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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

Clinton’s Wet Kiss

ACORN Personal Writings Rebuild New Orleans September 16, 2007 by wade

Denver Seeing President Clinton as he walked up to speak last spring at the Anniversary banquet at Citigroup for New York ACORN, he told me that he had given ACORN in his inimitable words, ” a big wet kiss” in the book he was currently finishing. Now that Bill Clinton’s Giving: How Each of Us …

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New Money

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings September 15, 2007 by wade

Denver        As something of a post-Katrina tradition begun when I was trapped here in Denver after Katrina, I have a meal of buffalo washed down by a Flat Tire beer after our staff-based management council meetings that review policy twice a year in New York in the spring and Denver in the fall.  This …

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Edwards Does Right

Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings September 14, 2007 by wade

Denver        A million years ago when we lived in Arkansas, we read by choice or compulsion a lot about the Arkansas Razorbacks football team.  It was inescapable.  Even leaving Arkansas, news would drift by and imprint from those days.  The well-known and voluble coach of the team at one point was Lou Holtz, who …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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