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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".

Category: Personal Writings

Countrywide Agreement

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings February 12, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     After a grueling process of many meetings over months ACORN leaders and Countrywide executives finally came to an agreement on “best practices” that was not everything we might have hoped for, but was such an advance over the empty promises of the Bush-Paulson initiative that it paled in comparison. Additionally since Countrywide …

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Quick Vote on Supers

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings February 11, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     Ok, you are probably sick of my obsession about elites determining who should be the Democratic nominee, so I’ll try to rein myself in with one more word about all of this…. This morning there was a “quick vote” on CNN. More than 60% believe that super delegates should be bound by …

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Even More on Counting

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings February 11, 2008 by wade

New Orleans        This is all becoming wild!     Obama took three states yesterday by surprising margins, including the battleground of Washington and Louisiana where I got to vote and therefore raise my voice.  Our family of four seems to have somehow managed to vote for three different candidates on the Democratic side, which isn’t …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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