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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".

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Tragic, Crushing, Head Scratching Over Massacre of Connecticut Children

Ideas and Issues December 16, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   We were in Boston and the videographer kept looking at his phone while filming and even leaving the room.  At the early afternoon break I told him we were going off the record for a couple of hours.  “Good,” he said, “I need to leave for Connecticut, have you heard what has happened there.”  …

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Many Republican Ghostbusters Still Believe ACORN Stole this Election, Too!

ACORN Voting Rights December 5, 2012 by digital

Quito      First there was a Facebook posting to me that I thought was a joke, complete with a picture of James O’Keefe in his racist pimp-master fur suit.  But, then the emails started coming in, and it was increasingly clear, that, yes, Virginia, there may not be a Santa Claus, but according to the weird …

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Thanks, General, for Making us All Hacked Off!

Ideas and Issues November 17, 2012November 17, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   I can’t stop reading these articles about ex-CIA spy chief, General David Petraeus, not because of the affair, which seems so mundane that you wonder what came over his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to send anonymous email bombs to potential rivals, given how buttoned down these two were.  What is titillating about …

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