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".
Marble Falls Georgia makes just about anyone’s list of battleground states for the November US presidential election, but there’s every indication that it’s a battleground for voters simply trying to get on the voter rolls and then stay on the rolls without being purged either deliberately or through technical sloppiness. Most recently, reports by …
Marble Falls Every once in a while, Google Alerts will pull something up that surprises, when they are acting not like a contemporary search for mentions of ACORN, but more like the Wayback Machine archiving the internet. Recently, they ran something from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and its political column almost fifteen years ago. …
Marble Falls Having been organizationally involved in voter protection, voter registration, and getting people to vote, I guess I would have to admit that I take it personally, not just professionally. I read a well-meaning piece by reporter Michael Wine in the Times that sought to document some of the efforts in states like …