Two weeks ago, a leaked secret memo written by a Republican lobbying firm, Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, outlined an $850,000 plan for the American Bankers Association (ABA) to combat the growing resonance of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s message ...
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Today, Politico Influence reports that one of the four masterminds of the proposed smear campaign, Republican lobbyist Sam Gelduldig, will be co-hosting a Young Professionals for Mitt Romney fundraiser in Washington D.C on December 14.
Mastermind of $850000 Smear Campaign Against Occupy Wall Street co-hosting Mitt Romney Fundraiser
And Mr. Gelduldig has an interesting resume.
Before becoming a lobbyist Geduldig was a top adviser to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). This year, Geduldig has lobbied on behalf of various finance industry clients, including the ABA, Financial Services Roundtable, Financial Services Forum, MasterCard, American Insurance Association, and Koch Industries (which engages in significant commodities trading activities).
I diaried earlier this month that the Koch brothers are prepared to spend $100M each to defeat Obama. To put this in terms Republicans can understand easily, if a high priced rent boy or rent girl costs $10,000, then $100,000,000.00 is enough to hire such a person for 10,000 sessions - so the Kochs are giving up 27.38 years of daily sex in order to defeat Obama. And now we find that Koch lobbyists are crafting campaigns to smear OWS and raising money for Mitt Romney.
I know that Occupy Wall Street is not fond of Obama. I know there are good reasons for that.
I also observe that no one drops this sort of money opposing Obama unless Obama is very much in their way. So however bad you feel Obama is - however much you may feel he serves the 1% - the two most politically influential 1%ers in the country continue to tell you over and over that they don't feel served very well. And if they get their candidate in the White House, you will wish daily for 4 years that Obama had won instead.