GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich drew loud cheers for his head-on – but polite – response to a few Occupy Wall Street protestors who briefly interrupted a tea party town hall in Jacksonville this afternoon.

Earlier, Gingrich told the crowd he shared the protestors’ anger about the nation’s financial mess but said that local officials should film them and deal harshly with any protestors who are violent towards people or property.

Near the end of his hour-and-a-half event, a few protestors interrupted Gingrich, shouting “We are the 99 percent!”

That elicited boos from the tea party crowd but the former U.S. House Speaker quickly used the opportunity to garner even more support.

Speaking directly to the protestors, Gingrich told them to wait.

“There’s no such thing as 99 percent in America,” he said. “We are 100 percent Americans.”

Rep. Jeff Clemens, a Lake Worth Democrat, has filed a bill that would ban banks from charging customers for using debit cards.

The bill (HB 375) doesn’t have a Senate sponsor and the GOP-dominated legislature is unlikely to pass the measure. Clemens filed his bill on Monday, capitalizing on recent protests by Occupy Wall Street supporters, who held rallies throughout the world this weekend, including in Lake Worth.

“The banks sold us all on the idea of a cashless society, and now that we’ve bought into their promise of free, easy access to our own money, they want to charge us for it,” Clemens, who served as Lake Worth mayor before coming to Tallahassee, said in a statement. “Anyone with a sense of decency should be outraged.”

Clemens’ proposal makes it unlawful “to charge or impose a dormancy fee, and inactivity fee or charge, or a service fee with respect to the use or holding of a debit card by a consumer.”

Wells Fargo and Bank of America, the first banks to announce monthly fees for debit cards, are raking in huge profits, according to Clemens. Bank of America has paid no federal income tax for the past two years, claiming losses in its federal filings and is planning to eliminate 30,000 jobs. Wells Fargo netted more than $7.5 billion in profits during the first half of this year, Clemens said.

Federal laws govern banking regulations but Clemens said a recent U.S. Supreme Court that gave the New York attorney general oversight over some federally chartered financial institutions.

Representative Clemens has also started a Facebook page entitled G.R.E.E.D. (Get Rid of Excessive Expenses for Debitcards) that he hopes will serve as a sort of rallying point for those who are outraged and a clearinghouse for banking horror stories.

Clemens said he also started a Facebook page called “Get Rid of Excessive Expenses for Debitcards,” or G.R.E.E.D. to “serve as a rallying point for those who are outraged and a clearinghouse for banking horror stories,” according to the release.