New Orleans Max Allison, the political genius behind the almost forgotten, but still legendary, Congressman Wilbur Mills from Arkansas, used to talk about following “the equation.” The way that inputs of various kinds fit into the political calculus of running and winning. I found Bob Tucker, an equally legendary political operator in New Orleans, yesterday in …
Category: Community Organizing
Making Real Plans for New Orleans
Baton Rouge The highlight tapes for the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans would have Dorothy Stukes giving the survivors platform, Beulah Laboistrie’s closing remarks, walking into Annie Falls’ house in the 9th Ward, one of the members standing up to the architects and volunteering his house for the raising and reconstruction, and a dozen …
ACORN Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans
Baton Rouge The session opened with welcome and good manners from the ACORN leaders from New Orleans. Each one said where they lived in New Orleans, identifying their wards and their homes, and then said where they lived now in Baton Rouge, Kenner, New Iberia, Dallas, Little Rock, or Houston. There was good heart to the …