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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Is Creating Jobs…AstroTurf Jobs

Are you a late sleeper looking for work? The protests on Wall Street could be just the place for you to start a career. And no experience is needed, they are willing to train you!

Who are these people who want to pay you to be part of the protests that former Speaker Pelosi called “spontaneous”?

The jobs are with the Working Families Party.

Occupy Wall Street Is Creating Jobs

What is the Working Families Party? WFP is a New York-based, left leaning political party that had strong ties to ACORN and also receives substantial financial support from large unions like SEIU. The New York Times describes them this way;

The Working Families Party was formed in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions and community groups as a way of prodding Democratic candidates to pay more attention to the organizations’ needs.

And the WFP is also hiring people to work at the protests on Wall Street.

The following was taken from two different ads on Craigslist, the first one appeared on September 21st;

Occupy Wall Street Is Creating Jobs

The next ad ran on September 26th;

Occupy Wall Street Is Creating Jobs

(Yes, we realize that “DIFFERNENCE” should be spelled differently, the image above is a screen capture of the Craigslist help-wanted ad.)

Can this non-profit organization really be PAYING people to protest?  Yes!

And you don’t even need experience – they are willing to train you, and it is a paid training program.

From the body of the ad;

  • The only requirements are that you are enthusiastic and an energetic communicator with a passion for improving New York!
  • We offer substantial paid-training provided by senior leadership on advocacy, public speaking, mobilizing, networking and organizing.
  • We invest in passionate people with excellent communication skills and a full benefits package is offered to those candidates that qualify. In addition, there is opportunity for advancement and travel to our satellite chapters and out of state affiliates.
  • Working hours are from 1 PM to 9 PM. Work environment is team-oriented, casual but professional.

The ad also states that pay is between $350-$650 per week.

H/T – David Webb of Sirius XM’s Patriot Channel

Comments (114)

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  • grandmaclown
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:37am

    Why do you need to get paid if you really believe in a cause? We are Tea Party members, and we definitely are not rich so we are not the astroturf that Nancy accuses us of. We’ve been to the Tea Party rallies in DC for 2 years and WE PAID OUR OWN WAY.We have never made over $32,000 a year in our lives, but we have a place to live, nothing fancy but paid for, small balance on my husbands jeep, otherwise no debt. We pay for private health insurance. We also pay for a grandchild to go to private school. I’m tired of the indoctrinated union led schools. We live simply. We do get social security, but we would have more money if we had had the option to invest our own money. Our monthly benefit is less than the taxpayers pay for Nancy’s San Francisco offices per month. Wish she would just fade away into the sunset.

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    • Secessionista
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:10am

      Pelosi compared these protesters to tea partiers. When she said that, I suspect that what she meant was they were like what she perceived tea partiers to be like – violent, mean, racist, and ugly.

      She got the description of one group right.

      A reporter should quote her her own words about the tea party, and then quote her saying the protesters are the same as the tea party, then ask her why she despises these protesters so much.

      But they won’t. They are too busy obsessing over that niggardly-headed rock.

      Pun intended, if that’s even a pun.

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    • mad_hatter
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:27am

      This is the same lady (Pelosi) that said that she fears the language of the protesters (Tea Party) because she saw the violence that came from it (Flashback: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/pelosi_fear_language.html ) So how was the Occupier’s rhetoric less than the Tea Partiers. Sorry they are the ones that are calling for people’s death and murders, not the Tea Party.

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    • mils
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:37pm

      Iran thinks these guys are doing the “right’ thing…..makes you wonder what the hell we have going o here and what is obama and his administration sup to?

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    • Gerrymanderer
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:08pm

      I ♥ the First Amendment. Tea Party or OWS protests …we all have this sacred right bestowed upon us by our GREAT Founding Fathers. The right to assemble and speech. Such an achievement of liberties. God Bless America and allow all those to take a stand against tyranny. Whether it’s protests against tyranny of government (Obama and his cronies) or tyranny of the 1% oligarchs (Murdoch, Soros, Koch, Greenspan, Geithner, Bernake, etc.) as long as we can take a stand. This does not happen in most countries. If this were Iran, they’d all be shot or gassed. God Bless America.

