Revolving Door Between The MPAA And The Federal Government
from the how-you-get-laws-passed dept
Via Parker Higgins we learn of a graphical representation of the revolving door between the MPAA and the federal government from geke.us, purveyor of useful visuals to explain economic truths:![](https://i.imgur.com/q1NfP.jpg)
Not all of these are current, of course. Dan Glickman left well before Chris Dodd showed up, for example Still, it does give you an idea of why the MPAA always seemed to get its way with the government.
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Filed Under: chris dodd, dan glickman, graphic, revolving door
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Why isn't this illegal?
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Naturally...
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/46501576/Susan_Molinari_Named_Google_s_Lobbyist_in_Washington
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It's time!
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http://i41.tinypic.com/efrms1.png
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Aren't you the one who raves daily about a conspiracy between Mike and Google? At least one assertion has *some* proof, and it ain't yours...
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At this point I am waiting for the Revolution.Two big Parties and both are Corrupt.
You can't even Vote these Fuckers out.
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The Mightly Glickman
http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/about/dan-glickman
lol... that is just rich..
N.
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Hiring former politicians isn't necessarily a problem, hiring a former politician as a reward for behavior that is detrimental to their constituents or the nation at large is.
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If so, then this is also bad and we thank you for bringing it to our attention. If not, then it's yet another strawman attempt at misdirection. In that case, please try to understand the actual objection, I know it's difficult for you. It might also help to address objections with something other that "but Google!".
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The Fix
First: Outlaw campaign donations to incumbent candidates. Fund the campaigns with federal tax dollars. Pay for that by eliminating subsidies for industries that only have them because of their fantastic lobbying efforts and raising taxes on individuals and organizations that have unusually low tax rates.
Second: Have an automatic ethics review of any politician that gets hired by a private company for a salary greater than what they were making in congress. Create criminal punishments for violations of the ethics rules (I won't define those here), and have charges brought by the ethics review group and a jury trial to determine guilt.
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No, this isn't shocking, but it should be. That's the problem. There's nothing at all surprising about the openness of this form of corruption.
"There's got to be an evil conspiracy here somewhere."
There is no conspiracy. It's right out in the open. Parts of the government and large corporations are actively involved in influence peddling.
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if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
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Instaclone?
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Let's not forget...
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She' a Republican.
(Note, I am as disgusted with both sides of the isle, I just poke fun at Democrats more.)
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We don't kill ALL the lawyers... We need prosecutors to go after real criminals, like murderers, rapists, Chris Dodd, Cary Sherman, Bank of America, Wells Fargo...
We need lawyers to defend innocent people who get accused, like a falsely accused rapist or murderer, those elderly grandmothers, the dead, the puppy, that fax machine, and the girl that could barely walk from the MPAA and RIAA
The other lawyers, however, are fair game.
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They forgot Don Verrilli
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"This is what you can do"
"This is what you can't do"
IOt allows for some rather unorthodox rulesd-lawyering, but at least you'd know where the line was.
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Molinari was not a direct lobbyist, instead running a consulting firm that showed you how to lobby congress.
There are many such firms on K street, just walk down it and see all the different firms, lobbyist and consulting.
Dodd is the larger of the two whores here.
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The MPAA and others..
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/sarc
Mike, you need to join the real world!
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Law firms, Sports celebrities, Vietnam vets, Military, etc etc etc.
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I don't think he ever technically was employed by the MPAA. He merely represented them as a lawyer...
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