• House Democrats Who Haven’t Supported Net Neutrality Yet Have All Taken Money...
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3gx5/house-democrats-who-havent-supported-net-neutrality-yet-have-all-taken-money-from-telecoms  That resolution was then sent to the House, and the Democrats introduced a discharge petition, which, if it gets 218 signatures, will force the House to vote on the resolution even without the recommendation of a committee. The Dems have until December 10 to get 218 signatures, which would require every Democrat and a few Republicans. So far, they have 177 signatures (as of November 28).
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-9) - Comcast Interesting, she just got promoted to the Senate.
It's almost as if both parties don't give a shit about you and the government is actually your enemy.
As an AZ voter, her opponent was shockingly awful in comparison (also much more explicitly anti net-neutrality) so it was mostly inevitable. Most in this state aren't fans of Sinema, she's far too centrist for either side at the moment. It'll be interesting to see who she ultimately panders to the most. But hopefully she'll actually respond to emails and calls about these issues with actual care, compared to Jeff Flake who purposefully left his official voicemail full for like 4 years straight.
To be devil's advocate, I looked at the list and five or six people in the list are near or over 70, two are leaving Congress in January and one was a Republican until 2014, another chairs the Blue Dog coalition so he's a DINO. 11% (18/197) of Democrats being corrupt seems about right tbh.
God Flake is such a cunt. He never actually stood up for anything in this congress, 2 years and nothing. Even Rand Paul has a better track record than him, and he goes around acting like he's a hero for calling Trump out publicly, but he absolutely supports everything the republicans do, which is whatever Trump wants these days. Him and Kasich I just absolutely hate anymore because they seem to think that centrism is the correct path on binary choices.
To add some context to this point of view that seemingly so many agree with, 176 of the 177 votes for the discharge petition on net neutrality rules are Democrats, with a single Republican backing it.
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