New Orleans A letter was faxed in the afternoon from Senator Charles Grassley, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, to ACORN’s President Maude Hurd. It was 8 pages in length with about 60 questions asking for a world of information (a list of all ACORN employees, a list of all ACORN funders, and on and …
Category: ACORN
Low Wage Worker Battlegrounds
New Orleans We are on the countdown now. Having toiled in the vineyards almost two years in the wake of the surprising statewide minimum wage increase victory in Florida in 2004, we are now almost to “raise day” for low wage workers on November 7th in Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri. Our avowed enemies even …
Derailing Planning in New Orleans
New Orleans Talking about “planning” in New Orleans after the storm has become an oxymoron. We are now 13 1/2 months after the storm and there is still nothing that anyone would concede is a plan for rebuilding the city that has everyone’s agreement. Mayor Nagin’s Cannizaro committee in the beginning turned the job of …