Cal Student Creates Group To Back Occupy-Friendly Candidates
BERKELEY (CBS / AP) -- A California graduate student has formed a political committee that intends to raise money to support congressional candidates who back the goals of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Joshua Green of Berkeley said Tuesday that he's launching a website where supporters can donate funds for the Occupy the Congress committee.
The University of California, Berkeley, student hasn't participated in Occupy protests, but he's sympathetic with their goals and said the movement needs to get engaged in politics with elections coming in 2012.
So far, it's a one-person operation.
Government records show the group was formed as a so-called 527 committee, a tax-exempt organization that can raise unlimited amounts of money to advocate issues to voters.
Leading Republicans have denounced the Occupy movement, while Democrats have mostly kept their distance.
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