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 Now that the candidates for the US presidential election are no longer presumed, but set firmly in concrete, the fight will be ratcheting up to win voter support. Interestingly, in such a divided country with such well-known and established candidates, the undecided voters are likely few, making the nonvoters critical to the …
New Orleans Two weeks is a pretty good vacation in the real world, so I guess we should be happy that we got a brief break from screaming headlines about the dysfunction of the US House of Representatives, and it’s Republican majority’s constant contention and chaos. Unfortunately, here it comes again, with only …
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 …