WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans The corruption indictment on a bunch of nasty counts of bribes, influence peddling, and campaign finagling didn’t come as a surprise to read in the Times. For daily readers, it seemed like one shoe after another was dropping around him and had been doing so for a good part of his …
New Orleans Being a frequent traveler, I get an absentee ballot from the good election officials in Orleans Parish, and I appreciate it. My ballot came in yesterday’s mail on September 25 for the November 5th election. I’ve voted, gave them my mother’s maiden name, had a witness print and sign, and put a …
New Orleans Recently, I called out Florida and the efforts of Governor Ron DeSantis and his crew to try and put their finger on the scale to prejudice Florida voters in favor of choice on pregnancy by injecting a fake speculation of the cost to the state if the measure passed. I thought they …