The New Yorker, last May: “Obama’s Bad Pick: A Former Lobbyist at the F.C.C.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-bad-pick-a-former-lobbyist-at-th

The New Yorker, last May: “Obama’s Bad Pick: A Former Lobbyist at the F.C.C.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-bad-pick-a-former-lobbyist-at-the-f-c-c http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-bad-pick-a... “Rewarding campaign contributors is par for the course in Washington, of course. Usually, though, the prizes are ambassadorships or appointments to obscure boards rather than the chairmanship of a big federal regulatory agency. That’s another thing that makes Wheeler’s appointment look like just the sort of Washington inside job that Obama used to decry as a candidate. […] Perhaps the best that can be said about his nomination is that, assuming he’s confirmed, he’ll have an incentive to demonstrate that he isn’t a patsy for the companies he used to lobby for.”