Hillary Clinton supporter and a big, beefy VP choice for her, according to Chris Matthews.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell killed it:
Governor Rendell opened his mansion to cable and telecom lobbyists and stomped out competitive local efforts to provide broadband access at a price more Pennsylvanians could afford. Don’t try to undercut Verizon’s bottom line, Ed said. And with the stroke of his pen, the Governor served his true master, signing a bill that stripped citizens of the right to choose their own Internet future.
The bill was an industry-drafted sprawl of corporate concessions that effectively killed efforts statewide to provide citywide wireless access at little or no charge to the public. The problem, according to the Bill’s principal sponsors, Verizon and Comcast, was that community-supported wireless posed a “significant threat” to their multi-billion-dollar hold on broadband access across the state. Why allow for local competition and innovation when you can shut it down via well-funded connections in the governor’s mansion?
MSNBC political pundit Tucker Carlson, his prime time show ‘Tucker’ handed to Karl Rove’s dance partner, David Gregory, remains with the network as a roving expert. This afternoon, he commiserated with other commentators that the networks are staring down a 6-week long dry patch as Hillary Clinton focuses on the Pennsylvania primary since in all likelihood she’s lost Mississippi, Indiana and North Carolina to Barack Obama. Ed Rendell will likely be asked often for his expert opinion on how his state is shaping up, always a pro-Clinton statement, until April 22 when the primary finally takes place.
Will even one bored, so-called journalist ask Rendell for a response to reports that he killed affordable broadband access in Pennsylvania and the status of Rendell’s long-standing relationship to Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen?
Will they report how much these same telecoms and associates have contributed to the Clinton and Obama campaigns?
Will either Clinton or Obama visit the Philadelphia school districts affected by Rendell’s greed, walk through the metal detectors, and explain to students why affordable broadband access was taken from them by a stroke of Rendell’s pen?