OWS - A Peek Behind the Curtain

[David Morris]

I'll be very disappointed w/ Massachusetts if she doesn't win.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> She's up against a stuffed suit with a phony narrative.
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> 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.
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>> Rich
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>> 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.
>>>
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