Who needs lobbyists anyway?

[KB1OKL]

Strew-Bull must be making good money, 11,000.00 in contributions in 2007-2008 to NAB, Consumer Electronics Association, and Dingell for Congress,...hmmm, what happened to that FCC investigation anyway? I guess you don't need lobbyists when you can throw money around like that to win friends and influence people. Jeffrey Jury also threw a few bucks of his own at the CEA.

http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=io&cycle=08&criteria=ibiquity

 

[clouseau]

Strew-Bull must be ...

Hey KB,

The class resolved to move up a grade about two weeks ago.

It's OK. You can leave your "Boobies" behind.

Seriously, dude, it's 48 hours and no one answered you. Wonder why?



Clouseau

 

[KB1OKL]

Strew-Bull must be ...

Hey KB,

The class resolved to move up a grade about two weeks ago.

It's OK. You can leave your "Boobies" behind.

Seriously, dude, it's 48 hours and no one answered you. Wonder why?



Clouseau

You did.

 

[clouseau]

You got your reply posted before I cleaned up this one...

11,000.00 in contributions in 2007-2008 to NAB, Consumer Electronics Association, and Dingell for Congress,...hmmm, what happened to that FCC investigation anyway? I guess you don't need lobbyists when you can throw money around like that to win friends and influence people. Jeffrey Jury also threw a few bucks of his own at the CEA.

http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=io&cycle=08&criteria=ibiquity

What are you alluding to here, KB? Many people, Self included, support political candidates or causes. If you look at Dingel's donations, 'Black Hills Surgery Center/Physicia' employees donated $10,000 alone. Strubel had $2000.

Does it strike you that odd that people support their personal causes? I would suspect it shouldn't.

You're laughing at $11,000 worth of contributions as being excessive, it would seem. Well it's a little high for me, but I have donated close to that much a year in the past, depending on the issues. Assuming Strubel makes $220,000 a year, that's 5%. I DIDN'T make $200K, but I sure as heck have done 5%..

Bob ain't God, but where I come from "The Big Guy" gets 10%.

I'm missing the point here I guess...

Clouseau

 

[Carmine5]

11K, is that all?!

You'd think with all the perks, breaks, back rubs and limo rides (figuratively speaking) iBiquity has gotten from the government, Struble and Jury would be a little more generous.

11K seems downright stingy. You can't buy much influence in D.C. with 11K.

C5

 

[KB1OKL]

11K, is that all?!

You'd think with all the perks, breaks, back rubs and limo rides (figuratively speaking) iBiquity has gotten from the government, Struble and Jury would be a little more generous.

11K seems downright stingy. You can't buy much influence in D.C. with 11K.

C5

Well in this case it certainly seems to have bought immunity from analog stations' complaints, IBOC is still here despite it being a miserable failure.

 

[hipporadio]

Bobby Stumble has obviously “gone the route”—passing money that ISN’T HIS around to “buy time”—and I’m not talking about 60-second spots : iNiquity has pursued a finance scheme [or three-or five] that likely would not past muster [or legality], but should we be surprised given the activities of those that keep them on life support. “HD Radio” is a “bottom feeder” in the consumer electronics world... DEFECTIVE and DESTRUCTIVE “technology” that has little [if any] consumer support and professional acceptance that is limited to a now “penny stock cadre” of failed corporate so-called broadcasters faced with the reality that their 45 mil 4th FM is near worthless.

All this would be funny if it weren’t so damn serious!

 

[clouseau]

Bobby Stumble has obviously “gone the route”—passing money that ISN’T HIS around to “buy time”—and I’m not talking about 60-second spots : iNiquity has pursued a finance scheme [or three-or five] that likely would not past muster [or legality], but should we be surprised given the activities of those that keep them on life support. “HD Radio” is a “bottom feeder” in the consumer electronics world... DEFECTIVE and DESTRUCTIVE “technology” that has little [if any] consumer support and professional acceptance that is limited to a now “penny stock cadre” of failed corporate so-called broadcasters faced with the reality that their 45 mil 4th FM is near worthless.

All this would be funny if it weren’t so damn serious!

My, aren't we making a leap of faith. Charging on a public forum that a private citizen is "Passing money that isn't his" and claiming ibiquity" has a financing scheme that is illegal.

One can only assume you have personal knowledge not available to the public to make these wildly actionlble claims. It would only be fair to allow you the opportuinty to explain to us why you believe Robert Strubel is personally donating "others" money.

Care to clairify?

Clouseau

 

[clouseau]

Obviously, Bobby's endless money trough is kept full by his investors, licensing fees, and those few HD receiver sales, in reward for his endless antics. It doesn't matter where the money came from, but where the money ended up and who was in control of it. To think that his donations to Rep. Dingell and the CEA couldn't be retrieved on the Internet is pretty naive. All is cool - it is out on the Internet for all to see!

Yeah, the fact that he donated some of his personal salary is completely bogus. In fact, the mere fact he receives compensation at all is probably criminal, right?

I'm real close to the last guy on Earth to suppord Dingell, but it scares the bejeezez out of me that you think somehow personal contributions to politics or whatever are evil. As with many here, your anger is misdirected and the results are scary to think about.

Clouseau

 

[KB1OKL]

about.

Clouseau

Here he is to save the day!
Inspector Clouseau's on his way!

Nice of you to visit the "cesspool" Inspector.
I would think that this place would be beneath you considering your rather low opinion of it. Ah, I get it, Strew-Bull must be paying people to fight for his precious i-Block money making scam, and actually the "cesspool" as you call it is on both sides of every AM iBlock station that Bobby Strew-Bull and Co. suck money out of in the biggest scam of the 21st century.
Politics is a funny thing, you want something to pass you pay the right people and bingo you buy your support, something fundamentally wrong with a system like that. Hopefully someday we will see lobbyists as a relic of a long gone crooked era.