From: Esme Vos <esme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 19, 2004 12:21:16 PM PST
To: Dewayne Hendricks
Subject: Pennsylvania Senate passes odious bill: it's up to the
Governor
Dewayne,
Verizon and the cable/DSL mafia are going to get their wishes unless
Governor Rendell vetos this bill. My latest post on Muniwireless
(http://www.muniwireless.com/archives/000503.html)
Pennsylvania Senate passes House Bill 30: call the Governor and tell
him to
veto
I rarely do these things - tell people to call governors to tell them
to
veto bills - but this one is really important. The Pennsylvania Senate
passed House Bill 30 which prohibits municipalities from delivering
telecommunications services for compensation if it competes with
private
enterprise. The bill is now awaiting signature by Governor Rendell but
he
has grave reservations about the proposed law and won't sign it unless
significant revisions are made, notably to the prohibition on
municipalities
offering telecoms services.
Tell the Gov you don't want this bill to become law and tell him
they've got
to take that section banning munis from offering telecoms services.
It's not
that I think munis should be offering these types of services, rather I
believe they should have the option of doing so, especially where
there is a
duopoly (one cable and one DSL operator).
Telephone Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania at (717) 787-2500.