Former Dallas mayor seeks 5,000 signatures urging Obama to denounce Occupy Wall Street

Senate hopeful, former WaMu board member Leppert funding anti-Occupy petition drive

If you’ve been curious about U.S. Senate candidate and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, wonder no more. Friday afternoon, Leppert unveiled his campaign’s effort to steer the national discourse, with endoccupy.com.

The site features a photo of screaming young people, waving signs with anti-war, pro-environment and pro-jobs messages, over a black-and-white video backdrop of slow-motion footage from the New York City protests (for the full zombie-flick effect, you can watch the video on its own here).

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