Senator Jerry Moran Removes Himself As A PROTECT IP Co-Sponsor

from the good-for-him dept

Wed, Jul 6th 2011 12:40pm — Mike Masnick

As the march to pass PROTECT IP has continued, Senator Patrick Leahy has been able to bring on board some additional Senators as "sponsors" of the bill. However, at least one may be having second thoughts. SD points us to the news that Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas came on as a sponsor on June 23rd... but then withdrew his sponsorship four days later on the 27th. I have no idea if this was an error or if Senator Moran realized that this bill had serious problems. I have a request in to the Senator's office for more info and will update this post once we know more.

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Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 1:00pm

Mike, have you put in for a comment with tha flithy crook we call our senator here in VT? I'd like to hear his reasoning on this, I'm betting it has something to do with his massive campaign contributions from the RIAA and MPAA.
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- Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 2:49pm
  
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  Amen to a fellow Vermonter! (there really are not that many of us :). )
  
  satisfying to know that i'm not the only one up here sickened by our senior senator devoting so much energy to defending the major hollywood studios based over in burlington!
  
  keep up the good fight!
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 1:25pm

I know I emailed Moran asking him to oppose the bill, and got an actual non form letter back thanking me for my input and saying he'd heard from a number of his other constituents on the subject of this bill recently too, so it may be a senator actually listening to the voters who elected him.
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- Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 2:02pm
  
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  Did he say he was going to vote against it?
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- Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 2:22pm
  
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  it may be a senator actually listening to the voters who elected him
  
  That's a shoe in for the funniest comment this week.
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Dan (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 1:28pm

Just mailed Durbin...
I just sent an e-mail off to Dick Durbin (D-IL) announcing my displeasure with his name being on the co-sponsor list.
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- btrussell (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 1:48pm
  
  Re: Just mailed Durbin...
  If only we could get all the dicks removed from the list.
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  - Dark Helmet (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 2:21pm
    
    Re: Re: Just mailed Durbin...
    For purely non-selfish reasons, let's start w/all the IL politicians and work our way outward....
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Kaden (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 1:58pm

I guess the cheque didn't clear.
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Jul 2011 @ 4:06pm

He got a brain!
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Greevar (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 5:14pm

He might be smarter than the average senator.
Maybe he's not such a moran after all?
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- Jay (profile), 6 Jul 2011 @ 7:29pm
  
  Re: He might be smarter than the average senator.
  *groans and facepalms*
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