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Update: 12/7/08: Anh “Joseph” Cao (Republican) won. Malik Rahim got at least 3%. The update on Wilderside is: here.
neworleans: The Times Pic playing dirty politics
In the years following the collapse of the federal levees after Hurricane Katrina, activist Malik Rahim was busy organizing one of the most influential recovery organizations in the Gulf South. The organization he founded and currently leads, Common Ground Collective, was gutting houses and providing medical and legal services to tens of thousands of New Orleans residents.
His work was so prolific that it was featured on 60 minutes, ABC News, Democracy Now!, and a host of other shows.
“I’m from New Orleans, and I stayed here after the flood to serve my community, at a time when neglect from the federal government was as chilling as it was apparent,” said Rahim.
Even the local paper in New Orleans the Times-Picayune featured him in an article after the storm, stating that his work was “so far-reaching that it has brought over 10,000 volunteers to New Orleans since the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.”
But the media coverage ended once he decided to run for office this fall.
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