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There are also half a dozen federal, state and local departments with the authority to kick those clowns out of Zucotti park but magically nothing is happening.

I can’t begin to imagine the effect this is having with the voters.

Not just on the national level but on the local even more. Can’t you just imagine the electoral massacre that is going to occur in NYC come next November?

All those sympathetic radical-embracing mayors and city councilmembers must be beginning to wonder what sort of price THEY are going to pay for indulging these smelly brats at the expense of their own constituents.

Even those cocktail-party liberal “one-percenters” who live in lower Manhattan may just fail to come up with cash and support for the local government types who let the “occupiers” fling poo at their doormen and keep them up nights with their drumming.

There are also half a dozen federal, state and local departments with the authority to kick those clowns out of Zucotti park but magically nothing is happening.

Sometimes magic is not as magical as other times....

Who Is John Zuccotti and Why Was His Park Picked for Occupy Wall Street? (theblaze.com)

Short version:

The 74-year-old Zuccotti is co-chairman of the board of the $3.2 billion dollar Brookfield Properties, a multi-billion dollar real estate development firm.

Mr. Zuccotti has longstanding ties to parks and city government as 40 years ago he was a paid, part-time member of the city planning commission and in the mid-1970s was appointed deputy mayor of New York City.

Additionally, Brookfield Properties has links to city government — Diana Taylor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s frequent companion, sits on the Brookfield Board of Directors co-chaired by Zuccotti. (To be fair and accurate, Ms. Taylor is more than just the mayor’s girlfriend. She happens to be an accomplished businessperson with an impressive resume that includes high-ranking positions in banking and a large utility company.)

And then there are the financial connections between Brookfield Properties and the Obama Administration.

The Union Leader of New Hampshire reported that the Obama administration has backed a local wind farm (tied to Brookfield) with taxpayer dollars. The title of the story, “A NH Solyndra? Wind farm gets fed loan” leads one to believe that the project is probably on shaky financial footing. The Union Leader connects the dots from the White House to Brookfield and then, in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy, questions the financial wisdom of this loan.

Why would a company created by a $3.2 billion company and backed by a $2.7 billion private fund need federal loan guarantees? That would be an important question at any time, but it is more pertinent after the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a solar-panel maker that got a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Obama administration last year.