Lima Visiting with our great organizing staff over the weekend and today in our office in Lima is always an exhilarating experience with a lot of catch-up on problems both big and small. Invariably, the conversation led to the upcoming national elections. Somehow President Toledo against all odds has survived with popularity often moving towards …
Category: ACORN
Bill’s 1st Grant
New Orleans A press conference last Friday in Harlem marked a good milestone. Former President Bill Clinton joined with Maude Hurd, ACORN’s President, and a dozen Katrina survivors working with ACORN in New York City, and announced the first grant of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation would be $250,000 to ACORN. The grant was to …
The Capitol by Storm
Washington Sometimes it is the little things that make a difference, and so it seemed on Thursday morning as Mary Howard, a long-time Louisiana member, dominated the front-page of the Washington Post with her red t-shirt and a phalanx of members marching behind her as the ACORN members from Katrina came from the Capitol to …