Nashville We met my old friend and frequent co-conspirator, Joel Solomon, at the Frothy Monkey (how about that for a name!) a couple of blocks from his infrequent office in his old hometown of Nashville. Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s Southern Regional Director was with me, and our mission was to get sage advice from Joel that …
Category: ACORN
Early Report on Minimum Wage Votes
Cleveland The ACORN National Board met in Ohio anxiously to hear the report on the prospects for the four state initiatives to raise the minimum wage that ACORN has supported and carried forward in Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio. Marty Keith, the chair of Ohio ACORN, Zach Polett, the ACORN National Political Director, and the …
Getting the Lead Out
Cleveland The ACORN National Board met for its fall meeting in Cleveland in order to be close to the fight to raise the minimum wage in Ohio from $5.15 per hour to $6.85 per hour. But, before that the leadership had a number of other pieces of business. One had the top elected leaders continuing …