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Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman, September 20, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri and has been referred to as a cult.

Biography

Hoffman was born in Missouri to Jewish-Romanian parents in 1934. As a child he moved with his family to Montana, where he was briefly employed as a delivery boy for Helena's Independent Record newspaper.
   In the early 1960s, Hoffman moved to Los Angeles, California. He assumed the name Marcus Abad and pursued a career in music. He was briefly incarcerated for a weapon-related offense. It was there that he met aspiring actress Susan Lipowitz (born Edith Opal Horn in Dyer, Arkansas Susan delivered the sermons on the Alamos' syndicated TV program during the 1970s while Tony appeared to sing a gospel song. She died of cancer on April 8 1982 and he claimed that she'd be resurrected.
   In 1984 Alamo married Birgetta Oyllenhammer, owner of a clothing design and manufacturing company in Southern California.
   In 1985 Alamo targeted the Pope and then-president Ronald Reagan. "Did you know that the Pope and Ronald Reagan are a couple of Anti-Christ Devils and that they're selling us all down the drain?" asked a tract entitled Genocide. A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, charged Alamo with filing a false income tax return in 1985 and he failed to file returns during the following three years.
   He then married Elizabeth Amrhein. After a custody battle, they lost control of her children.
   In February 1991 Alamo ordered his followers to bring along his first wife's body when they evacuated the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation compound in Crawford County, Arkansas. The compound was about to be raided by federal marshals in the wake of a civil lawsuit against Alamo.
   Alamo was ultimately arrested on tax-related charges and was convicted in 1994. He completed a six-year federal sentence, and then went to a halfway house in Texarkana.
   Alamo's followers sometimes distribute his writings publicly. The tracts -- often in the form of a six "page" trifold pamphlet filled with relatively small type, have been found placed in the windshields of cars in shopping centers, for instance. The tracts predict impending doom and Armageddon and invite the reader to accept Jesus as his or her savior while condemning Catholicism, the Pope and the American government as a Satanic conspiracy behind events such as 9/11, Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination. Tracts currently being distributed include a picture of Alamo circa 1986.
   In an unusual tract distributed shortly before the siege of the Branch Davidian establishment in Waco, Texas, Alamo protested the media's use of the word "compound" to describe the "campus" of his "seminary," and the word "cult" to describe his "ministry." This tract had fewer Bible quotations than most.

Suffrage controversy

Alamo voted in the 2006 runoff election in Fouke, Arkansas (12 miles southeast of Texarkana) in support of incumbent Cecil Smith. This vote was challenged by Miller County Clerk Ann Nicholas on the grounds that Alamo is a convicted felon. Although Alamo presented a signed letter from probation officer John C. Mooney Jr., stating that Alamo's term of supervision had ended on December 7 1999 the letter didn't explicitly state that Alamo's suffrage had been restored.
The Arkansas Secretary of State's office issued a statement saying that the county clerk didn't have the authority to challenge a ballot on those grounds, and Alamo's ballot was ultimately accepted. However, Smith was defeated by candidate Terry Purvis with a tally of 216-151.

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