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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 conductIn the criminal law of the United States of America, disorderly conduct is a name given to a rather ill defined crime. This offence is committed, in essence, whenever a person engages in activities that annoy police officers or similar officials, or come due to her actions during a speech on the International Monetary FundThe International Monetary Fund IMF is an international organization responsible for managing the global financial system and for providing loans to its member states to help alleviate balance of payments problems. Part of its mission is to help countries given by Milwaukee ArchbishopIn Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. When a bishop becomes an archbishop, he is not in any sense being ordained nor otherwise recei Rembert G. Weakland . She claimed she was giving him the " Cecil RhodesCecil John Rhodes ( July 5, 1853 March 26, 1902) was a British imperialist and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia (since 1980 known as Zimbabwe), named after himself. He profited greatly from southern Africa's natural resources. Rhodes was bor award for peace" and symbolically threw a pound of raw liverThe liver is an organ in vertebrates including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including detoxification, glycogen storage and plasma protein synthesis. It also produces bile which is important for dige at the feet of the Archbishop because she believed he supported apartheidApartheid ap-ar-taed is an Afrikaans word meaning "separation" or literally "aparthood" (or "apartness"). It was the name of the policy and the system of laws implemented and enforced by "White" minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990. in South AfricaSouth Africa is a republic at the southern tip of Africa. It is bordered to the north by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland. Lesotho is contained entirely inside the borders of South Africa. South Africa is one o.

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 was Pucinski that 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.