New Orleans The last race of the USA’s mid-term elections is winding to a close in Louisiana. Mary Landrieu has been a US Senator for three terms totaling 18 years. We have a sign for her in our front yard as do several of our neighbors. Sometime during Thanksgiving week, I will go vote …
Category: National Politics
White People Power
New Orleans Reading the papers this morning, I could see the future, and it was very scary! The New York Times was speculating in the wake of the Republicans beat down of the Democrats in the midterm elections about where the Republicans might find a path to victory at the presidential level that has seemed …
Politics are Local, but Impact is National
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wadesworld24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The old saw that “all politics are local,” has a lot of merit, but added up, the impact in national. That is alternately both a depressing and hopeful sign in the tea leaves still gathering from the midterm election. The Republicans took the Senate. Impossible …