New Orleans There was a “gee-whiz” report from Iowa that Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, running for President as a Democrat, was drawing huge crowds in this early primary state, out pacing all other candidates from either party. He saw 700 in Davenport, one of the larger cities in Iowa. He drew 300 …
Category: National Politics
Black Conservatives Fund: ACORN “Ghostbusters!”
New Orleans Every once in a while something comes over the transom that is so wildly ridiculous, it approaches the sublime. A longtime colleague, Mike Stagg, now living and working in the Lafayette area, forwarded me a link to a piece run by the TPM website which occasionally monitors weird and wacky rightwing solicitations. This …
Lessons from Greece, Spain, and Chicago for Progressives
New Orleans Recently Dan Cantor, the long-time head of the Working Families Party of New York and now director of their multi-state efforts to create a progressive alternative party, co-authored a piece that ran in the publication, In These Times, about lessons we could learn from the electoral victories of Syriza in Greece and the …