[Ctabs] Fwd: Cable industry comes after Congress

[Kathryn Webster]

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> From: "Craig Aaron, FreePress.net" <info at freepress.net>
> Date: May 12, 2014 at 4:46:05 PM EDT
> To: "Kathryn Webster" <Webskc13 at wfu.edu>
> Subject: Cable industry comes after Congress
> Reply-To: info at freepress.net
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Kathryn,
> 
> Usually we write and ask you to sign something.
> 
> But today we need your help to keep a letter from being signed.
> 
> The Free Press Action Fund has gotten its hands on a copy of the email being sent by a top cable lobbyist to members of Congress urging them to oppose “broadband reclassification” and real Net Neutrality.
> 
> Call Congress now and tell your rep: Don’t sign that letter!
> 
> Lobbyist Tom Downey — a former member of Congress now representing the National Cable and Telecommunications Association — is sending a note around on Capitol Hill that reads in part:
> 
> Downey McGrath Group represents the NCTA, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, and they have asked me to contact you regarding the current policy discussion on net neutrality.
> As you know the Federal Communications Commission is poised to take up this question later this week when Chairman Wheeler introduces his proposal on the issue. Congressman Gene Green is circulating the attached letter to the Commission asking that the Commission not reclassify broadband service as a Title II service.
> 
> Yep, that’s right. While the letter is nominally being circulated by a member of Congress, it’s the cable lobbyists themselves that are doing the real legwork.
> 
> Call Congress now and tell your rep: Don’t sign that letter!
> 
> You know your actions are making an impact when the cable lobby starts conspiring against you.
> 
> Your member of Congress needs to know that you know this letter was written and shopped around by the cable industry. And that signing it is unacceptable.
> 
> The cable industry has called the shots on Capitol Hill for too long. We need to remind our representatives who they really work for – and that we want nothing less than real Net Neutrality.
> 
> So please make the call. You know for sure the cable lobbyists are making theirs.
> 
> Onward,
> 
> Craig, Josh and the rest of the Free Press team
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