Minneapolis The day kicked off for the Association Board with an action joining Minnesota ACORN members at the trashed out and abandoned Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul, demanding the Governor sign the foreclosure protection bill we had helped pass in the legislature. No sooner than the board was tucking into some famous spaghetti …
Category: Personal Writings
Robber Barons
Minneapolis The rest of us may be fighting off the recession, foreclosures, or globally just trying to afford food and fuel at any price, but the list came out the other day of the paydays for big hedge fund operators and we now may be close to a new understanding of “robber barons.” The top …
Help on Foreclosures
Minneapolis ACORN has been going hammer and tong with subprime companies, mortgage servicers, banks, securitizers, and everyone in between for the last 18 months. We have been Cassandra yelling about the coming doom that everyone denied until finally conceding that 3.5M households are in danger of foreclosures. The Treasury Department and the industry have …