From Ed Bott:
Last month, I wrote about Sen. Rick Santorum’s bill to prevent the National Weather Service from freely sharing information it collects with the public. The beneficiary in this scheme would be private companies like AccuWeather, which just happens to be based in Santorum’s home state.
Today comes news that the timing of the bill was, shall we say, interesting:
Two days before Sen. Rick Santorum introduced a bill that critics say would restrict the National Weather Service, his political action committee received a $2,000 donation from the chief executive of AccuWeather Inc., a leading provider of weather data.Asked about the connection, the Senator replied: “I don’t think there’s any coincidence between the two.”
A refreshing, although almost certainly accidental, bit of truth-telling.