Senator Sinema’s Letter To Constituents Looks Like It Was Written By A Telecom Lobbyist

Sen Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has doubled-down on her unwillingness to support the Save the Internet Act and overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality. In a letter to constituents, the senator brushes off concerns from citizens asking her to restore net neutrality by parroting cynical, oft-refuted talking points pushed out by broadband internet access service providers' lobbyists, astroturf nonprofits, and Big Telecom-funded lawmakers. Senator Sinema writes that “reclassifying broadband providers under laws designed in the 1930s for utilities may have serious unintended consequences,” which bears an eerie resemblance to things said by the country’s most aggressive telecom shills.