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"I bet you that cost me my job," West Virginia Senate president, Republican Mitch Carmichael, jokingly told colleagues in April when he voted for a new measure that would expand broadband competition in his state.
Just over a month later it turned out to be true, when he was fired from his job as a sales manager at Frontier Internet, despite having recently been given a significant raise.
Frontier Internet is the state's largest high-speed internet provider and it was implacably opposed to the measure that Carmichael voted in favor of: one that allows up to 20 families or businesses to form a co-op to provide broadband in areas that are currently poorly served. It also lets cities and counties band together to build municipal networks.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Saturday June 10 2017, @03:39PM
I'm impressed with and totally respect Carmichael. He put his economic life on the line to do something good. If he has a gofundme page, I'll donate, even though I'm certainly way to the left of him on probably everything else.
We need more politicians like that rather than those who talk sweet and stab people in the back, for example, the 13 Senate Democrats who keep killing bills to allow Americans to buy drugs from Canada after taking tons of pharma money. http://billmoyers.com/story/reason-booker-big-pharma-dems-no-excuse/ [billmoyers.com]