New Orleans Councilman James Carter in my own home district was having a public hearing on a big development proposed in the next block from where I live. Someone had bought the old Frey’s hotdog plant and had in mind to build more than 100 units of wildly expensive condos on the space ranging in …
Category: ACORN
Edwards at $9.50 per Hour
Philadelphia Senator John Edwards had the last shot at the 1000 ACORN members that had been driving all morning in many cases, fed a box lunch, and then put through the paces on one meeting after another for more than 4 1/2 hours. He was a friend, and he knew it. He had been in …
Kucinich and the War
Philadelphia Congressman Dennis Kucinich is a loud shouting, rip roaring rabble rouser of a fella. He starts talking and can’t hardly stop himself and next thing you know he’s three-quarters of a way into a stemwinder, and Katie bar the door until the wind goes by or blows it down. Half of the time he …