Connect Kentucky Provides Uncertain Model for Federal Legislation

CONNECT KENTUCKY PROVIDES UNCERTAIN MODEL FOR FEDERAL LEGISLATION
[SOURCE: Public Knowledge, AUTHOR: Art Brodsky]
[Commentary] The only telecommunications legislation that has a chance of passing the Congress controlled by Democrats this year is modeled on a group whose apparent accomplishments are open to question and whose origins are in Republican politics in Kentucky. That group is Connected Nation, which began life as Connect Kentucky. Some say Connect Kentucky is nothing more than a sales force and front group for AT&T paid for by the telecommunications industry and by state and federal governments that has achieved far more in publicity than it has in actual accomplishment. Connect helps to promote AT&T services, while lobbying at the state capitol for the deregulation legislation the telephone company wants. [Much more at the URL below -- worth the read.]
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1334