BREAKING: George Allen casts deciding vote against net neutrality

By: Rob
Published On: 6/28/2006 4:40:22 PM

The Snowe-Dorgan amendment just failed on a tie 11-11 vote. Allen voted against the amendment, siding with big telecom and against consumers' non-discriminatory access to the Internet.

[UPDATE: Remember, yesterday that Allen voted against new funding for first responder communications.  Also, Matt Stoller notes where G. Felix Allen Jr. may have come from - telecom PACs.]


Comments



He's gone (Josh - 6/28/2006 5:08:41 PM)
This means war.


Allen just declared War on the Internet (David M - 6/28/2006 5:09:50 PM)
Time to spank Felix even harder!


OOOOOOOOH, Felix.... (phriendlyjaime - 6/28/2006 5:40:35 PM)
That's a bad wittle kitty Felix...


Link? (Bubby - 6/28/2006 5:50:58 PM)
Allen has something on his webb site about legislating "access fees".


Found it, here: (Bubby - 6/28/2006 5:58:07 PM)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6348269.html


concerning "Felix" (JD - 6/28/2006 6:31:47 PM)
This is off-topic, but I'm too much a newbie to post a diary just yet...

Why not just call Felix "George"?  He and Bush are the same person anyhow. Making fun of a goofy middle name might make us look bad, and every time we use that name, we miss an opportunity to paint him as a rubber stamp. 

Wouldn't it be great for the entire Webb campaign, from the netroots on up, to just refer to the opponent as "George"? 

I can see the bumper stickers now:  "Vote for Change, not George," "Webb = Future, George = Past," etc.



GeorgeBushAllen (Josh - 6/28/2006 6:46:14 PM)
I've been doing this for a while:  GeorgeBushAllen, but the Felix thing really is just too damned good.

George Felix Allen Jr. isn't just a weaker, paler, more sadistic George Walker Bush.  He's his own brand of fake.

When did Connecticuit and California become southern states?



Oh, and Welcome (Josh - 6/28/2006 6:48:13 PM)
Don't be afraid to comment, question or even post a diary if you get the bug.

;)



Interesting Christian Coalition position (PM - 6/28/2006 6:55:53 PM)
Christian Coalition Beats Bushes for Neutrality
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/28/2006 5:19:00 AM
Fearing network neutrality amendments are about to be defeated in the Senate Commerce Committee, the Christian Coalition sent out an e-mail alert to members Tuesday night.

Without strong language proscribing discrimination in access, they argue, "T]here is nothing to stop cable and phone companies from not allowing you to access speech that they oppose!"

Stevens is thought to have the votes to pass a communications reform/video franchising reform bill out of committee without strong network neutrality language.

The Internet access issue has made strange bedfellows of some groups, uniting consumer groups, computer giants, gun owners and the Christian Coalition, the latter two particularly because the Internet has been an effective lobbying tool for them--as the coalition was hoping to demonstrate via its alert--and they fear networks could disadvantage online speech they dislike.

The coalition asked their members to e-mail committee Republicans John McCain (AZ), Trent Lott (MS), Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), George Allen (VA), Gordon Smith (OR), Ben Nelson (NE), and Mark Pryor (AR) to tell them to vote for net neutrality amendments, particularly ones backed by Senators Olympia Snow (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (N-ND).

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And welcome to the newbie, too, who brought up the Felix point.  It's a good point, but we're just having some fun.

Just don't put up any mocking images of Felix Mendelssohn!  (Course I really do like Felix Unger -- I mean Tony Randall-- too.)

So, when is someone more technically adept than me going to photoshop "Boy George"?



George Felix Allen, Jr is in the pockets of the telcos (JennyE - 6/28/2006 7:12:52 PM)
Bought and paid for:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00009957&cycle=2006



$7.5 M from "individuals"!! (Bubby - 6/28/2006 8:05:23 PM)
Thanks Jenny. The vast majority of Allen's contributions ($7,500,000)are from "individuals"?  Huh.  Shades of MZM Inc. and Mitch Wade's arm-twisted employees.