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    • gsreagan
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:10pm

      They just need some half warm bodies to occupy space and have a presence to show more people on the news programs. Just another union tactic to spend their members dues.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Well, I would assume alot of other jobs will be created by these protests. Someone is gonna have to clean the pee off the sidewalks, wipe the poo off the police cars and pick up all the trash and used condoms out of the bushes…..Obama and his buddies are getting America back to work!!!

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  • Jeetman
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:25am

    We need to do what Reagan did to the Soviet Union. Force them to PAY everyone of those libt@ards. I‘m sure there are people there that ARE NOT GETTING PAID only because they’re not aware of the job opportunity. I say we let them know. This would anger some of them and get them to wonder why THEY’RE not getting paid. Make these Communist, Socialist moron Jackass organizers PAY every single one of these people. Bleed them of THERE/OUR money.

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    • Jeetman
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:28am

      Sorry. Meant to say “THIER” and OUR “stolen” money (from taxes).

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    • Charb
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:23am

      Good point. Make sure everyone out there is getting paid their “fair share”.

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  • mikee1
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:18am

    Sign should read: STOP CORP. WELFARE FROM ODUMBO INC. For example, GOV. MOTORS, SOLYNDRA, GREEN INDUSTRIES IN GENERAL. I am sure there are hundreds more from these cronie communists.

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  • Muddbog
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:05am

    Really you twit, Has she forgot the words she spoke about the tea party? “I‘ve seen this kind of rhetoric back in the 60’s… :( ” WOW! I am just in shock! I shouldn’t be but I am! Every time one of these moron’s open their mouth that some off the wall comment comes flying out. What ever drug they are on should be outlawed! I’m serious, Pelosi has to know that the things she says are wrong in every way! WTF!

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:03am

    There is no honor among democrats or thieves or is there any difference in the twol

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:09pm

      There is no difference between a Democrat and a thief.

      They both take from someone else, something that profoundly does not belong to either the Democrat or the thief.

      Neither respects the property rights of others.

      Neither the thief not the Democrat are charitable towards others.

      Both the thief and the Democrat either make excuses why they themselves can not make it in life or why the people that they represent can not make it on their own.

      Yes, both the Democrat and the thief are in most cases indistinguishable from one another.

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  • mamatango
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:33am

    When you see the protest videos, take a good long look at all those fine, upstanding folks that are willing to sell out their nation for a couple of weeks pay. How sad is that???

    Doesn’t that make them and their employers traitors? Didn’t we used to have laws about that?

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:34am

      I wonder, do they pay taxes/social security out of those pay checks?

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:47am

      loriann12

      Yes they do…and they get SS credits for that work. LOL…Fusion on fire.

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  • SUPERTODD
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:20am

    They are trying so hard to equate these astroturfed, Soros-funded, union initiated protests with the Tea Party. Has there been an arrest at a Tea Party? How about pictures of someone defecating on a police car? How about hundreds of people screaming obsceneties at, and physically assaulting, the police? They even go so far as to invent events. Pelosi keeps referencing a “spitting incident” that never happened. One Tea Party offered $15000 for video proof of it happening. The money has still gone unclaimed.

    The problem the Left has is that this is not 1960. There are too many outlets out there that can show the truth. So keep on setting out this preposterous party-line on your little shows like Jon Stewart, at press conferences, at CNN/MSNBC/NBC/ABC/CBS and in all your news papers. Americans who want the truth can now find it without the biased filter.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:13am

    They will give you 5 dollars for lunch. If your smart take the 5 dollars get lunch and go home

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  • jb.kibs
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:10am

    isn’t wall street the stock exchanges?

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:49am

      Stock exchanges, large banks, Federal Reserve has a building in the area, couple other major money players. Lot of financial power in the area.

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  • TucsonTerpFan
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:02am

    Now, this is real “astroturf!”

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  • gemologist
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:01am

    Hey I get paid less than 500 a week, are you telling me that I could hold a sign and yell “we got sold out” at intervals and get more? Actually not even surprised a little bit.. sad isnt it.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:55am

      @ Gemologist

      The prostitution of your honor, dignity, and personal image would cost you far less than a paltry 650 / wk could alleviate.

