 Verizon/AT&T mobile cell towers given to McCain’s campaign |
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is the top recipient of campaign contributions from large Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast over the past two years, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics. McCain has taken in a total of $894,379 (much of that money going to support his failed 2008 bid for the presidency), more than twice the amount taken by the next-largest beneficiary, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) $341,089.
Meanwhile, McCain has emerged as the ISPs’ biggest champion against new “network neutrality” rules from the Federal Communications Commission, which voted Thursday to move forward in the process to adopt such rules. Shortly after the FCC vote, McCain introduced a bill (the “Internet Freedom Act“) that would block regulation of the nation’s largest broadband networks.
Net neutrality rules would amount to a federal mandate that broadband providers cannot block or hinder the internet traffic of any web site or service, regardless of whether or not that site or service completes with a similar site or service offered by the ISP itself. In other words, a telco ISP could not limit bandwidth used for Skype VoIP traffic, while maximizing bandwidth available for its own VoIP service.
As Congress considers legislation that would codify net neutrality into law, cable and phone companies are hoping to cut a better deal on Capitol Hill than they are likely to get from the FCC, the Sunlight Foundation’s Bill Allison says…
The telecom interests also targeted House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. ($275,275), Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont. ($248,999) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ($198,972).
Congressional democracy in action. Money buys everyone. Senior politicians just cost more.
#9 U are preaching to the choir…I hope we toss everyone we can out, in 2010, and any remaining incumbent senators, including McCain, in 2012 and 14…
We need term limits…Medicare is a good example…
They pay $4000 for a $1000 wheel chair; they rent oxygen bottles for $6,000 a year, when they can buy them for $600…
Its why lobbyists are overwhelmingly in support of Obama care…good times will expand to the entire system.
Whenever a freshman senator or congressman tries to stop the theft…he either gets bought off, of enough are bought off to stop the correction.
Lobbyists for wall street paid our career politicians to look the other way…and they ran the economy into the ditch…
We need to get them all out so we can begin prosecuting them for their crimes…as long as they are in office…we will never put them in jail…that includes Obama who got the most money from Fannie Freddie.
Good thing he’s not the prez.
And so much was made over McCain’s (or McCash?) war record. He was a pilot, not a front line combat soldier. He got shot down and made a POW. But his dad was some big admiral. So you can bet the enemy treated just a little bit better, than most prisoners. Something that gets glossed over a lot. Anyway. Decades later he’s an overpriced slimeball for hire. And probably was long before, when he was helping out his friend. Mr. Charles Keating, of Arizona. Which McCain managed to clear himself of. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t sell out his state, for money.
#23 Good point.
Sheeple like to forget that McCain wiggled his way out of the Charles Keating fiasco. Since he served in combat (respectfully), sheeple see that a permanent immunity idol.
Sheeple, even in “Survivor” the immunity idol needs to get turned in.
http://realchange.org/mccain.htm
#20, It’s interesting that the ones who yell things like “free market” and “capitalism” and such are the same thugs who work hardest to thwart those ideals by buying monopolies from politicians.
And they are successful at it.
Agreed. Both of the major parties are so deep in debt to special interests, they don’t have a clue how to fix anything without risking being “suicided.”
Holy crap Alfred, stop copy pasting your posts. The only thing worse than reading your nonsense is reading the same nonsense over and over.
#26 Worse than you lying? I never copy paste posts…you are mistaken.
“Congressional democracy in action. Money buys everyone. Senior politicians just cost more.”
In the words of the prophet, “In the exact manner.”
All of you GOP die hards, read the bill b4 you spit out your nonsense.
This an example that you will probably understand…
You hired a driver to drive you where ever you want to go. You are paying him a monthly salary to do this. Then one day, you said, I want to go to my parents house. The driver said, “Sorry I can’t take you there”. You ask him why, he said, coz your parent’s didn’t pay me.
The driver is AT&T and those ISPs, you are paying them to drive you, but they are saying, the destination places should also pay them.
And your GOP politicians are on the side of these corporations. But I hope you have it your way, let these ISP companies control which website you get to visit, while the rest of the world are free.