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The group's attorney, Philip Macres of Klein Law Group, told Ars today that he is "not at liberty to provide the list of all the members in the Coalition of RDOF Winners."

You want to lobby the government for a sweetheart deal because you failed at risk management, but you also want to keep all your reputational capital? How about NO. The ethical deficit in many business entities is contemptible.

I forgot to add that there's something fundamentally sketchy about the idea of government being lobbied by anonymous or quasi-anonymous entities. It's an invitation to corruption. Suppose you reasonably suspect a politician has been bribed (due to a sudden about-face or laughably poor argumentation for a legislative change); it's much harder to investigate when you can't even identify who is lobbying.

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