Freshmen Republican Has Wireless Ties
Rep.-elect Leonard Lance, R-N.J., has a district full of constituents with a wireless bent. His district includes employees for Verizon and Virgin Mobile’s headquarters. A telecom insider says the district also includes retired AT&T workers and Alcatel-Lucent employees. “As a state legislator, Leonard Lance encouraged competition within the high-tech industry, and specifically in the wireless and telecom sectors. As minority leader in the New Jersey legislature, he was the lead Republican co-sponsor of franchise reform encouraging competition that led to the introduction of FiOS TV to the state's residents,” said Jeffrey Nelson of Verizon Wireless. Nelson said the company’s previous headquarters were in Bedminster, N.J., which is in Lance’s district. The location is “still a major facility for us, with several hundred employees.” The company’s new headquarters is physically not in Lance’s district but is right on the line. Lance is also the old boss of Joseph Farren, spokesman for CTIA - The Wireless Association, when Farren served as deputy executive director of the New Jersey Senate Republican Office. -- Winter Casey
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