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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 06:21 PM Original message |
Time Warner Spent Nearly $1.8M Lobbying |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. I Didn't Know It Was Possible To Lobby a Regulatory Agency |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Well, isn't that what WE were doing when we sent emails to the FCC? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 06:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. But We Aren't Corporations |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 08:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. What is even worse is when a federal regulatory agency lobbies a state |
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EST (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. Lobbying IS bribery. |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. shit.... |
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SayWhatYo (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. heh, they also beg their employees to deduct money from their pay to help with the lobbying. |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 10:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. True, or at least they did when they were fighting net neutrality |
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SayWhatYo (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 11:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. If I recall correctly I believe that's what it was for. |
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badgervan (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-25-07 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. Now We Know... |
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