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Another ex-congressman for Comcast
Posted: June 8, 2010 | Tags: Comcast, lobbyists, NBC
Chalk up another former member of Congress to Comcast Corp.’s lobbying team. Ron Klink, now president of Klink and Associates, is registered to lobby for the cable company, according to records.
Klink, a Democrat, was a member of Congress from the state of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 2000 and a former television broadcaster. He lobbied for the cable company in the first quarter of 2010.
In a piece published jointly with Politico, the Investigative Reporting Workshop reported last month that 78 former government employees registered as Comcast lobbyists in the final quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, including four other former members of Congress: Reps. Robert Walker (R-Pa.), who is referred to as “Congressman Walker” on his firm’s website; William Gray (D-Pa.); Chip Pickering (R-Miss.), and former Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.).
Meanwhile, General Electric, which stands to make $6.5 billion from selling its stake in NBC Universal, has hired former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., along with 18 other ex-government officials, to lobby for the deal, according to a review of records.
Check out our chart of former high-level government employees lobbying the merger.
