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By Jake Johnson | Salon
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the only Senate Democrat who has not co-sponsored legislation to restore net neutrality, reportedly has financial ties to a super PAC directed by a lobbyist for Comcast, a fervent opponent of open internet protections.
Sludge’s Donald Shaw reported Thursday that a possible reason behind Sinema’s refusal to join her Democratic colleagues in backing the Save the Internet Act “may be her relationship with a ‘dark money’ nonprofit called Center Forward that receives substantial funding from cable and telecom industry trade groups and its affiliated super PAC, Center Forward Committee, which is run by a Comcast lobbyist.”
“Sinema directed a six-figure donation to Center Forward Committee through a centrist PAC that she used to chair just weeks before the group made big independent expenditures to support Sinema’s campaigns,” according to Shaw.
Telecom industry lobbying groups have given Center Forward “substantial and consistent donations,” Sludge found in a review of tax documents.
