Forum Post: turn to tv msnbc right now 7:43 am 11/19
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 7:46 a.m. EST by bensdad
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gaddell.. A major lobbying co - who worked for boehner issued a detailed proposal to the american bankers association to attack OWS
Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:27 AM EST
In case you caught the Huffington Post story about our exclusive this morning, you should know that they only had two paragraphs of a four-page memo.
We'll be posting the full memo today after the program so you can see it for yourselves, but we can tell you now that it's a well-known Washington lobbyist firm, Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, pitching an $850,000 plan to one of its Wall Streets clients...for punishing politicians who might express sympathy for Occupy Wall Street.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is specifically singled out for targeting, and he'll respond to this story on tomorrow's edition of Up. In the meantime, we're going to try to keep track of where and how this story gets picked up, so please give us a shout if you see it making the rounds...
Jonathan Larsen is the executive producer of Up w/ Chris Hayes. You can follow him on Twitter @JTLarsen.
4 page memo DETAILS: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/
Huffpo posted part of the memo already:
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.
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/ will have a copy of the four page map of how they propose to wreck OWS after 9AM today
Thank you! I heard the "coming attractions" teaser for this last night!