Mel might do better with the Democrats, than he has with the Republicans. Take a look at his political contributions. He's no dyed in the wool Republican. Maybe that's why (in part) they strung him along for so long. He did hire former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie to lobby for the merger. No one on the outside looking in can say how effective that was. Now we have discovered that Goldman Sachs has maintained the golden ticket with Paulson and Bushco,
and the Cramer angle, (in addition to what we already knew about Clear Channel and the NAB), we can see that Karmazin was fighting a bigger battle on more fronts than previously thought. You think Kevin Martin or any other high-powered Republican official ever considered Mel Karmazin to be one of the boys?
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