Lobbying firm memo to their Wall St clients about the Occupy Wall St movement
By ladybugmagic
@ladybugmagic (3978)
United States
November 19, 2011 1:01am CST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/lobbying-firm-occupy-wall-street_n_1102310.html
The key point:
"Leading Democratic party strategists have begun to openly discuss the benefits of embracing the growing and increasingly organized Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement to prevent Republican gains in Congress and the White House next year. We have seen this process of adopting extreme positions and movements to increase base voter turnout, including in the 2005-2006 immigration debate. This would mean more than just short-term discomfort for Wall Street firms. If vilifying the leading companies of this sector is allowed to become an unchallenged centerpiece of a coordinated Democratic campaign, it has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.
It shouldn't be surprising that the Democratic party or even President Obama's re-election team would campaign against Wall Street in this cycle. However the bigger concern should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies -- and might start running against them too."
I guess OWS is getting some attention.
1 response
@gladys46 (1205)
• United States
19 Nov 11
Interesting is that this "memo" comes from the lobby firm of a former staff member of republican Majority Leader, John Boehner! The entrenched GOP establishment such as Newt GingRICH works its policy tricks ... it goes on and on "against" yes 99% of "us" !
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