California Legislature Is AT&T's Bought-And-Paid-For Sexytime Gal
The following is just the infographic from the Los Angeles Times's excellent and sick-making and excellently sick-making story on the political access enjoyed in Sacramento by hard-thrusting lege-lovers AT&T.
$8,875,539.91
AT&T political contributions in California
$791,868.40
AT&T expenditures on tickets and meals for state lawmakers and staffs
$225,001.43
Total AT&T spent on 2011 Speaker's Cup at Pebble Beach
$89,749.37
What AT&T spent on iPads at Apple store last year for Speaker's Cup attendees
$14,406.76
AT&T's average daily lobbying expenditure
120
Number of current California legislators who have received political donations from AT&T
120
Number of current California legislators
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Congress seems like a blue light special in comparison.
California State Legislature. Yep, there's an ATT for that.
Ironically, the legislative access cost a lot more than AT&T expected because the first 1000 minutes of lobbying are included, but additional minutes are 45 cents, except on weekends or with individual legislator on their Friends & Family Top Ten list (only available with Premium Plus™ plan).
Plus you need to bribe the local pols for the zoning decisions that allow you to put up the towers. Assuming you had the necessary spectrum allocations from the FEC (you didn't think the T-Mobile merger was about the Anne Hathaway lookalike did you?)