{"id":4013,"date":"2006-08-08T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/08\/08\/ned-lamont-cable-company-magnate\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T21:48:54","slug":"ned-lamont-cable-company-magnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/ned-lamont-cable-company-magnate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned Lamont, Cable Company Magnate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWho knew that Markos&#8217;s man in Connecticutt, <a href=\"http:\/\/nedlamont.com\/\">Ned Lamont,<\/a> was an unreformed cable company monopolist?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it, it&#8217;s in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/08\/nyregion\/08cnd-campaign.html?hp&#038;ex=1155096000&#038;en=6e7fe1fab055b2ed&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Lamont, a cable television executive, planned to visit election precincts in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford, three cities where he is counting on a strong vote for his insurgent bid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose the dude is excited about &#8220;net neutrality,&#8221; do you?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be interesting to see how well the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\">digital brownshirts<\/a> do in expelling the DLC and thereby splitting the Democratic Party. Republicans are salivating for a Lamont victory, I can assure you.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that Markos&#8217;s man in Connecticutt, Ned Lamont, was an unreformed cable company monopolist? Don&#8217;t take my word for it, it&#8217;s in the New York Times: Mr. Lamont, a cable television executive, planned to visit election precincts in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford, three cities where he is counting on a strong vote for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/ned-lamont-cable-company-magnate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ned Lamont, Cable Company Magnate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-12J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}