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Consumers for Cable Choice
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Consumers for Cable Choice describe themselves as "an alliance of consumer organizations across the nation committed to the development of a competitive, vibrant cable communications market" but is in actual fact an astroturf organization. Consumer For Cable Choice president Bob Johnson is an Indiana lawyer who also represents nearly two-dozen telecom firms. [1]
Funding
"Bob Johnson, the president of Consumers for Cable Choice, acknowledged having received $75,000 in startup funds from Verizon this summer and "a commensurate amount" from SBC." [2]
Contact details
http://www.consumers4choice.org
External links
- David Lazarus, Cable 'coalitions' sketchy, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2, 2005.
- Lyell Davies, Roll Out Astroturf Advocacy, Indymedia, Tuesday, Febuary 7, 2006.
