Eliot Spitzer and Occupy Wall Street find each other [View All]

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http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BFE9147E-80C3-4867-8090-DAF4E21EE788

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After a meteoric rise and fall — first in politics and then as a CNN host — the former New York governor has dusted himself off again and emerged as one of the earliest, loudest and clearest voices supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement.

In a string of Slate columns, guest spots on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and public appearances, Spitzer has spent the past two months giving full-throated support and a laundry list of policy ideas to the nascent movement, even while being careful to emphasize that he speaks only from its sidelines.

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Spitzer has gone down to Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park “a couple times,” he said, more to listen than to talk. What he saw reminded him of the other great social movements of the past century.

“It’s what grass-roots activism looks like, and as a consequence it is easy for those who want to disparage it to disparage it,” he said. “But at the same time, it is incredibly potent.”