- "President Obama has picked a former telecommunications lobbyist and campaign fund-raiser to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, raising serious questions about his 2007 pledge that corporate lobbyists would not finance his campaign or run his administration." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/opinion/tom-wheeler-an-industry-man-for-the-fcc.html?smid=re-share 3 comments politics