Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash

[gulfcoastliberal]

Not a brand new article, but still very important info on how we get sold out.

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) is reportedly steering the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the government secretly spy on Americans.

He has also recently benefited from some interesting political contributions.

Top Verizon executives, including CEO Ivan Seidenberg and President Dennis Strigl, wrote personal checks to Rockefeller totaling $23,500 in March, 2007. Prior to that apparently coordinated flurry of 29 donations, only one of those executives had ever donated to Rockefeller (at least while working for Verizon).

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AT&T executives discovered a fondness for Rockefeller just a month after Verizon execs did and over a three-month span, collectively made donations totaling $19,350.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/dem-pushing-spy.html

[Mika]

1. THIS IS WHAT u.s. DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Capitalism can buy anything. Including our government.

[AndyA]

2. One would think anyone in Rockefeller's position would either step down or

return the money, for fear of looking compromised. But NO, it doesn't seem to be that way any more.

Perhaps he's folling in Diane Feinstein's footsteps...her husband's company sure made a ton of money off of the government, didn't he?

The Republicans are even worse.

We're being pissed on, and they aren't even going behind the bushes to do it anymore. :(