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Posted on 11/20/2011 5:06:44 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows.
A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.
The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room.
“Tents are not for me,” he confessed, when confronted in the sleek black lobby of the Washington Street hotel where sources described him as a “repeat” guest.
Spitzer, 24, an associate at financial-services giant Deloitte, which netted $29 billion in revenue last year, admitted he joined the protest at Zuccotti Park several times.
“I’m staying here for work,” said Spitzer, dressed down in a company T-shirt and holding a backpack and his suitcase. “I do finance, but I support it still.”
During his stay, hotel sources said, he and other ragtag revolutionaries he brought into the hotel lived like 1 percenters. He would order up a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, they said.
“He’s here all the time,” a hotel source said. “We all see him at the protest.”
Spitzer denied sheltering Occupiers. He claimed he only invited in a blogger buddy living at the park to wash off his camp grime.
Meanwhile, Dutro, 35, one of only a handful of OWS leaders in charge of the movement’s $500,000 in donations, checked in on Wednesday, the night after police emptied Zuccotti Park.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Man! Did they drop the ball . . . or was their retainer just to unbelievably big to risk bringing the party to an end?
While I think your “Got to have a Trust fund” comment is quite likely, I am not at all sure that “He would not put his career on the line talking to the newspaper.”
Just look at all the stupid stuff visible to employers that this generation puts on Facebook, for example.
Deloitte should boot this guy if this report is accurate.
I agree with you, but there is another important related issue. These people vote, while generally impervious to the effects of their uninformed and hypocrisy-laden voting preferences on the rest of society. It is stylish to be stupid, as long as you can wear the badge of the ‘progressive’. We have to fight the left’s propaganda, and pointing out their hypocrisy is an important element of that.
And until recently, nothing that companies could really use in the hiring/firing of employees unless extreme situations occurred. It was only in March that a lawsuit came about that said if people said it on a public forum, then companies could use it in their decisions, provided that the regular "protected class" rules weren't violated.
With such a freaking litigious society plus a boatload of governmental rules and regulations, companies were afraid to look. (sigh) {shakes head}
Although with a company as large as Deloitte, I'd wager there are several company policies that I'm sure this twerp violated, he's very likely going to be out of a job on Monday.
Hmmm... interesting
Pete Dutro
Tattooer at Fat Cat Tattos
Greater New York City Area Media Production
Current
Tattooer at Fat Cat Tattoos
Past
Project Manager at tinlab
Project Manager /Chief of Operations at tinlab
Owner at West Side Ink
Education
Polytechnic University
University of Massachusetts Boston
Massachusetts College of Art
reminds me of john kerry’s ‘protest’ against vietnam in dc.
he stayed in georgetown with rich friends and it wasn’t until he heard Nixon was planning a massive arrest of protestors that he got in the mud.
It’s very amusing to read accounts of well-heeled celebrities and others who go slumming with the Occies. “Well, they’re showing support for the “poor and oppressed” say their defenders. “What’s wrong with a rich person protesting against inequality?” they splutter. Well then, why don’t all these very rich types give up all but about ten percent of their wealth so the “poor and oppressed” can share in the sweet life? We know the reason: the rich hangers-on just want to be thought of being one of the masses and sticking it to the man. But they sure don’t want to get dirty in the process. No tents for me, says one of them. Of course no tents for you. And no filth and disease either.
bm
It’s not a $700 hotel more like $300-400. With corp discount prob $300/night. For Manhattan that’s going rate... And it looks like he went to work during day and did protest on his own time. If so I see nothing wrong with that..
If you worked during day for Deliotte in another city and protested at night should you be fired for allowing another protestor to stay with you?
However the story is likely to get him fired since he’s a lowlevel bringing controversy to deloitte.
Just like in Communist Russia, China, and Cuba.....
The workers Paradise has to have Masters.
Dutro, 35, one of only a handful of OWS leaders in charge of the movement’s $500,000 in donations, checked in on Wednesday, the night after police emptied Zuccotti Park.
.......................... he emptied the bank accounts!!
“Tents are not for me”.
Well,la-de-da.
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