Report: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Their Vote on FISA Bill

I’ve never heard of the site MAPlight.org until today (via Slashdot). “Money and Politics. Illuminating the connection,” is their tagline. This is the report they issued which got the attention.  Apparently your average representitive will sell out the constitution for a mere $4,000. That seems a paltry sum, so something is weird here. Is it really so cheap? This seems to just be the top of a smelly iceberg.  Here’s an excerpt from the report:

Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint gave PAC contributions averaging:

• $8,359 to each Democrat who changed their position to support immunity for Telcos (94 Dems)
• $4,987 to each Democrat who remained opposed to immunity for Telcos (116 Dems)

88 percent of the Dems who changed to supporting immunity (83 Dems of the 94) received PAC contributions from Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint during the last three years (Jan. 2005-Mar. 2008). See [the report] for list of these 94 Dems.

SPOTLIGHT: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Their Vote on FISA Bill | MAPLight.org

 

 

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