Is Occupy Wall Street the Next Tea Party?

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | October 19, 2011

No. 739

Occupy Wall Street opened a branch office on Grant Street last weekend.  It is probably the first time tents have been pitched at this location since Captain James Grant gave Grant’s Hill its name.

Its a great country when a group of protestors against capitalism can pitch tents on land owned by the corporate heirs of Pittsburgh’s most famous family of bankers and industrialists and, in the name of free speech, they let it happen. Incidentally, Judge Thomas Mellon himself lived in a tent for a while as a child when his family migrated from Ireland.  So, perhaps there is precedent.

What happens next? It wasn’t so long ago that I suggested in this blog that the fledgling Tea Party had the makings of a great political movement.  And so it has come to pass.  Could Occupy Wall Street become the next Tea Party?   Or perhaps, just the next Coxey’s Army?  Watch to see who folds up their tent when the weather turns. CLT

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