Los Angeles As Obama gets closer to finalizing the Democratic nomination and the 50-50 odds that we may actually have an African-American as President, hardly 40 years after finally making sure that African-Americans could actually vote, sinks into the electorate and the chattering classes, it was interesting to note in a recent Economist some …
Author: wade
A Win in Missouri and a Planton in Oaxaca
New Orleans Two notes from yesterday to pass on. One is some good news in Missouri at least temporarily. The final day of the legislative session passed on without the haters and baiters there succeeding in putting a measure on the November ballot requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Our own voting rights …
Na at ACORN Headquarters
New Orleans It was too good an opportunity to pass up. Our great organizing colleague from Korea, Na Hyowoo, was en route from a meeting in Mexico City (where he visited with Victor Torres, ACORN Mexico), and we convinced him to redeye into New Orleans to visit with us and plot the next steps …