{"id":20479,"date":"2015-04-21T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20479"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:43:56","slug":"markey-franken-senate-colleagues-call-on-federal-regulators-to-block-massive-comcast-time-warner-cable-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/21\/markey-franken-senate-colleagues-call-on-federal-regulators-to-block-massive-comcast-time-warner-cable-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Markey, Franken, Senate Colleagues Call on Federal Regulators to Block Massive Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Markey <a title=\"Markey's Facebook post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EdJMarkey\/posts\/10152910017966379\" target=\"_blank\">posted on his Facebook page<\/a> about his press relelase <a title=\"Ed Markey's press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/-markey-franken-senate-colleagues-call-on-federal-regulators-to-block-massive-comcast-time-warner-cable-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Markey, Franken, Senate Colleagues Call on Federal Regulators to Block Massive Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal<\/a>.\u00a0 You can join the conversatio on his Facebook page where he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Comcast-Time Warner mega merger would give Comcast too much market power and lead to fewer choices, higher prices, and even worse service for consumers in Massachusetts and across the U.S. I joined with Senators Al Franken, Senator Ron Wyden Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren &amp; Senator Richard Blumenthal in urging DOJ &amp; FCC to take a stand for U.S. consumers and businesses &amp; reject the Comcast-Time Warner massive merger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We in Sturbridge have been assuming the deal would go through, and as a result Comcast would take over for Charter here in Sturbridge.\u00a0 Maybe we don&#8217;t have tp assume it\u00a0 is a <a title=\"Definition of fait accompli\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl#q=fait+accompli\" target=\"_blank\">fait accompli<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Markey posted on his Facebook page about his press relelase Markey, Franken, Senate Colleagues Call on Federal Regulators to Block Massive Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal.\u00a0 You can join the conversatio on his Facebook page where he said: The Comcast-Time Warner mega merger would give Comcast too much market power and lead to fewer choices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20480,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions\/20480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}