      Not to mention the working environment is horrid and probably hostile to Conservatives. If these protestors have to dump on the side of a police patrol car, something is wrong.

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  • oldschoolgreen
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:54am

    350 to 650 per week? Is that better than welfare? Why the price differential? Doesn’t seem very fair. Lets unionize the protersters! That way they won’t get anything done what so ever and will negotiate themselves out of a job!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:12am

      unionize the protestors! they are being treated unfairly, they need tents, hot coco, their teddy bears, etc…

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  • tharpdevenport
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:36am

    Occupy Wall Street is so far turning out to be nothing more than Occupy McDonald‘s Bathroom’s.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:31am

    If we work HARD for each day for the future of our children then division will have no time or this hate of dirrerent ideas. We all have a steak here. so try to understand we are united, God Bless America !!!!! WTH

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  • Cosmos102
    Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:09am

    We all know that people who respond to these kinds of ads on Craigslist aren’t saying to themselves, “Now I don’t have to donate at the sperm bank for the next few months in order to get my drug money.” Couldn’t be that…

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    • Tim Law
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:29am

      Will we’ve been wondering just why they are protesting. Now we know it’s all about money it always is. They want the banks money, but they’ll take Soros money till they can destroy the country. Poor fools don’t see that if they get what they want, none of us will have any money except Soros and the Socialist in DC. The road to HELL is paved with good intentions.

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:51am

      @Tim Law

      Amen Brother. It IS all about the money. The easiest way to make it, is the choice these kinds of people will take. Never a hard days work.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:55am

      You folks know nothing. People who no longer have jobs will apply. The elderly on fixed incomes will apply…you have to feed yourselves and your families. The push down did exactly what they wanted…and they will use it.

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  • Beckett
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:56pm

    FIGHT TO HOLD WALLSTREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERNENCE GET PAID!
    Date: 2011-09-26, 5:09PM EDT
    Reply to: job-fvgsu-2618821815@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

    http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html

    Photobucket
    The Working Families Party (WFP) (www.workingfamiliesparty.org) is New York’s most energetic, independent and progressive political party. Formed in 1998 by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions, we came together to build a society that works for all of us, not just Wall Street CEOs and the well-connected. WFP is independent from corporate and government funding and in-addition we are community based; community funded and equally uninfluenced by both major parties. Our agenda focuses on economic and social justice, corporate accountability, job creation, environmental protection, and investment in education and healthcare.

    Compensation: $350-$650 A Week Depending On Responsibility & Length Of Time On Staff
    Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
    Please, no phone calls about this job!
    Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

    PostingID: 2618821815

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    • pscully17
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:03am

      who do you think is paying for this? Answer: You and me… through the aloocated funds to Acorn and other obscure Non-profit deocrat money, laundered through lobbyists and corruption… solyndra, evergreen solar, Obamas stimulus slush funds…. of course its our money… Pac money from union dues as well…. confiscated and used against the unsuspecting idiot members who think life is gravy under union shops..but other than that, blindly dont follow where their money is going….

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:56pm

    “Work environment is team-oriented, casual but professional.” So should I show up in Dockers and a button down collar, or a Che t-shirt and raggy jeans?

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:57am

      Yep they the commies use the same words as real capitalists. Fusion baby…it worked for Obama to get elected in his state. (the early days)

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:52pm

    Let us see an IRS audit of who is paying these folks! Audit the Soros funded “not for profits”! Can Obama be tied to these protestors? Is Obama seeking to overthrow the government with his pay to revolution useful idiots?

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:03am

      Of coarse he is. How else can he become supreme dictator?

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:41am

      By staging a false emergency right before elections, then instating Martial Law, and claiming for the good of the country he won’t step down riught away…

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:46am

      Actually they do have you fill out the w4 form and other forms so you can get SS credits…they use the same system that the capitalists use…you folks are so far behind you will never figure it out. Listen, watch GBTV.

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  • WireWizard
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:50pm

    That’s more than I make now. Sign me UP!!

