Time Running Out for Bernie to Make a Deal

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      Depending on how you look at it, one of the assets – or liabilities – of being an organizer for over fifty years, is that in the immortal words of the old country and western song, you know “when to hold ‘em, and when …

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Today, Political Office is No Country for Billionaires

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans         Politics is drowning in money or, more accurately, money is drowning politics.  Estimates for the campaign for President now run in the billions.  There is every indication that future campaigns will be even more expensive. In the Democratic primary we have just witnessed …

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Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda Elizabeth Warren

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        I’m a huge fan of Elizabeth Warren.  I’ve read her books.  I appreciate her candor and convictions.  We all owe her thanks for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, no matter what the Supreme Court says.  We owe her thanks for many things in the …

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