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[Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com>]

The bill's on deck for next week, June 1st. Here's the invite I sent out 
to the Bring Google Fiber to Raleigh Facebook group:

Here we go again. David Hoyle's (D-Gaston) S.1209 bill that will block 
any municipal Internet, broadband stimulus funds, and/or Google Fiber 
projects will be brought to a vote. We scared the bill away yesterday 
but its coming back.

We've got another chance to tell our state senators NO. Tell your 
senator that, contrary ...to what Hoyle says, fiber doesn't become 
obsolete. Our cities are investing in technology that could easily pay 
off for a hundred years! Fiber is North Carolina's next-generation 
digital highway and the LAST thing we need is to tie the hands of our 
cities investing in their digital future with more red tape!

Please call your senators NOW and make plans to join us at this Senate 
Finance Committee meeting.

Thanks for everyone's efforts yesterday. Our efforts are CLEARLY getting 
people's attention - let's keep it up until June 1st!

Mark Turner
Bring Google Fiber to Raleigh

Thomas Beckett wrote:
> Mark Turner wrote:
> > Hoyle's bill WAS pulled today, thanks to everyone's efforts! However, 
> > it's not dead yet and is expected to return in a slightly different form 
> > in the next week or two.
>
> This is my concern.  Sounds like it wasn't "pulled" so much as "ducked 
> out of sight".  Please do let us know about what happens with it.  And 
> thanks for your efforts!
>
> Thomas