When Dick Blumenthal opened his race for the U.S. Senate in
2010, he boasted “I've never taken PAC money and I have rejected all special
interest money because I have stood strong and have taken legal action against
many of those special interests.”
That was then.
It did not take Connecticut’s once battling Attorney General
to acclimate to the ways of Congress. Roll Call reports that Mr. Blumenthal, who joined the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee at the beginning of 2013, “appears to be comfortable taking PAC
contributions from communications companies that his Senate committee
regulates.” Mr. Blumenthal also sits on the Subcommittee on Communications,
Technology and the Internet.
Nutmeg PAC, Mr. Blumenthal’s campaign committee and
leadership PAC, has received PAC contributions from a long list of companies
Mr. Blumenthal regulates as the people’s senator from the nutmeg state.
According to a story in the Congressional Quarterly’s Roll
Call, the companies under Mr. Blumenthal’s scrutiny from which he has accepted
campaign contributions include: “AT&T
Inc. Federal PAC $2,000; Comcast Corporation PAC $2,500; Cox Enterprises PAC
$1,000; Echostar Corporation & Dish Network PAC $1,500; National Cable
& Telecommunications Assn. PAC $5,000; National Telecommunications
Cooperative Assn. Telecommunications Education Committee $1,000; News America
Holdings Inc.-Fox PAC $2,000; T-Mobile USA Inc. PAC $1,000; Time Warner Inc.
PAC $1,000; Universal Music Group PAC $1,000; United States Telecom Assn. PAC
$1,000; Walt Disney Productions Employees PAC $1,500; among others.”
Comments
Shows how truly assinine this person is politically
This clearly shows that he is a total ideologue, its all about politics as usual with his cronies for #'s game. (but the #'s are getting smaller and smaller).
the right and EASY? thing to do would be to "man-up" and not take the money . . . but he had to behold to his buddies