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DC Revolving Door: Ex-FCC Commissioner Is Now Head CTIA Lobbyist

Posted by timothy on from the but-they're-so-well-versed-in-it dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Up until three years ago, Meredith Attwell Baker was an Obama-appointed FCC commissioner. Now she's the newly minted CEO of the CTIA, the nation's largest lobbying group for the mobile phone industry. How can we expect regulators to keep a careful watch over industries when high-paying jobs in those industries await them after retirement? One of the most damning sentences in that article: 'More than 80 percent of FCC commissioners since 1980 have gone on to work for companies or groups in the industries they used to regulate.'"

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  1. 80% of people working in a field by maliqua · · Score: -1, Troll

    when they leave the place they work for, move to companies in a similar field?

    wow

    people with a knowledge of telecom/rf going on to work at telco's unpossible

    1. Re:80% of people working in a field by QuantumPion · · Score: 1, Troll

      Regulator and lobbyists do not have a 'field', their skills are not related to any particular domain or technology.

      Yes we must purge the FDA of all doctors, the NRC of all engineers, FWS of all biologists, etc because clearly they are all beholden to their special interests and thus can't be trusted.