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posted by n1 on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the quid-pro-quo dept.

"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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @05:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @05:38PM (#523527)

    also somewhat silly and petty.. considering he voted in -favor- of broadband competition..? o.O