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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: Politics

The Predictable Fall of Jim Jordan’s Speaker Dreams

Politicians Politics October 22, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            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 …

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The Case of the Mobile Lectern

Arkansas Politics October 12, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            New Orleans      This is juicy!  Where’s Sherlock Holmes when we need him?  We have a case dripping with irony.  A politician who was a former press secretary for the president who was notoriously hostile to the press, calling an almost record low number of press conferences from the lectern of the White House …

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Speaker, Speaker, Who Wants to be Speaker?

Future Politics United States October 10, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            New Orleans      Watching the machinations of the US House of Representatives as the followers try to elect a leader as Speaker is better than a soap opera and almost includes the same themes, minus the sexual innuendos so common to that genre.  The Republicans are not a gang that can’t shoot straight.  They …

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