Comcast and AT&T Stuff Millions Into Lawmaker Pockets

In just the second quarter of 2009, Comcast doled out nearly $3.3 million dollars of their subscribers' money lobbying elected officials on a myriad of issues, covering everything from executive compensation to sports channels to unionizing efforts. Meanwhile, Brian Dickerson, a columnist at the Detroit Free Press has also been noticing that AT&T, promising to bring competition to Comcast in cities like Detroit, came at the price of a Trojan horse called "statewide franchising."