Registration Down, Lower Income Votes Out
Phoenix Registration Down, Lower Income Votes Out Phoenix We did the first direct action with Arizona Advocates & Actions yesterday as 20 Bank of America mortgage holders demanded that their...
View ArticlePuppy Love for the Big Dawg, Clinton
Bill Clinton Urged Florida Democrat to Quit Bid Phoenix I’m pretty sure either Mexico billionaire Carlos Slim didn’t make his contribution this year to the Clinton Foundation Global Initiative and...
View ArticleTea Party, Me Party, More Parties
New Orleans One of the post-lecture questions from a perceptive Lafayette College student that has stuck with me in the last couple of days, began with a phrase something like, “Since you seem...
View ArticleParty, Party, Party: Libs, Labor, and No Label
New Orleans During the World Series we finally learned something interesting about Barbara Bush that wasn’t horrific. It turns out she knows how to keep the box score on a game. While the Georges...
View ArticleRepublican Presidential Candidates Houses: Bad Taste Past the Boundaries
New Orleans Republicans, Democrats, or whatever, when something is way, way over the line, it should be roundly understood as out of bounds. A piece in the New York Times...
View ArticleMidterms Looking Very Bad
Nate Silver New Orleans About the best thing that Democrats can say these days is that November is still seven months away and that anything can happen in politics in that time. True that, but...
View ArticleMaybe the Republicans Don’t Want to Run the Country, Just the States?
Doug Mills/The New York Times New Orleans President Obama predictably in his last State of the Union address made the case for unity, change, and a new politics. Makes sense. For the Democrats there...
View ArticleCould be a Smart Move on Trump’s Part
Houston You have to give the devil’s his due. For a change rather than being just crazy, President Trump may have been crazy like a fox. The pundits seem not to know what to make of Trump’s shuffle...
View ArticleContradictory Readings in the Tea Leaves
Sheridan It’s a tough time to be a commentator, pundit, or general political wizard. It must be like walking a tightrope. They know it’s scary when they start walking the wire and have to...
View ArticleHillary for President is Fake News
New Orleans Just when Halloween was over, we have to live through another ghost story. As a distraction, some publicity hounds are drooling over speculation that Hillary Clinton could run for...
View ArticleThere was a Blue Wave
slate.com New Orleans With the midterm election fading into the rearview mirror, somehow it is becoming clearer than it was the morning after the votes were counted. What began as a significant,...
View ArticleDo the Democrats Want the Missing Voters?
Non voters New Orleans A nonpartisan research organization found that 37% of nonvoters in the midterms were 18 to 29 years old compared with just 12% of those who voted. More than half of the...
View ArticleDems Bid $3.5 Trillion on Budget Play
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CORR5579.-Dems-Bid-3.5-Trillion-on-Budget-Play-1.mp3 July 14, 2021 New Orleans Senate Democrats put a new ante on the table in the high...
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