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Rockefeller, Verizon, and Money


Wired came up with this graph on Verizon employees donations to Rockefeller. Rockefeller, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committe, is pushing to give the telecoms retroactive immunity for their lawbreaking with the Bush government in wiretapping. They also have a nice, and even more amusing, graph of AT&Ts donations.

Go read the entire post, in the meantime, here's the graph:


Ian Welsh October 19, 2007 - 6:01am
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quiet Bill October 19, 2007 - 6:43am
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Verizon High-Speed Services Deregulated ~ Net Neutrality Imperil

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quiet Bill October 19, 2007 - 6:44am
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I'm sure none of us expected

I'm sure none of us expected the telecoms to sit quietly on their hands.

So we can surmise that they cut a deal with Rockefeller. But he can't act alone. The Senate leadership seems behind granting the retroactive immunity, so are they on the take from these guys, too?

Mr. Flibble October 19, 2007 - 9:23am
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Harry Reid given 22,000 from at&t

http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00009922&cycle=2006

Tina October 19, 2007 - 9:47am
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With that,

, as Inspector Clouseau would say, I think the mystery is solv-ed.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Mr. Flibble October 19, 2007 - 10:54am
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I think this is PAC money rather than individual donations.

I'm pushing a deadline [see sig!] and can't completely validate, but I'm pretty sure (85%) that Rockefeller and Reid are broadly comparable in terms of PAC money, but the individual donations of which the Wired article speaks are particular to Rockefeller.

"A survey data set containing imputed values should not be analyzed uncritically as if all the data were real values." ~ Graham Kalton

JustPlainDave October 19, 2007 - 12:08pm
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We need term limits. Throw

We need term limits. Throw the bums out !

allieboy October 19, 2007 - 11:51am
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If you've ever talked with anyone familiar with the game,

you were no doubt surprised to learn just how little it takes to bribe influence someone. Chump change for the big players.

tjfxh October 19, 2007 - 2:27pm
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Despite inflation,

politicians still represent very good bang-for-the-buck value.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch October 19, 2007 - 2:52pm
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I don't understand the connection

between that graph and Sen. Rockafeller's actions. Are you people implying that an American Congressman can be bought?

Next thing you know you'll be telling me the President lied to his constituency to start a war.

zot23 October 19, 2007 - 5:08pm
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Well, perhaps not bought.

Rented.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch October 19, 2007 - 5:12pm
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No politician has been bought!

They were installed by these corporations.

repressive governments mix administrative clumsiness & inefficiency with authoritarian tendencies.

kimmy October 20, 2007 - 7:41pm
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