We can try for all the open documents and open gov we want, but until we stop the revolving door where you can be rewarded by corporate interests for your behavior as a bureaucrat, they’ll be rotten apples in midst.

Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who voted for the deal said on Wednesday that she would soon join Comcast’s Washington lobbying office.

Meredith Attwell Baker, a former Commerce Department official who worked on telecommunications issues in George W. Bush’s administration, announced that she would leave the F.C.C. when her term expires at the end of June. At Comcast, she will serve as senior vice president for government affairs for NBC Universal, which Comcast acquired in January.

via Meredith Attwell Baker Leaving F.C.C. to Join Comcast – NYTimes.com.