Kevin Martin, Our Next Governor?
Submitted by George Pence on Thu, 12/14/2006 - 5:56pm
Kevin Martin (to your left, but leaning right) is currently the chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to that he was a special assistant to George W. Bush, prior to that he worked as a telecommunications lobbyist for Wiley Rein & Fielding, and prior to that he worked for Kenneth Star in the office of the Special Prosecutor.
Evidently what he wants to do next is be Governor of North Carolina.
Martin has made a name for himself as an eager de-regulator whose chief interests are approving big time mergers and stringently enforcing decency standards in broadcasting. It is the first of these two interests that has brought him to national attention.
According to John Nichols, writing in The Capitol Times, Kevin Martin is eager to insure the support of the telecommunications industry as he prepares to run for governor of North Carolina. In order to fill his campaign coffers he has engaged in an ethically dubious maneuver to line up the necessary votes to approve a controversial merger between AT&T and BellSouth.
In a past episode of South Park Satan killed Kevin Martin and left him to lie dead for several frames. Evidently that was not enough. Now the Republican Party is ready to resurrect him and send him down to North Carolina.
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Please let him run!
For years I've been wanting to get my claws into one of the free-market lunatics responsible for our so-called wireless telecommunications industry.
If you've traveled in almost any other civilized country in the world, you've probably noticed that their cell phone service is outstanding. Here in the good old USA, however, it totally sucks. Why? Because in their infinite wisdom, FCC commissioners over the past 15 years have said "let competition work its magic" instead of establishing workable standards for nationwide service and interoperability.
So every time you drop a phone call on your cell phone, you can thank Mr. Martin and his free-market friends for the lousy service you're getting.
There are plenty of examples of where free-market fantasies have led to real disadvantages for the U.S. . . . but this is one of the best. And when Martin starts spewing his market mumbo-jumbo in a gubernatorial campaign, every voter will have the chance to call him on his crap.
Run Kevin Run!
Hi! This is Kevin! Is the voters home so I may chat with them?
So every time you drop a phone call on your cell phone, you can thank Mr. Martin and his free-market friends for the lousy service you're getting.* A
Maybe, But Gover Kevin is way ahead of the curve with cell phones. As the top pimp for hustling the industry around the State and Nation. He was the dude that promoted the GPS chip in the phone to save you from a flat tire breakdown, that little sucker can pinpoint you down to 5 feet of your call to AAA for service or maybe some bad dude in the trunk jumping you for some ATM bucks in the middle of the night.
Or better yet, Maybe some Orwellian Homeland security dude who might want to know where you are?
Orwellian Kevin other cute little trick was getting the feds to merge all wire taps into one search or court order, ie...just one order, [Patriot ACT 1] when the feds bugs your phone.
Before that, they had to have one order for every phone provider, which was tons of paper work to the phones companies. Besides the "person of interest" could have several land lines phones or cells to different providers, which could take forever for the feds to find them.
Finally, Gover "Termiator" Kevin came up with this little jewel to really close the books on those dirty "persons of interest."
How about no tapping court order at all? [Patriot ACT 2]
I can see Gover Kevin campaign Vonage motto " I am listening to you"
Just what we need....
Special Assistant to GWB means he is an ass-kissing moron. Does he also belong to the Christian Coalition?