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".
New Orleans This isn’t a race among the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, it’s a some kind of a bad survival television reality show. The big difference is that the subtitle on this show would be: Survival of the Unfittest. We’re watching such a downhill slide that we seem to …
Marble Falls You could see this coming from miles away, as I had predicted in several irresistible “I told you so” moments as hardline, right wing conservative Ohio Republican Jim Jordan’s campaign for Speaker of the US House of Representatives crashed and then burned. In the end, it wasn’t even close, but was …
New Orleans I warned you. I’m watching the Game of Thrones reality show in Washington, DC, in the House of Representatives on full alert. I had been honest, that if it played out as it looked to me in wild, cheap seat speculation, I was going to be all about “I told you …