Dish Network Head Has Strong Ties to Democrats

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By  USDR

 

Dish Network claims that they dropped the nation’s number one cable news network because of a contract dispute.  Fox News disagrees, claiming that the move is an effort by Dish Network to censor their content. Digging into the background of Dish Network’s Founder and Chairman Charles Ergen may help to illuminate why animosity between Dish and FNC has reached such epic proportions.

 

 

Ergen may have a history of abusing his position of power to promote his political preferences. In 2012, a federal complaint was filed against Ergen in which several company executives alleged that he had intimidated them into making contributions to specific candidates, the majority of which were Democrats.

 

 

The claim was filed by an unnamed company insider who accused Ergen of “forcing” Dish Network’s Chief Operating Officer Bernard Han to donate to a Democratic Party candidate in the 2009/2010 election cycle.

 

 

Ergen is a big-time donor to the Democratic Party.  According to Open Secrets, Ergen donated a total of $64,000 to the Democratic Senatorial campaign Committee in 2014. In the 2014 cycle Ergen gave almost exclusively to Democratic candidates particularly to endangered Senate Democrats including Kay Hagen(NC), Mark Pryor (ARK.),  Mark Warner (Va) and Mark Begich (Alaska).

 

 

 

 

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