Verizon lobbyist 'furious' > Congress 1. Interests Groups 94585

Congress 1. Interests Groups 94585

Another names for corruption:
Lobbying, donations for campaigns, blacklisting.

Did I miss something?

Anyway, I'm happy that so far, congress has something to say. After all they should represent the people, not highest bidder.

Old Joke:
If pro is for, and con against,
What's the opposite of PROgress?
CONgress
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Private First Class of United States Marine Corps

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the count still stands at: Congress 0. Interests Groups 94585

This is the State legislature of West Virginia not the U.S. Congress.

Everyone always downs West Virginia for being ass-backwards and country but it seems their representatives are a helluva lot smarter than those of the other 49 states and the Distric of Columbia.

Good Job West Virginia!

reply to NPGMBR
No kidding, I still can't believe this is West Virginia pulling this off.
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4 More years and we won't have a country.

reply to Tomek
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

reply to Mike
Who woulda thunk it? West "By Gawd" Virginia doing it too. That's gotta be typo or something.
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Your resident hillbilly expert.

and if all these munis work (like Washington's UTOPIA, WV's project, and others) I hope that other states will learn from it and drop/block the muni ban bills.

reply to SRFireside
Sorry but you misunderstood what I said.

1) The state in question is West Virginia
2) What I meant was that NO other state has taken such a BOLD stance against lobbyists and actually looked at a piece of legislation before blindly making it law.

reply to xrobertcmx

So what's next? Black, Jew or Mexican Jokes?

reply to NPGMBR
Wow, west virginia is like the only state, (maybe louisiana) to tell the incumbant to go to hell... Pennsylvania tried, but VZ did the armtwisting polka, and some $$ killed (or reduced)the munis efforts there...

I'd be proud to get some of those west virginia (that's really a state in and of itself?) for my 50 state quarter collection...
They should redesign that quarter to read, FREE muni broadband for all, screw you verizon!
(Translated into southern gibberish for effect of course!)

reply to Captain_Avat
Oh lighten up. I was joking. Obviously WV is a little more progressive then what my state, Indiana was. At least WV told the lobbyists to go buzz off. My state got as far as voting on the bill.
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reply to cdru
Yep, my wife and I both have PCs here in WVa

reply to Mike
Finally someoen stands up. i wish Massachusetts would but, Verizon treats everyone but me good. That fact is broadband is the governments problem and they need to whoop some ass. Also we need get them people in PA FiOS Only some of PA got it, The Taxpayers deserve what the paid for GIVE IT TO THEM. Verizon has ripped us off for too long. WE MUST STORM VERIZON HEAD QUARTERS!