Lobby Memo Reveals Attack on Occupy Protestors: "Undermine Their Credibility"

The Proposal

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The CLGC memo outlines a 60-day plan to conduct surveys and research on OWS and its supporters, so that Wall Street companies could then conduct a smear campaign against the Occupy movement in the media.

Wall Street companies "likely will not be the best spokespeople for their own cause," according to the memo. In order to get around this difficulty, outside parties must be convinced to stand up for them, to the detriment of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

"A big challenge is to demonstrate that these companies still have political strength," the memo read, "and that making them a political target will carry a severe political cost."

A second part of the plan outlined by the Washington lobbyists however, deals with upcoming elections, and how to manipulate the Occupy protests' effect on them.

CLGC proposed "statewide surveys" in at least eight states, targeting Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Mexico and Nevada, as well as examining the gubernatorial race in North Carolina. These states "are shaping up to be the most important of the 2012 cycle."

Using that information, the lobbyists would then look into who has contributed financially to OWS, as well as what politicians appear sympathetic to Occupy's cause.

"It will be vital," the memo says, "to understand who is funding it [the Occupy protests] and what their backgrounds and motives are."

"If we can show that they have the same cynical motivation as a political opponent," the memo, now rather ironically, ends, "it will undermine their credibility in a profound way." 

The memo also says however, that the greatest blow to the ABA and its associates would not be that Democrats score big victories in 2012, but that their doing so, and the growth of OWS, causes Republicans to stop supporting Big Business in order to win more votes.