One of them, K. P. George, has a background that makes him an improbable candidate — he was born in a village in India that still has no electricity or running water. For his opponent, Kesha Rogers, it is her political positions that stand out — she is best known for demanding President Obama’s impeachment. In light of Ms. Rogers’s candidacy, the Fort Bend County Democratic Party’s executive committee has issued a rare primary endorsement, backing Mr. George in the 22nd District. “If I can figure out what that silver bullet is to make sure that she is not on my slate after May, then I’ll definitely do that,” said Steve Brown, chairman of the Fort Bend Democratic Party. “I don’t think the endorsement alone is going to do it. It’s going to take work.” Party officials worry that if Ms. Rogers prevails, Democrats will not be able to encourage voters to cast straight-ticket ballots for their party in the general election — already an uphill battle in the Houston suburbs. But Ms. Rogers, a follower of the controversial activist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., says she is in the race “to restore the principles of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy to the Democratic Party.” In addition to seeking Mr. Obama’s impeachment “for gross violations of the Constitution in the service of Wall Street imperialism,” Ms. Rogers is calling for significant investment in manned space exploration to avoid “mass extinction of the human species” and for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which prohibited commercial banks from conducting investment business. There is a precedent for the concern about Ms. Rogers’s candidacy. In 2010, she won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd District with 52 percent of the vote in a three-way primary. In retrospect, party leaders said, voters did not know enough about her positions before they cast their ballots. She was soundly defeated in the general election by the incumbent, Pete Olson of Sugar Land, and she received no organizational support from the Democratic Party. The state party’s executive committee even approved a resolution releasing party officers from having to back a LaRouche-affiliated candidate. That resolution remains in effect. “It’s my burden now to make sure voters in Fort Bend County know clear and well that Kesha is no Democrat,” Mr. Brown said. But Ms. Rogers said, “If the only policy of my opponent is the ‘Stop Kesha’ campaign, I don’t see that as something that’s really going to inspire the population.” Mr. George, who is running on a more establishment-friendly platform of investing in education and protecting Medicare and Social Security, said he is not taking Ms. Rogers lightly. He even agrees that financing needs to be restored for manned space exploration, saying it is the one issue on which he strongly differs from Mr. Obama. It is a safe stance to take in the district that, until recent the recent redistricting, included NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Still, he said, “I’d rather worry about how I can get a job for you before I go and try to colonize Mars.”
