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Mitch Bainwol To Succeed Hilary Rosen As RIAA Head

Posted by timothy on from the connections-and-pull dept.

bmarklein writes "The RIAA has announced that it has named Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, as chairman & CEO. He replaces Hilary Rosen, who left earlier this month. This confirms the speculation that the RIAA would appoint a well-connected Republican (Rosen was a Democrat)." Several readers have submitted links to CNET's coverage as well. Update: 07/29 12:30 GMT by J : Lobbyists wield incredible power nowadays, and Slate's report on why was enlightening. Here's part 1 and part 2. Includes lyrics to the rap recorded for Rosen's going-away party by some of the most powerful people in the world: "Who wants the job of Hilary Rosen? / How 'bout the dream team of Bono and Tauzin?"

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  1. Re:Former? by Alton_Brown · · Score: 2, Informative

    To the best of my knowledge, he left to go to the more profitable private sector. He was chief of staff for Frist for a short period of time before being chosen as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign. Later he served as chief of staff for the Republican National Committee. With his experience, contacts and an MBA he saw an opportunity to form his own consulting firm, the Bainwol Group. From there he took the RIAA job. I can almost guarantee you he never made anything close to $1 million a year in any government job. Successful government folks leave all the time to take advantage of their momentum. Ari Fleischer recently did a similar thing to start his own firm. There's not always an evil subplot (though there might be) ;)

  2. Re:Hey by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm too lazy to find it, but my favorite first post was someone who posted to the topic "What would happen if 99% of computers on the internet were destroyed?" The first poster wrote "Easy... that's 99% fewer computers to beat me to the first post!" It was funny, on topic, and it was the first post. But it still got modded troll....

  3. Re:Hey by sirinek · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was a loooong time ago, but there was a story posted about someone, I think it was an Apple higher-up, and the first post was that guy and his post of simply "Yup."

    (Im too lazy to look it up too)