I don’t think it has anything specifically to do with the McCain-Iseman story. But when I saw Paxson Communications’ name come up as the main lobbying client on behalf of whom Iseman was trying to entice McCain, I couldn’t help but remember the reporting I’d done on these gamesters back in the beginning of the decade. Back in 2001 Paxson was the lead local TV station owner trying to squeeze tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars out of taxpayers based on their bogus claims to ownership of gobs of broadcast spectrum — just the sort of high-stakes taxpayer rip-off that it pays to have a lot of lawmakers in your pocket to pull off.
Here’s the article.
