AT&T makes $3 million in donations to congressmen who then signed letter in support on Merger

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MAJOR UPDATE: A friend of ours pointed out today that there is over $3 million in AT&T government pay offs check out this link here too http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000076&chamber=&party=&cycle=2010&state=&sort=A This probably won’t come as a surprise to many of you. We already reported earlier in the month that AT&T had greased the palms of Non-Profit Organizations that wrote letters on their behalf in support of the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger. Now TmoNews is reporting via PaidContent.org that over 70 Congressmen who signed a letter on behalf of AT&T in the T-Mobile purchase, received donations. AT&T is no stranger to the big payoff. Over the last two decades AT&T has been the single largest corporate donor to members of Congress. It’s apparently clear that AT&T can buy the support of Congress, but not a good quality network. The list of House Democrats who signed the letter (from paidcontent.org) appears after the break. Many Congressmen received over $10,000 from AT&T in the last election cycle. Although the AT&T/T-Mobile merger was announced in March 2011, you can bet that this plan has been in the works for a long time. G. K. Butterfield $10,500 Gene Green $10,000 Peter Welch $6,500 Joe Baca $10,250 John Barrow $10,000 Dan Boren $10,000 Robert Brady $9,000 Ben Chandler $7,000 Silvestre Reyes $8,500 William Lacy Clay, Jr. $10,500 Al Green $10,000 Alcee Hastings $10,000 Nick J. Rahall $10,000 James P. Moran $2,500 Gregory W. Meeks $9,500 Albio Sires $9,000 Tim Holden $8,000 Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. $11,250 Ed Pastor $10,000 Mike Ross $10,250 Rubén Hinojosa $7,500 Henry Cuellar $10,000 Joseph Crowley $10,000 Eddie Bernice Johnson $9,000 Luis Gutierrez $5,500 Adam Schiff $5,500 Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. $3,350 Adam Smith $4,500 Corrine Brown $6,000 Chaka Fattah $8,000 Henry C. Johnson, Jr. $2,000 Michael Michaud $8,500 Loretta Sanchez $11,000 Donna M. Christensen $7,500 Ted Deutch $6,000 Jim Costa $10,500 Betty McCollum $1,000 Ed Perlmutter $5,500 Brad Miller $2,000 Yvette Clarke $7,000 Grace Napolitano $4,000 Steve Cohen $5,000 Ron Kind $7,000 Betty Sutton $4,000 Heath Shuler $10,000 David Scott $11,500 Jared Polis NA Cedric Richmond NA Shelley Berkley $7,000 Frederica Wilson NA Tim Bishop $10,500 Marcia Fudge $9,000 Rosa DeLauro $2,000 Karen Bass NA Christopher S. Murphy $6,800 Frank Pallone $7,500 Laura Richardson $8,000 Dennis Cardoza $10,000 David Cicilline NA Raúl Grijalva $2,000 Danny K. Davis $6,000 Brad Sherman $5,500 Ben Ray Luján $5,000 Dutch Ruppersberger $7,500 Terri Sewell NA John B. Larson $5,500 Charles A. Gonzalez $10,500 James R. Langevin $8,000 Collin C. Peterson $4,500 Jerry McNerney $12,750 Joe Courtney $4,250 Gerald Connolly $9,500 Total $496,400 Read more at cornwallis.tumblr.com

 

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