Comcast Recruits Its Beneficiaries to Lobby for Time Warner Deal
(NY Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html
A similar pattern is evident with charities like the Urban League and
more than 80 other community groups that supported the media company
and that also accepted collectively millions of dollars in donations
from the Comcast Foundation over the last five years, documents
reviewed by The Times show. The Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce, for instance, received $95,000 from Comcast over the last
three years. What is clear is that Comcast has tried to make the most
of these endorsements. Varsovia Fernandez, the president and chief
executive of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, wrote a letter to the
Federal Communications Commission, as well as a commentary piece in
The Philadelphia Daily News, titled, "Comcast Deserves a Fair Shake."
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