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    • broker0101
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:05am

      Riiiiiiigght. Save your lies about wanting to actually work for more miney. Lazy-ass liar.

      broker0101  
    • CanteenBoy
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:56am

      Broker, you are an idiot. Plus, you can’t spell. Will the real dumb ass please stand up?

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:49am

      Compromised.

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  • rdietz7
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:46pm

    Looks like the Pepsi generation is now the Pelosi Generation.

    What the hell are they selling anyway? You don’t make money from protesting, so how are they going to pay their workers?

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Why would they hire people for a job thousands are volunteering to do?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Soros has plenty ‘o money.

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    • Bonnieblue2A
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:55pm

      They are selling Marxism. The money is likely coming from Soros funded “not for profits” and union dues.

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  • smartgirl
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:30pm

    Disheartening. At the Tea Party rallies I’ve attended, there are always a few counter-protestors. People go and chat them up and, yes, they’ve been paid to be there. In one case, a couple of vans pulled up; a bunch of people got out; they took pictures of themselves (to prove they were there); they got back in the vans and left. They aren’t committed to any cause. They just find the gig on Craigslist and one of the liberal organizations pays them. Here’s the good news: It‘s that much money they WON’T have when 2012 election season gets here.

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    • dnewton
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:08am

      Did you forget to mention that they sometimes take signs with them to make photographs that could embarrass the Tea Party for future propaganda purposes? Signs like: Obama is Hitler etc.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:53am

      As soon as you see them video cam them and ask questions. Shame them…out them…and offer them a legit job. The left is taking advantage of the times. Pure evil at work.

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  • Marine 1
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:30pm

    Shovel-ready job..right? You’re going to need a shovel because that is a load of barvo sierra . Also, anyone ever tried to survive on $350-$650 per week in New York? Your cardboard box home will be nice until it rains or snows. Good luck with that one.

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  • checkit
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:29pm

    I wonder why the Arabs have not yet told obama to step down, since their are protest in the U.S?

    obama has pushed really hard for other national leaders to step down and has gone to war over protesters, Where are the Arabs demanding that he step down?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:57pm

      This may be a simple reason:

      Those who view the USA as the “Great Satan” or “Great Enemy” see the prospects of a chaotic time in the US to both strike out here at home, and to exploit the chaos to make advances of their own agendas across the Mid-East and elsewhere.

      They see the opportunity as one of advantage, looking for success to build upon for the mid to long term time frames (say 3-5 years for mid range 8-10 for long range).

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    • shirtsbyeric
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:07am

      According to his own doctrine, if these protests grow then Obama will have to “step down”.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:01am

      Obama has at many times divorced himself from the Government by saying, “I did not authorize that, they are doing that to you, I had no knowledge of that, blah blah blah…” And the sheep go bah bah bah.

      He’s so far ahead of this it is pathetic.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:28pm

    That sounds like a job even some of you lazy. whinig, unemployed Blazers could do.

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    • booger71
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:44pm

      Is that you crapping on the police cars?

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:52pm

      i believe the word your looking for is “whining ”

      and your sister told me to ask you to stop wearing her panties………….she sad your fat a$$ keeps stretching out her favorite undies

      Report Post » Psychosis  
    • rdietz7
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Joker0101,

      Why you such a hater? What? Mommy no lovey you. Poor child.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:31am

      broker0101

      That’s all you got….lol. Just love it when you kids post. It truly shows the depth of your arguments. Please continue.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:03am

      Yeah, and they way you are trying to recruit would be pissed on by the far left. They at least know how to kindly recruit. LOL

      Keyboard Cowboy, you are prob paid by the post count, eh?

      Report Post » SamIamTwo  
    • Meyvn
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:11pm

      I think Broker drinks too much, is stupid, or needs a new $10 keyboard. Perhaps all of the above. If it’s just a bad keyboard surely his parents can afford it.

      Report Post » Meyvn  
  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:26pm

    Look at the way “Spontanious” means to Pelosi and the leftist radicals:

    Tea Party — Grass Roots, coming up all over the place by many individuals rising up the same way.
    Lefitists and Pelosi — Grass Roots means paying people to show up and riot.

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    • dnewton
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:12am

      Wasn’t Pelosi the first one to call the Tea Party “astro turf?”

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