WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans Eating breakfast in Santa Fe with a colleague recently, he brought up the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings into the qualifications of Judge Jackson to become the first black woman justice of the US Supreme Court. Jumping from town to town in New Mexico, I could honestly say, I wasn’t up …
New Orleans The Louisiana legislature joined the chorus and declared, Equal Pay Day. The day, acknowledged by some, notes the number of days in the year that it has taken women to do the work necessary to be paid the same as men. Irony is unknown to most legislators, but, trust me on …
Marble Falls Finally! Who says that the US Congress can’t agree on anything? The Senate has now unanimously passed legislation that members of the Supreme Court and all federal judges will have post their stock trades and financial holdings in real time. Notice, I said unanimously. In December, the House of Representatives had …