Bristol After 7 hours with our first organizing committee introduction with leadership and organizer training workshop at the Easton Community Centre in Bristol, it’s fair to say that we’re on our way and off to a great start. People were both serious and excited, and hunkered down to the tasks before them with another meeting …
Category: ACORN
Political Ground Game in Ascendancy as Simple Math Triumphs with Big Data
New Orleans What goes around, comes around, it seems, if you keep around long enough. Reading about cutting edge political strategies, like the “Bannock Street project,” reminds me of frequent late discussions at the regular Wednesday night staff meetings of ACORN in Little Rock 40 years ago as we would debate whether to spend all of …
More ACORN Bans in New Congressional Budget
New Orleans Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Paul Ryan are once again accepting some praise at coming to a deal of sorts on the $1.1 Trillion US budget for this fiscal year without the customary drama and contention. Speaker Boehner was strutting around at having pushed back the far right, never compromise, Tea Party contingent …