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Industry Lobbyist: Bass In Our Pocket

by: William Tucker

Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 15:22:21 PM EST


Former Rep. Charlie Bass is said to be a likely candidate for the Energy and Commerce Committee when he returns to Congress to represent New Hampshire's 2nd District -- and industry lobbyists are licking their chops.

Given his experience, "I'm pretty sure he has the best case to get back on the Committee," said an industry lobbyist, who also remembered Bass to be a "strong supporter of industry," and "skeptical of net neutrality."

In his previous tenure in Congress, Bass spent six years on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including three years on the Communications subcommittee.

This election cycle, Bass collected over $36,000 in campaign contributions from the energy industry including the Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Gas Association and the Amercian Electric Power PAC. He received another $34,000 from the communications and electronics industry including donations from AT&T, DirectTV, and Verizon.

Cross-posted to Miscellany Blue

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Someone who had a sockpuppet on staff (0.00 / 0)
is skeptical of net neutrality, huh?

What a surprise.

How awesome ol' Joe Barton and the BassMaster will be back together again determining energy policy!

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker


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GWB is no longer at the other end of the line.

It makes sense for Bass and his ilk to be "skeptical" of net neutrality, not just because of the lobby and contributors, but because open communications is essential for a democracy, and that is not to their advantage. Wait until the Tea Party people find out that Charlie is in favor suppressing free speech by the selective throttling of bandwidth. One of many disconnects between preaching and practice that will become evident in short order. Of course, net neutrality will be painted as "unfairly" regulating big telecom (poor, poor, Comcast and AT&T, so abused and beleaguered by big government over the years - NOT), suppressing enterprise, killing jobs, blah, blah, blah.

Horse hockey.

One more observation: never a good idea to keep a fish in your pocket for long, they go bad quickly.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.


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