New Orleans Election Day, finally! Only one more thing that everyone needs to do and should have already done: get out and vote. Yes, your vote may have been suppressed, but get out and vote. Yes, you may be depressed at the choices and grossed out by the campaign, but you really don’t have …
Month: November 2016
Hillary, Lifeline, ACORN, and Me
New Orleans Everybody has their own reasons for being excited that this election is almost over. Mine are much the same with one difference: I’m tired of telling the story of Hillary Clinton’s role in opposing ACORN’s initiative election victory establishing “lifeline” electricity rates in Little Rock in 1976. Every time Hillary runs for national …
If Latinos and African-Americans Deliver the Election, What Will Change?
New Orleans Every current indication is that early voting from Latinos is soaring to unprecedented levels in Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida, while African-American early voting is significant, though lower than the record levels of participation achieved in the excitement of electing and retaining Barack Obama as the first African-American president. If the early trend …