Rachel Brown's Campaign Puts Liar Barney Frank on the Defensive

A prominent article in The Standard-Times, a print and internet publication on the Massachusetts coast, on the 4th District Congressional campaign, reflects how much the LaRouche Democrat Rachel Brown congressional campaign has already put "Bailout Barney" Frank on the defensive. The article, which appeared on the front page of the print edition, along with pictures of the four contenders for the seat, including Rachel Brown, was entitled "Race for Frank's House Seat Heats Up."

"Recession has a way of raising the stakes of an election," the article begins. It then profiles the candidates, on both the Republican and Democratic sides, and then comes back to the economic issue.

Rachel Brown is quoted accusing Frank of refusing to answer her question, in August 2009, about the "Nazi policy" of health-care reform. Later, the author quotes Rachel's call for a return to Glass-Steagall, and her charge that "Barney Frank has been defending the financial institutions which caused this collapse, and I am going to do the opposite of that."

Asked for comment, Frank simply lied. "I haven't been defending the institutions," he said. "We just passed the toughest financial regulatory reform since the New Deal, and it's exactly the opposite of what she says."

Oh, yeah? Does Frank think the population is going to buy that? Rachel Brown has already flooded the district with the truth about how Barney lied when he said he had opposed the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. Indeed, the Congressional Record documents that, during the final vote on Nov. 4, 1999, Barney said, "We give the financial institutions everything they have asked for."

That's what he did then, and what he does now. And this time, with a true alternative before them in Rachel Brown's candidacy, the voters might just treat him with the contempt he deserves.