Giles Fundraising Scam

ACORN Personal Writings

New Orleans Hannah Giles, the “ho” in the ACORN video stings last fall is reportedly sending out direct mail fundraising appeals asking for $35 to $5000 to defend her against the so-called ACORN lawsuits against she and the discredited James O’Keefe, the pimp in that series.  I wonder if this is a scam? She and …

Continue Reading

O’Keefe Pro and Con

ACORN Citizen Wealth

New Orleans What’s a guy to do?  Can’t make people happy for sure!  My conservative comrades in the blogosphere are dividing sharply on the positions I have taken on James O’Keefe III and he and his rightwing dunderkind and their telephone bungle up at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office.  I have pretty much come down on …

Continue Reading

Alinsky and the Rightists

ACORN Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Organizer Training Organizing

New Orleans Like a bad penny, it pops up again that rightwing activists like the Landrieu bungling James O’Keefe have spent hours poring through Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals for tips as if it were a “how to” manual.  I’m constantly surprised to get flaming emails quoting one of Saul’s rules or another and how …

Continue Reading