Retired Telco Exec Sent Sloppy AT&T Lobbying Letter - But insists he wrote it, despite 'XYZ Organization' slip up...But insists he wrote it, despite 'XYZ Organization' slip up... 09:08AM Tuesday Oct 27 2009 by Karl Bode tags: legal · competition · business · Oddities · net-neutrality · consumers · AT&T Last week we told you how some sloppy AT&T lobbying resulted in an Arkansas senior citizen group writing a form letter against net neutrality to the FCC, but forgetting some important details -- like replacing the form field "XYZ Organization" with an actual company name. Telecom companies frequently use a slew of existing or artificial groups to parrot company positions, giving the illusion of broad public support. Several users have subsequently written in to note that the letter signatory, and head of the "Arkansas Retired Seniors Coalition," unsurprisingly worked for Southwestern Bell for nearly thirty years. Mike Masnick at Techdirt has also been digging into the story, and notes that the man still claims he wrote the letter himself, for whatever that's worth.
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Sells, a 77-year-old retired public relations executive in Little Rock, tells MediaPost that he often writes letters with placeholders and fills in the correct text later, but overlooked the reference to XYZ in this case.