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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

I want to point out that the title and short title of this bill is 
completely misleading.  While S. 1209 is referred to as "No Nonvoted 
Local Debt For Competing System", the actual text of the bill makes no 
reference to any referendum or voter approval.  Instead, it imposes an 
absolute bar against local government construction or support of any 
broadband system.

Read it here:
http://ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1209v1.html

Thomas

Mark Turner wrote:
> 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
>
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