By October 29, 2011
Wall Street has come to symbolize corporate greed. But the fat cats of Wall Street are not going to change their greedy ways. Why should they? They have had their way for far too long. And corporate executives don’t embarrass easily. Clearly, government action is needed.
Occupy Wall Street and its local offsprings might consider intervening in political campaigns. Presidential primaries will begin early next year, with the Republican National Convention on August 27 and the Democratic National convention on September 1. Occupy Wall Street might consider dogging these presidential primaries, House and Senate campaigns, and conventions, to demand the candidates address America’s income inequities and corporate greed. What if at every campaign stop, a political candidate was confronted by Occupy Wall Street members demanding what the candidate was going to do about reigning in Wall Street and about America’s income inequities? The confrontations would let candidates know that failure to address protestors’ concerns will have adverse consequences in future elections.
The Hunger Site
November 1, 2011 at 7:41 am
@Ann. Reprimand acknowledged. Yeah I know I’m not always ‘politically correct’ but I’m still haunted by a photo of her that I have in my files and keep meaning to have blown up for a Halloween mask.
October 31, 2011 at 4:23 pm
It was 2008, it was the only vote that then Senator Obama came back from the campaign trail to vote for. You can find it at google news.
October 31, 2011 at 1:49 pm
@Pat: Agree on everything but the facelift crack.
@Gena: Yes the bailout, but wasn’t that 2009.
Re banks, here’s my Saturday KPFA News about San Francisco’s banker, B of A, and last Tuesday’s municipal bank hearing at City Hall: http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/b-of-as-last-san-francisco-stand-ed-lee.
October 30, 2011 at 4:17 pm
@Gena. She has based her whole sordid political career on being one of the first local pols to stand up and speak out on the ‘mysterious gay disease’, for which she deserves recognition. Virtually everything she has done since has become increasingly focused on advancing her own political career and power; feathering her own nest; maintaining the ‘status quo’ and manipulation of SF politics by the ‘Pac Heights Mafia’. She is the SF poster girl for the 1%, though without another facelift she could not be the centrefold.
October 30, 2011 at 2:19 pm
It wouldn’t be so bad if Pelosi had not voted for the bank-bailout in 2008.
October 30, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Pelosi is the poster girl for the 1%; the Pac Heights Mafia; and the “criminal conspiracy that controls San Francisco”.(thanks to Paul Currier for this zinger)
AVALOS FOR MAYOR.
DUMP MR ED.
BAUM v PELOSI (next time)
This time, #2 & #3, Adachi, Yee, vote strategically.
October 30, 2011 at 7:46 am
During a recent press conference, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. “God bless them,” Pelosi said, “for their spontaneity. It’s independent … it’s young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused. And it’s going to be effective.” And she further said, “The message of the protesters is a message for the establishment everyplace,” said the House Democrats’ leader. “No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street.” Her statement sounds more like an endorsement, rather than an attempt to “co-opt” the movement. Is her endorsement really a bad thing?
October 29, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Nancy Pelosi has already tried to co-opt the Occupy Movement into Democratic Congressional races.