Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their staff at Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, it was only a matter of time that we stopped talking about Citizen …
Tag: ACORN
New Issa Report, Too Many Corps
New Orleans Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the ranking Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Governmental Reform and Oversight. Wanting to make a splash and get in the press at the annual gathering of the right wing at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Issa seems to have come up with a 60+ page …
ACORN Scammer Goes Down
New Orleans Thanks goodness I got home in time for this. James O’Keefe (the 3rd!) was in New Orleans last week to speak to a far right group of business types pulled together by the Pelican Institute. We had seen the notices. I was going to be in Honduras, but tried to talk people into …