Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
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Re-election grease the palm fund (RGTPF)
Here is how the RGTPF moneys where used on one project at a school here in Cheyenne. This school used the money to wire the whole building to cable TV to the tune of several 100 thousand dollars. This is great except for the fact, the local cable company had already wired the building for this same thing a couple of years before as part of the CableCo's educational TV in the schools program. A great program where the cable industry wired school for free. Said cable company got the contract to re-wire the school. So in a since they where paid back for what they did a few years earlier. Nothing wrong with this of course from the point of view of the CableCo they would have been foolish to not bid for the contract. But the money was wasted it could have been used else where in another school out in in Laramie county that had not been wired up yet.
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TampaVoIP
join:2002-05-10
Tampa, FL
| When did the cable co's start doing this? Back in the early 90's, a few friends & myself spent a month pulling RG-6 throughout our school. Worked our rather well too -- the teachers often would put on MTV late in the day when they didn't feel like teaching. Gotta love MTV Spring Break. |
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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said by Transmaster  :Here is how the RGTPF moneys where used on one project at a school here in Cheyenne. This school used the money to wire the whole building to cable TV to the tune of several 100 thousand dollars. That amount of money spent on wiring for just TV seems a little excessive. 
This is great except for the fact, the local cable company had already wired the building for this same thing a couple of years before as part of the CableCo's educational TV in the schools program. Beyond that, a lot of middle and high schools (more in the South, fewer in the Northeast and West) got wired for cable for free way back when, when Channel One came out.
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
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| said by roamer1 :That amount of money spent on wiring for just TV seems a little excessive. The grant money included running network cables as well as new computers. and to change out the excisting coax for the TV systems.
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