndon LaRouche supporters set up signs and an informational stand in front of the Tuesday, at the busy intersection of Routes 910 and 8, to criticize President Barack Obama and hand out literature espousing their views.

On a small strip of grass alongside Route 910, LaRouche Political Action Committee Coordinator Tony Esposito and fellow organizer Joseph Billington of Brentwood stood by the stand, on which signs were posted that declared “No Bailouts! No Budget Cuts! Restore Glass-Steagall.”

They said they represented the Political Action Committee for LaRouche, a longtime activist and former presidential candidate.

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Some motorists who were stopped at the traffic light spoke to the men. Others honked their horns, while another yelled, “Obama.”

Esposito said they also are encouraging people to attend a Pittsburgh Town Hall meeting from 2 to 5 p.m. Nov. 12 at the

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Esposito, who is from the Philadelphia area, said the group is setting up in shopping centers and at post offices across the nation.

In a short conversation about the views of LaRouche PAC, Esposito criticized Obama and the military actions in Libya.

“We want to bring him down by impeachment,” Esposito said.

He also espoused the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, which was passed in 1933  to prohibit commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. Congress made significant changes to the act in 1999, repealing the restrictions on bank and securities-firm affiliations, according to a New York Times online article.

Esposito promoted supporting the North American Water and Power Alliance, huge infrastructure project that would bring water from Alaska to dry Western states and create millions of jobs immediately, he said.

The literature on the information table called NAWAPA “the [Tennessee Valley Authority] of the 21st century.” The TVA was created in the 1930s as the nation worked to lift itself out of the Depression.

 

 


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