Buckhorn Lake, Ontario Unions wear politics like a second shirt, always in the closet ready to grab off the hanger and put on. Because they are membership organizations, labor leaders in their normal world representing workers who are their members are also always running for office as politicians in their own right. Most of the …
Category: ACORN
Community Organizations and Unions are Key to Upward Mobility
New Orleans Sometimes at ACORN’s annual legislative conferences in Washington, DC, I would be just in and out, but one time I overlapped a contentious session between Harvard’s Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame and ACORN leaders and members. The members were arguing that their experience with ACORN and their local community organizations in their …
Social Leftists and Other Bogeymen Are Rampaging the Country
New Orleans There are a lot of things that conservatives are worried about these days, and it turns out the list is unimaginably long. It’s not just whether or not uppity abortion crazed family-hating women, same-sexers, Mexicans, African-Americans, and anyone with a tan or wearing an ACORN button might in some sneaky way take over …