What if Minnesota’s unions gave their all to support a DFL senate candidate – and he stood them up when it was time for their key bit of swag?
Yesterday, it got a column in the WaPo.
In the Tech section, in a piece by Cecilia Kang. Al Franken filed a brief with the FCC opposing the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Tuesday urged regulators to stop AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile, saying the $39 billion deal would drive up prices for consumers and threaten jobs.
We’ll come back to that last sentence in just a moment here.
In a filing sent to the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission, Franken said the deal would lead to a market duopoly and that conditions attached to the merger wouldn’t stop what could be as much as a 25 percent increase in wireless costs for consumers.
“The competitive effects of a merger of this size and scope will reverberate throughout the telecommunications sector for decades to come and will affect consumer prices, customer service, innovation, competition in handsets, and the quality and quantity of network coverage,” said Franken, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ”These threats are too large and too irrevocable to be prevented or alleviated by conditions.”
Now, in a sense, this isn’t a surprise. The far left, the “Nutroots”, hate this merger. Behind the banner of “Net Neutrality”, they’d much prefer the government to control the world’s bandwidth.
Franken’s move comes after committee chairman Herb Kohl (D-Wis. wrote a letter to federal officials last week, saying such a merger would violate antitrust law.
But we’re not here to debate Net Neutrality. We’re here to talk Al Franken.
Franken has two main bases of support in Minnesota, which pushed him – a political neophyte, albeit a pundit with portfolio – over the top in the 2008 Senate race against Norm Coleman; the Netroots – the mass of far-left “alternative” media activists – and the unions.
And on this issue as few others, those two bases are very much in conflict.
And if you’re a union worker, you need to know what Franken did.
More at noon today.
The creepy littlle carpetbagger from New York is also actively campaigning to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. I hope all of you dimwitted DFLers are proud of yourselves.
The scarey part is that I agree with Franken on this one.
There, I said it. Now to go wash my mouth out with soap.
“Franken has two main bases of support in Minnesota, which pushed him – a political neophyte, albeit a pundit with portfolio – over the top in the 2008 Senate race against Norm Coleman; the Netroots – the mass of far-left “alternative” media activists – and the unions.”
And Mark Ritchie! We should never have let the shutdown end without voter ID!
Scott;
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. King Banian was on Davis and Emmer last week and said that they are dedicated to getting that passed. They will keep hammering it home.
I’ll try to be patient……….