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Re: OT: How low can WorldCom stock go?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Liska)
Tue Jun 25 20:37:05 2002
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:36:19 -0400
From: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
Reply-To: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <AD74E2EC6D5BEA47BCB067EB69D30AD206A18211@petrified.mis.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello,
Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 8:27:12 PM, you wrote:
RAD> I keep waiting for someone to ask the FTC, SEC, etc., exactly what they've
RAD> been doing with their budgets for the past decade or so. Doesn't seem like
RAD> anyone has been minding the store except members of congress collecting
RAD> money from business interests with little, if any, attention to public
RAD> interest.
RAD> Enron was the number one contributor in the energy sector. Any bets on
RAD> WorldCom in the telecom sector?
In the 2002 Election cycle WorldCom has not cracked the top 20 to date:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B09&Cycle=2002
They were #16 in the 2000 election cycle:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B09&Cycle=2000
They also did not crack the top 20 in the 1998 election cycle:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=B09&Cycle=1998
I do find it interesting that Global Crossing was #1 in the 2000
election cycle, and is #2 to date in the 2002 election cycle. Not
surprising, but interesting.
Hope this helps, and hope that was not just a rhetorical question ;}.
allan
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