New Orleans As I stepped off the plane from Washington the news was running in the concourse and WWL at Channel 4 was airing a large segment with Louisiana ACORN announcing that Buddy Caldwell, the newly elected Attorney General here, had just been graded an F on a survey and report card released nationally on …
Category: Personal Writings
Winking at Wal-Mart
Washington On the eve of the Wal-Mart annual meeting Michael Barbaro, the retail reporter for the Times, ran a piece that insinuated that Wal-Mart opponents were unilaterally disarming in their fight against Wal-Mart. I’ve gotten emails and calls from everywhere the upshot of which was: tell us there is no way this is true? …
Latin American Report
New Orleans Ercilia Sahores, ACORN Latin American Director, has another week working at headquarters before returning to Buenos Aires where she supervises our program in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. We took the opportunity of her visit to have her give a presentation to any interested staff on Friday evening as the day …