Wall Street Protesters Confront Bloomberg While He Dines at Top Restaurant, Leaves by Back Door

[Hissyspit]

Source: Daily Mail

Wall Street protesters confront Bloomberg while he dines at top restaurant as dawn showdown looms over camp clean-up plans

Protesters attempted to deliver the mayor a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting Occupy Wall Street encampment

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 7:44 AM on 14th October 2011

Chanting 'Hell no! We won't go!' hundreds of demonstrators stormed Wall Street today to confront New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, vowing to defend their encampment in Zuccotti Park for a 28th day.

As he dined at downtown's posh Cipriani restaurant, having endorsed a 7am clean-up of the 'unsanitary' Occupy Wall Street encampment, protesters attempted to deliver the mayor a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting the their right to remain in the park. But the mayor refused to come out of the restaurant, instead making his exit out of a back door.

New York City officials earlier ordered Wall Street protesters to clear their sleeping bags and tarps from the park where they started a movement that has spread around the globe and forced CEOs and presidential candidates to take notice.

But demonstrators said they wouldn't be going anywhere on Friday morning, setting the stage for a showdown with police.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048754/NYC-Mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-orders-Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-clean-unsanitary-park.html

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Defiant: On day 27 of the Occupy Wall Street protest, protestors confront Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a gala dinner at Cipriani's on Wall Street chanting 'Hell No! We won't go!' J.B. Nicholas/Splash News




Divisive: Demonstrators have said they won't be going anywhere on Friday morning when Zuccotti Park is schedule to be cleaned, setting the stage for a showdown with police J.B. Nicholas/Splash News

[ixion]

1. scoundrels and cowards leave by the back door...

just sayin'...

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Love that To Do List.....

:evilgrin:

[Bozita]

12. +1

Love that top photo too!

[Odin2005]

14. Me too, LOL!

:D

[MilesColtrane]

3. Maybe he just had a meeting in the alley with Ralph Nader to explore...

a possible Presidential bid.

:shrug:

[No Elephants]

5. "Let's say a Bloomberg runs...."

“In area after area, you know, whether it’s consumer fairness, single payer health insurance, full medicare for all, for example, cracking down on corporate crime, a really new kind of tax system, the two parties are too hooked into the establishment, the corporate state that they can’t change. And so, if you ever put that agenda out in front of people it would be spectacular, especially if the candidate had enough money to reach those people. … Let’s say a Bloomberg runs, it would be a three way race in every sense of the term, because he could write a check for $500 million.”


Using Bloomberg as an example is not equivalent to drafting him for the Presidency, especially since Bloomberg had said a thousant times, and very publicly, that he (Bloomberg) has no intention of every running for the Presidency.

And then...

“I’d almost like to see anybody run, just to give the voters more choices. I’d like to see Bloomberg run, I’d like to see Jim Hightower run. I’d like to see Bill McKibben run, I’d like to see the champion of single payer, Dr. Quentin Young, run … I’d like to see Ron Paul, or someone who is a libertarian Tea Party type run, because the Tea Party in a way reflected the conservative wing of the Republican Party that have been disrespected by the corporate wing.”

Damn that fucker Nader for thinking voters should have choices!


We need to pay more attention to actual quotations and less to headlines and what the author of an article CLAIMS the subject said or meant.

[JDPriestly]

6. Bloomberg has definitely become known as a defender of the excesses

of Wall Street at this point. He will never have a chance at the presidency. No more.

[No Elephants]

7. I agree, My post was responding to a different issue entirely.

I was not definitely not advocating for a Bloomberg Presidency and I very much doubt Nader was, either.

[LanternWaste]

18. Or maybe they he was simply over dramatizing fiction

Or maybe they he was simply over dramatizing fiction and passing it off as a distinct possibility to better put forth a premise irrelevant to the topic of discussion-- much like what Fox News does...

:shrug:

[Matariki]

4. Oh those pictures warm my heart.

Thanks for posting these.

[tcaudilllg]

8. This man thinks he's the president...

[No Elephants]

10. When he's only the Emperor of New York City?

[tcaudilllg]

11. It's not like he doesn't have a role model

Or can YOU do better? Know any past mayors of big cities who bought their offices? (especially ENTJs)

[No Elephants]

9. Why is he dining on Wall Street?

Doesn't he live on the upper East Side?

http://www.cipriani.com/locations/new-york/restaurants/cipriani-wall-street.php

Hmmm. No prices on the menu. And a branch in Abu Dhabi.



I love that Bloomberg had to sneak out the back and I love that publicizing that exposes him as a gutless wonder to his peers, to his city and to the country and, if he is still capable of being embarrassed, therefore embarrasses him greatly.

But, don't mind me. I am just not partial to Democrats who go Republican or "Indie" *cough sneakier Republican* cough

And Bloomberg has gone both. Now, he should just get gone.

[Bozita]

13. email from MoveOn...

Dear MoveOn member,


Tonight I went to Occupy Wall Street to deliver the signatures of more than 240,000 people—including you—who signed our emergency petition asking Mayor Bloomberg not to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park tomorrow.

We held a huge press conference at the park with dozens of news outlets, and then hundreds people marched up Broadway to City Hall to deliver the petition.

When they found out Mayor Bloomberg was busy dining with the 1% a few blocks away at the ultra-luxurious Cipriani, the march continued to the doors of the restaurant.

It was a strong show of nationwide solidarity, numerous local elected officials joined our march to oppose Bloomberg's decision, and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell even featured the petition tonight. As of right now, however, Bloomberg's order to clear Zuccotti Park still stands and we won't know until tomorrow morning what he's going to do.

But regardless of Mayor Bloomberg's actions, the most important thing any of us can do is to make sure this movement keeps growing by supporting a local Occupy event in our town.

Here's a great map listing of tons of Occupy events all over the country that our friends at DailyKos put together:

www.occupywallstreetevents.com

As we wait to see what happens in New York tomorrow, I hope you'll find the event closest to you and go there to show your solidarity.

Thanks for all you do.

[Name removed]

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[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Hooray!

[chrisa]

17. The comments sections of these articles are truly full of idiots.

It's the same old, "Get a job you smelly Marxist hippies! Bankers aren't the problem, this was caused by government / too many regulations!" "Shoot them all! Yehaw!" and "Wall Street and Greed are good - you spoiled rich kids are just jealous because you don't have a piece of the pie!" idiotic comments that keep popping up over and over again.

Ladies and gentlemen, the average American.