Vikki Taylor is a market trustee. Her story is buried below the headline
How Congress Benefits from Corporate Flights.
BellSouth's internal documents, covering 2002 through 2005, were provided by Vicki Taylor, who has worked for 15 years as a secretary in BellSouth's Washington lobbying office. Taylor, 53, said she sought out reporters because she was concerned about company practices she believed violated internal expense-account rules. She is now on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
I met Ms Taylor while on route to find out what John Edward is up to and research the proposed merger of Franken-ATT and Bell South ... Edwards seems to be squandering his political credits ... And The Deal is an anti-trust rollover of a magnitude not seen since society perv JP Morgan backed Comstock's bid to takeover USPS.
OK. That was remark was OTT and inelegant. It's serves only to illustrate my near incoherent outrage. Just when new entrants and broadband technologies are enabling consumer demands, Shrub LLP hack economists and trade enforcers are set to close the lid. This deal is so wrong in so many ways -- especially considering AT&T retarded business history and that telco and cable lobbies are joined at the hip to the "tollbooth" upside -- I'm amazed no NGO has stepped up to testify ... at least.
The USAToday article is another "me, too" report for Congressional reform.
It was a busy weekend last November for the flight crew of BellSouth's corporate jet. Over three days, they crisscrossed the Southeast, ferrying six U.S. senators, two of their wives, a trio of political consultants and two of the company's Washington lobbyists to Republican and Democratic fundraising events.
What interested me was that the
yahoo! syndicated version embeds links to Taylor's scanned documentation of Bell-South largesse, 2002-2004. Ordinarily, both insiders and outsiders depend on
PoliticalMoneyLine ($2,625 per annual subscription) for data.
So who is Vicki Taylor, this 53 y.o. "secretary"? Who gave her the right to disclose private information?