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Living like Gordon Gekko! Wall Street protesters Occupy luxurious five star hotel
The London Daily Mail ^ | November 20, 2011 | Hannah Roberts

Posted on 11/20/2011 8:38:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

His rank and file comrades have been toughing it out in squalid tents and church basements.

But a leading figure of the Occupy Wall Street movement, who moonlights as a businessman, has eschewed the campfire comradeship for a room at a fashionable five star hotel.

Peter Dutro, one of the members of elite finance committee, checked into the sumptuous W Hotel Downtown.

The $700-per-night hotel, with 350-count Egyptian cotton sheets, also hosted Deloitte analyst Brad Spitzer, who covertly took part in protests while on a work trip from California, the New York Post reported.

Spitzer said: 'I’m staying here for work. I do finance, but I support it still.

He added: 'Tents are not for me'.

Spitzer, 24, also offered other demonstrators respite from the weather in his decadent surroundings, requesting a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, according to the Post....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astroturf; hypocrites; newyork; occupy; occupywallstreet
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To: Ann Archy; 2ndDivisionVet

You are both f’ing class warfare idiots who are acting like petulant children on FR...Jerseyhighlander

Instead of exposing it Libertarian mush heads by denying what’s occuring like our friend here think they can take over the OWS movement and convert it to their use..When the opposite is happening. The Dema-Coms are using Ron Paul and his band of “Paulistas” to legitimize their movement. Once the Paulistas set up any kind of counter movement violence is going to occur which plays right into the Dema-Coms hands. These guys (unions) play for keeps they will not only bust windows they’ll bust heads...and MSM won’t print or say a word....


21 posted on 11/22/2011 2:49:08 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Moses ..A nick name II received as a kid for warning another -It's a sin to tell a lie")
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