Make mine a decaf with half and half.
Posted on 08/28/2011 8:01:27 PM PDT by SoonerStorm09
As Wade Rathke, the New Orleans-born community organizer who founded ACORN, prepared to turn 63 this month, he was at a crossroads. The U.S. branch of the activist organization he turned into a powerhouse and a punching bag for the political right was dead, a victim of internal and external strife.
Although Rathke has kept busy traveling to the 12 countries that are partners in ACORN International, he wanted something that would let him do some organizing in New Orleans.
So he bought a coffee shop.
It isn't just any coffee shop. It is the Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, a two-story Ponce de Leon Street establishment whose name is a play on the name of the nearby racetrack.
Though coffee shops have become synonymous with bourgeois excess, the Fair Grinds is in some ways a natural place for a veteran rabble-rouser to land. The ground-floor interior, where flecks of paint peel off the dark-green beaded-pine walls, looks like one of the last outposts of the 1960s, with fliers touting yoga, concerts and meditation groups.
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Wanna bet that it is a coffee shop spelled “money laundering front”?
Paint peeling off the walls?
Sounds like a health hazard to me.
That and an illegal alien terrorist front.
Wow, Rathke paid $500K for the building. Must be quite an extortionist.
Crime pays if you are a leftist.
I can’t believe that place gets 300 customers a day.
Color me cynical, I am just waiting for him to start selling “hyponic accessories” for your growing needs... It will be selling more than coffee before you know it....
Would like to see some undercover video tape from that place......My guess is this will be the training ground for the Obama followers to learn how to commit voter fraud and get in peoples faces to intimidate Republican voters! Look for more Black Panther people at polling places...
You bet. Wayne Dip you know what should be in a prison cell.
Make mine a decaf with half and half.
Is this a Union Shop?
Rathke founded ACORN *and* SEIU, so odds are...
I give a crap about this political, radical hack how? =.=
Lead-based paint I'll wager.
I spit in your low-fat mocha frappachino latte grande!...Ptuey!
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