Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumIf there is a reason to not vote for Hillary. Perhaps the first reason?
Hillary Rodham and the fight against a new Little Rock organization called ACORN. Form the archives of Little Rock community radio KABF founded by Little Rock based ACORN.
Similar petitions were filed by ACORN members in Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluff, but due to legal challenges and adverse court decisions blocking the vote, only the Little Rock measure was approved for the ballot. ACORN waged an extensive campaign for approval that involved going door-to-door throughout eastern, central and southwestern Little Rock. In the last few weeks of the campaign, the utility company, particularly Arkansas Power & Light (AP&L), now Entergy, dumped tens of thousands of dollars in advertisements on television and radio in an effort to have voters reject the initiative. Despite everything, ACORN won the election with voters approving lifeline rates by a significant majority. Later court challenges by AP&L and a rural electric cooperative claimed that the cooperative had some dozen or so customers within Little Rock city limits and no large customers, whose rates would increase to compensate for the equalizing of rates which established lifeline rates, thereby making it confiscatory. The case for the utilities was famously handled by Webb Hubbell, who later became Mayor of Little Rock, and Hilary Rodham, who later as Hilary Rodham Clinton, became a United States Senator from New York, Secretary of State, and a candidate for President in addition to being First Lady while Bill Clinton was President of the United States.
ACORN in analyzing its experience with the lifeline elections in Arkansas came to the conclusion that it would never have the money to allow its members to have the kind of media voice that money had bought the utilities with a membership of lower income families. On the other hand in extensive conversations with Lorenzo Milam became convinced that there might be accessible opportunities to create a voice of the people in noncommercial, community radio. Milam, often called the father of community radio at that time was establishing a 100,000 watt station in Dallas called KCHU that was working with the Dallas chapter of ACORN. Discussions between Milam and the founder and chief organizer of ACORN, Wade Rathke, led in subsequent years to ACORN helping found the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM) which resuscitated a construction permit in Tampa to put WMNF on the air, reorganizing KCHU after it went dark with money and internal problems through the Agape Foundation and what is now, KNON in Dallas, and establishing the Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation (ABF) which applied for a frequency of 100,000 watts, based in Little Rock.
http://www.kabf.org/?page_id=170
And a great radio station KABF.ORG
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Ooops, that should be "sticking it to" unless the little guy is 5'7" Lloyd Blankfein.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)We only allow mindless fawning praise of the Tapioca Queen.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)Sorry, didn't get the reference.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Good as a thickening agent, but little else. Definitely never the main course.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)I thought it was a reference to one of her many scandals, real or imagined, that I'd somehow missed. I dunno, she may seem bland and unexciting to us, but she certainly excites Republicans, and not in a good way.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)It makes a great summertime refreshing light pudding.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)And for all sincere tapioca pudding lovers I am truly sorry. Perhaps if I compared her to Brussels sprouts...
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)But he would never vote for Hillary.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Her whole history is baggage...and that's why I don't trust her.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)The Bourgeoisie get paid well to keep We, the Proles at bay. Throwing
us an occasional bone keeps the message muddled. We should not hire
any politician that accepts Corporate money. They should all dare to be
Bernie.