Mad Money.(cable and telecommunications industry's spending to influence reforms)

Multichannel News, October, 2006

By Ted Hearn Cable, Phone, Net Companies Have Spent $110 Million This Year To Influence Telecom Reform. Was It Worth It? Washington-- On a cold evening in February, cable and telecommunications lobbyists packed the second floor of restaurant Bistro Bis on Capitol Hill to salute Mitch Rose's decision to leave an executive lobbying post at The Walt Disney Co.

and go into business for himself. Rose was a hot property because everyone in the room knew his old boss, Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), was drafting a telecommunications bill that ...