The folks over at the
Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina (CRA*NC) are known for taking the fight to the bad guys in very clever ways. When James Gilleran, the head of the
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) pushed through an anti-Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation recently in spite of the fact that public comments were overwhelmingly against the OTS proposal, (CRA*NC) began a campaign to send get well cards to Mr. Gilleran. Their reasoning was that if even the other three bank regulators thought the OTS proposal was out of line, the OTS must be sick and in need of some healing.
Out of some 4,200 public comments, over 4,000 opposed the OTS proposal and so groups like the National Community Reinvestment Coalition called for Gilleran's resignation, but (CRA*NC) has gone the political theatre route, delivering flowers and get well cards in the thousands to Mr. Gilleran's office. Now they are offering all of us in the blogosphere the opportunity to send an electronic get well card. All you need to do is follow the instructions here.
If you want to read further background on the OTS' gutting of the CRA regulation you can check out
this diary. And after you've done that go show Mr. Gilleran some electronic love.