{"id":2865,"date":"2007-04-22T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2007-04-22T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T07:34:00","slug":"att_lobbying_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2865","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Lobbying Investments (rather than fiber networks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T, parent of troubled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/007626.php\">Cingular Wireless<\/a>, continues to invest in non-network related initiatives, as this article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=594368\">Steven Walters illustrates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>AT&#038;T doles out $54,000 ahead of cable bill debate<\/p>\n<p>Doyle, lawmakers say money won&#8217;t affect stands on deregulation legislation<\/p>\n<p>Communications giant AT&#038;T pushed a controversial bill to have state government license cable systems by showering more than $54,000 in campaign cash on dozens of lawmakers and Gov. Jim Doyle over the past 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign-finance records show that AT&#038;T&#8217;s political action committee gave a total of $10,000 to four legislators and the Assembly Republican Campaign Committee in the past two months, when legislators negotiated details of the complex package with AT&#038;T&#8217;s 15 registered lobbyists.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T, parent of troubled Cingular Wireless, continues to invest in non-network related initiatives, as this article by Steven Walters illustrates: AT&#038;T doles out $54,000 ahead of cable bill debate Doyle, lawmakers say money won&#8217;t affect stands on deregulation legislation Communications giant AT&#038;T pushed a controversial bill to have state government license cable systems by showering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}