[RTC List] When telecom industry runs public policy?

[Sean McLaughlin]

Kentucky scenario raises questions about telecom industry initiatives.


*CONNECT KENTUCKY DISCONNECTED AT HOME *

[SOURCE: Public Knowledge, AUTHOR: Art Brodsky]
[Commentary] While Connected Nation is expanding around the country, it 
hit a big snag at home. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) Monday let the 
world know what his administration thinks of the controversial Connect 
Kentucky program. He vetoed $2.4 million in funds for the organization, 
which was founded under his predecessor, Ernie Fletcher (R). Connect had 
tried to obtain a 26 percent increase in funding over the last budget 
cycle, and Gov Beshear wasn't going to let them have it at a time when 
there were severe budget cuts all over the state. He resisted the 
full-court press put on the legislature and his Administration by AT&T 
and its allies, but at the end of the day, CK's vaunted program was 
found to be lacking. Gov Beshear said that the program was being 
rejected for state financing because it had asked for funds "without 
specifically identifying any services to be rendered to the state or 
providing for any oversight, control or performance measures relative to 
the services being rendered."
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1521

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