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tazzygirl -> restorewallstreet (3/21/2010 8:31:01 AM)
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Oh, this is rich... lol
The well-groomed brokers and traders bent on sticking up for Wall Street gathered on Wednesday in best-behaved form — no chanting, no shrill whistling, pretty much no noise at all — to mark the formation of the financial world’s modest alternative to the Tea Party movement.
And so a rally was organized at lunchtime on the 23rd floor of 14 Wall Street, directly across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, in the cushy offices of John Thomas Financial, a three-year-old investment house. It was much more comfortable than, say, the street.
As Thomas Belesis, the 35-year-old chief executive of John Thomas who hatched the idea, put it, “It’s cold out
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The specific purpose was to announce a nonpartisan organization called restorewallstreet.com, devoted to “bringing the pride back into Wall Street.” The name was savewallstreet.com a day earlier, but Mr. Belesis had a last-minute change of mind. He didn’t feel Wall Street needed saving, just its image polished.
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During the rally’s half-hour duration, the numerous flat-screen TVs on the wall were shut off, interrupting the Capitol Hill testimony on the A.I.G. bailout by Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former treasury secretary. That mattered less than that you could no longer see how the market was doing. In any event, it wasn’t doing that great.
The fact that virtually all of the virtually all-male attendees wore suits and ties did make the gathering perhaps the best-dressed rally in history.
After brief remarks by Mr. Belesis (“Due to recent events, we must heed the clarion call for change”), the microphone was given to Bruce A. Blakeman, the little-known Long Island Republican lawyer running for the United States Senate (“My friends, we can’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg”). The rest of the rally essentially became a press conference for Mr. Blakeman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/nyregion/28bankers.html?ref=nyregion
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