An imaginative PR effort by the SEIU http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/buyout-tax-debate-hits-the-hamptons/
------------------------------------snip Buyout Tax Debate Hits the Hamptons It may be the late-summer doldrums, but the debate over taxes and private equity is hardly on vacation. It has just gone to the Hamptons — like much of the rest of Wall Street. A group of protesters, some with costumes and snarky stage names, gathered Wednesday on the swank Main Street of Southampton, N.Y., not far from the summer home of one of the private equity industry's leaders, Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Slinging slogans like "protect the emerging plutocracy" and cheerfully greeting passersby with "have a wonderful wealthy day," these activists — tongues firmly planted in cheeks — demanded more tax relief for private equity fund managers. Their real objective, of course, was exactly the opposite. Wednesday's protest was organized by the Service Employees International Union, which represents nearly two million workers, and the Working Families Project of New York.
