http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/113002
She holds a degree in Chemistry and has been elected Majority Caucus Leader for the Republicans in the NC House. One has to wonder if she gets TW Broadband with full home services for free. One also has to ask if she stated forthrightly in her campaigning that she'd put the wishes of corporations over those of the voters who elected her?
The way things are these days I suspect that a Dem in the same office would have behaved in the same way.
Time Warner Cable's fourth attempt in four years to get North Carolina lawmakers to ban or otherwise bureaucratically strangle communities eager to wire themselves for fiber has passed a vote in the North Carolina Public Utilities Committee. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Marilyn Avila, handed her time at the podium during last week's meeting to Time Warner Cable lobbyist Marc Trathen, who then informed attendees that all community fiber efforts (like the ongoing builds in both Salisbury and Wilson, North Carolina, which deliver services superior to Time Warner Cable) automatically result in failure, dying puppies, crying children, and other assorted global chaos. Avila mirrored those sentiments ahead of yesterday's vote ....
It's unclear if anyone has asked Avila a few pointed questions, like:
"if such projects are automatic abysmal failures, why isn't Time Warner Cable simply content to allow them to fail instead of trying to pass the same law four consecutive years?"
Or,
"if Time Warner Cable's service price and pace of upgrades are satisfying the market, why are these communities building these networks?"
Or perhaps
"why aren't individual communities allowed to make up their own minds about what's best for the community, instead of being told what's best by Time Warner Cable?"
"if such projects are automatic abysmal failures, why isn't Time Warner Cable simply content to allow them to fail instead of trying to pass the same law four consecutive years?"
Or,
"if Time Warner Cable's service price and pace of upgrades are satisfying the market, why are these communities building these networks?"
Or perhaps
"why aren't individual communities allowed to make up their own minds about what's best for the community, instead of being told what's best by Time Warner Cable?"
The way things are these days I suspect that a Dem in the same office would have behaved in the same way.
It was interesting to see 
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