Wall Street Liars in Retreat

The other day I posted "Beating the Wall Street Liars", telling how "Wall Street is trying to marginalize Social Security champions like Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Tom Harkin and Sherrod Brown".

If you signed the Petition, thanks!  If you didn't - you'll have to answer to your grandchildren....

Now, Bold Progressives are reporting:

"You helped attack back against a corporate front group that attacked Elizabeth Warren's economic populism and her progressive ideas on Social Security.

In one day, over 70,000 of us demanded that Third Way disclose its Wall Street donors. Elizabeth Warren joined our pressure campaign, and we generated over 10 major headlines.

Our pressure got Third Way's own co-chair to publicly call their attacks on Warren "outrageous."

And the Wall Street Journal reports, "a spokesman for Third Way...declined to disclose the think tank’s donors." Instead of attacking Warren, they are now playing defense in the media!

We're continuing to shame Third Way with ads, more media outreach, and more grassroots pressure. Can you chip in $3 so we can continue this effective campaign?

Politico summarized yesterday's action-packed events:

It started with an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.

Two leaders of the center-left think tank, Third Way, wrote that “economic populism is a dead end for Democrats” [and] liberals like Warren are irresponsible.

A chorus of groups aligned with the liberal wing of the party – from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to Howard Dean’s Democracy for America and Russ Feingold’s Progressives United – responded by attacking Third Way as a Wall Street-funded front group.

A liberal candidate running in a crowded Democratic primary [for Pennsylvania governor], John Hanger, then joined these groups Wednesday morning in calling on Rep. Allyson Schwartz, the early Democratic frontrunner in the race...to resign as an honorary co-chair of Third Way.

By lunch time, Warren jumped into the fray, [calling out Wall Street's] "financial contributions to think tanks.”

A few hours later, Schwartz condemned the piece for the Journal...“She read the op-ed and thought it was outrageous and strongly disagreed."

Each of the groups involved said this back-and-forth is an opening salvo in a debate among Democrats that will only become louder through 2014 and 2016.

Schwartz’s attempt to distance herself from Third Way emboldened the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to call on the centrist group’s other co-chairs to take public positions.

Chip in $3 so we can keep the pressure on Third Way -- and show the immense popularity of Elizabeth Warren's ideas.

Then, pass this email to others. Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, PCCC co-founder"