OWS - A Peek Behind the Curtain

[Joe Allonby]

She's up against a stuffed suit with a phony narrative.


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Considering what elizabeth warren is up against in Massachusetts I'm not
> surprised.
>
> Rich
>
> On Monday, November 21, 2011, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/a_peek_behind_the_curtain033610.php
>>
>> Chris and his team obtained a strategy memo from the D.C. corporate
>> lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig Cranford (CLGC), led in part by
>> former aides to House Speaker John Boehner. The document, prepared for
>> the American Bankers Association, a firm client, outlines the kind of
>> coordinated pushback industry lobbyists have in mind in response to
>> the Occupy movement.
>>
>> It’s an amazing peek behind the curtain. The bank lobbyists make clear
>> that they fear the Occupy protests, believe Democratic gains in 2012
>> would undermine financial industry power, and would like to invest
>> heavily in a media/opposition-research offensive that would try to
>> discredit both Occupy activists and any Democratic officials who
>> express any sympathy for the movement’s goals.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Indeed, the memo talks openly about aggressive warning shots at
>> progressive Dems — most notably, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) — as a
>> way of intimidating other Democratic lawmakers from aligning
>> themselves in any way with Occupy priorities.
>>
>> Perhaps most amusingly, the CLGC memo alludes to the fact that the
>> bankers would rely on allied surrogates to launch attacks, since no
>> one likes the bankers themselves.
>>
>> Chris explained towards the end of the segment:
>>
>> “What’s contained in this short memo are all the most craven, corrupt,
>> and insidious forces of the status quo coming together to squash
>> Occupy. In fact, the document represents just about everything wrong
>> with America in four short pages.
>>
>> “We have a lobbying firm whose web page glowingly advertises that Sam
>> Geduldig, a former Boehner staffer, ‘knows how to kill legislative
>> threats to his clients.’ Drawing up a battle plan for the financial
>> and its 1% members to use their deep pockets to attack the occupy
>> movement and protect the banks’ financial interests by creating
>> ‘political cover’ for bank-friendly policies.
>>