Washington I’ve often told this story. It’s about a big, rookie mistake I made as a green organizer of 20 years old trying to figure out how to be head organizer of Massachusetts Welfare Rights when total craziness broke out between two contending groups of leadership. Because of some idealistically pure view of staff and …
Category: ACORN
Getting Leveraged on Heath Care
Washington Everywhere I go in Washington, just like the rest of the country, but more intensely, the discussion is about health care reform and whether there’s any chance of pulling through anything at this point that would really be reform. Disturbingly, it seems the White House and the Congressional leadership is getting leveraged by narrow …
Barney and Our Total Confusion
Austin Ok, I stand down. I can’t figure out where Barney Frank wants to be counted from day to day. Seems Fox News touched base with Congressman Frank, and he told them, “no” he would have been part of the dogpile votes against ACORN. The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund chortled about that and was …