New Orleans A lot of big whoops, many of them who seem to be Republican partisans to a fault, are really upset that there may be a higher state minimum wage in the state of Missouri. They seem to be willing to go to any ends in order to confuse and dissuade voters on one …
Month: October 2006
Planner Canvas in New Orleans
New Orleans Steve Bradberry, the head organizer of New Orleans ACORN, and I were delighted to be invited by Professor Ken Reardon, our great planning partner since the storm from Cornell University, to welcome the troops for their field work in the 9th Ward. There were some 60 students from Cornell and Columbia in the …
Senator Grassley’s Desperate Politics
New Orleans A letter was faxed in the afternoon from Senator Charles Grassley, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, to ACORN’s President Maude Hurd. It was 8 pages in length with about 60 questions asking for a world of information (a list of all ACORN employees, a list of all ACORN funders, and on and …