Probably the last person you'd expect to scold the Occupy Wall Street protesters for having "flawed values that got our country into this economic mess" is a former Washington Mutual board member.
But Tom Leppert, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas who sat on WaMu's board from 2005 until its 2008 failure, is doing just that.
Leppert has started a petition to "End the Occupation" that harshly criticizes logic behind the protesters’ movement. According to his blog, he aims to get 5,000 signatures by Oct. 31 from anti-Occupy Wall Street supporters to "tell President Barack Obama to denounce Occupy Wall Street's demand for class warfare."
In Leppert's view, the protesters "possess a false sense of entitlement and think they should be receiving government handouts and run up the debt on an imaginary credit card by making hard-working Americans and future generations pay for the bill."
If you think that sounds a bit rich coming from a guy who helped preside over the biggest bank failure in history — a failure that was largely blamed on WaMu's foray into questionable lending — you're not alone.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2011/10/ex-wamu-board-member-lambasts-protestors.html?ed=2011-10-18&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub