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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

Dancing in the Streets of New Orleans

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings February 8, 2010 by wade

New Orleans The fireworks starting going off during the last minute of play.  It was clear.  The impossible was now possible.  Hell had frozen over.  Snow was certain for July.  The Saints had won the Super Bowl! Driving down the streets in the neighborhoods was hard.  There was too much dancing in the streets.  Second …

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O’Keefe Not Sorry Yet

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings January 30, 2010February 1, 2010 by wade

New Orleans We are finally pulling all of the pretense and fiction out of the Landrieu office bungling scandal. Andrew Breitbrat and his www.biggovernment.com site stopped pretending that James O’Keefe, bungler-in-charge, was not his boy, and realized that he needed to stop shouting and start ‘splaining. The result was a curious release on the biggov …

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Clown Defense for Watergate Junior

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings January 29, 2010January 29, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Everyone else on the right, including his old partner-in-crime from the ACORN stings has thrown him under the bus, except Andrew Brietbart, James O’Keefe’s employer and prime contractor.  I was wrong about Briethart’s dancing, since he seems to be more committed to screaming it seems. The twist from both Briethart and some of …

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