Cheap dates: here’s how much it cost the telcoms sector to buy Congress and murder Net Neutrality

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Congress took $101 million in donations from the telcoms sector, and then, by an amazing coincidence, 107 Republican Congressjerks sent a letter to Donald Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, exhorting him to kill Net Neutrality without delay.

We don’t know exactly who signed that letter, though, because the
signatures are illegible and the committee that published the letter
won’t divulge the identities of the public servants who, on behalf of
the people, told a regulator to destroy America’s internet.

Some of the names can be sleuthed out, and the remarkable thing isn’t
that these bad people did a bad thing – that’s something that happens
every day on the Hill – but how little the individual sums involved
are. Mo Brooks [R-Ala] got only $26K, and Ron Estes [R-Kan] got $13,807,
Paul Gosar [R-AZ] got $12,250 and so on. Some of these sellouts got a
really great payday, of course (Cathy McMorris-Rodgers [R-WA], I’m
looking at you and your $673,530), but the majority sold out for change
rattling around in Comcast’s sofa cushions.

Mo Brooks, Alabama, $26,000
   

Ron Estes, Kansas, $13,807
   

Thomas Massie, Kentucky, $25,000
   

Ralph Norman, South Carolina, $15,050
   

John Moolenaar, Michigan, $25,000
   

Neal Dunn, Florida, $18,500
   

Mike Bishop, Michigan, $68,250
   

Alex Mooney, West Virginia, $17,750
   

Glenn “GT” Thompson, Pennsylvania, $70,500
   

Blaine Luetkemeyer, Missouri, $105,000
   

Paul Gosar, Arizona, $12,250
   

Richard W. Allen, Georgia, $24,250
   

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota, $168,500
   

Greg Walden, Oregon, $1,605,986
   

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee, $600,999
   

Billy Long, Missouri, $221,500
   

Gregg Harper, Mississippi, $245,200
   

Brett Guthrie, Kentucky, $398,500
   

Bill Johnson, Ohio, $196,666
   

Jeff Duncan, South Carolina, $41,830
   

Earl “Buddy” Carter, Georgia, $39,250
   

Susan Brooks, Indiana, $168,500
   

Gus Bilirakis, Florida, $234,400
   

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma, $141,750
   

Mimi Walters, California, $161,500
   

Joe Barton, Texas, $1,262,757
   

Bill Flores, Texas, $127,500
   

Pete Olson, Texas, $220,500
   

Morgan Griffith, Virginia, $198,900
   

Tim Walberg, Michigan, $131,850
   

Fred Upton, Michigan, $1,590,125
   

Joe Wilson, South Carolina, $104,750
   

Martha McSally, Arizona, $84,936
   

Blake Farenthold, Texas, $64,250
   

Steve Womack, Arkansas, $104,750
   

Tom Marino, Pennsylvania, $130,700
   

Louie Gohmert, Texas, $85,055
   

Walter Jones, North Carolina, $72,800
   

Leonard Lance, New Jersey, $290,550
   

Steve Chabot, Ohio, $332,083
   

Bob Goodlatte, Virginia, $815,099
   

Andy Biggs, Arizona, $19,500
   

Mark Walker, North Carolina, $35,750
   

Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin, $21,200
   

Ken Buck, Colorado, $79,350
   

Larry Bucshon, Indiana, $71,750
   

Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee, $42,00
   

David Rouzer, North Carolina, $34,300
   

Paul Mitchell, Michigan, $18,000
   

Hal Rogers, Kentucky, $360,450
   

Doug Collins, Georgia, $103,600
   

Ralph Abraham, Louisiana, $27,300
   

Mark Meadows, North Carolina, $14,500
   

Michael McCaul, Texas, $216,500
   

Jeb Hensarling, Texas, $270,198
   

Mike Simpson, Idaho, $125,200
   

Tom Emmer, Minnesota, $28,500
   

Randy Weber, Texas, $13,750
   

Rob Woodall, Georgia, $60,250
   

Ted Budd, North Carolina, $15,500
   

Ken Calvert, California, $219,212
   

Diane Black, Tennessee, $104,750
   

Virginia Foxx, North Carolina, $115,700
   

Sam Johnson, Texas, $219,785
   

James Comer, Kentucky, $22,750
   

Trey Gowdy, South Carolina, $83,250
   

Lamar Smith, Texas, $810,462
   

Steven A King, Iowa, $210,810
   

George Holding, North Carolina, $97,750
   

Rob Wittman, Virginia, $57,250
   

John Lee Ratcliffe, Texas, $53,950
   

Jason Lewis, Minnesota, $221,174
   

Jim Banks, Indiana, $16,303
   

Bill Huizenga, Michigan, $34,000
   

Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania, $202,500
   

Steven Russell, Oklahoma, $23,500
   

Adrian Smith, Nebraska, $165,834
   

Jody B Hice, Georgia, $21,000
   

Richard Hudson, North Carolina, $136,750
   

Douglas L Lamborn, Colorado, $110,543
   

Chris Collins, New York, $151,060
   

Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Washington, $673,530
   

Brad Wenstrup, Ohio, $33,750
   

Andy Barr, Kentucky, $51,100

Here’s a List of the Members of Congress Who Just Told Ajit Pai to Repeal Net Neutrality [Kaleigh Rogers and Jason Koebler/Motherboard]

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/14/cheap-sellouts.html

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