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Regulators are going to the Dark Side
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Revolving door regulators
are protecting their
employers instead of people
Revolving door regulators are protecting their employers instead of people
Meredith Atwell-Baker Rachelle Chong
Four months after approving the controversial and anticompetitive
merger of Comcast and NBC, the same Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) executive who voted in favor of the Comcast
merger was hired by the company she was supposed to be regulating.
Meredith Atwell Baker is now a Senior Vice President of Governmental
Affairs at NBC. She went from regulating NBC and Comcast, to working
for them as a lobbyist in less than four months.
Unfortunately, the revolving door that exists between regulators and
the regulated is spinning faster than ever.
Rachelle Chong, the first sitting CPUC Commissioner in California to be
denied a gubernatorial reappointment because of her anti-consumer
positions, has landed a new job (surprise, surprise) with Comcast – as
Regional Vice President of Government Affairs. Comcast is generally
considered to be one of the worst cable and phone service companies
in America.
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