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November 1, 2013 03:38 am GMT
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Is Comcast Buying The Seattle Mayoral Election To Dodge Homegrown Competition? Not Really
The mayor of Seattle has alleged that Comcast donated significant sums to his rival ahead of the November 5 election. The money could have been donated, perhaps, in hopes of scuttling the planned public-private broadband initiative in the city that could introduce new inexpensive, and fast competitive service.In response toa question during a Reddit AMAasking what would happen to the effort-- which will likely be executed with a private firm by the name of Gigabit Squared -- Seattle MayorMike McGinnsaid,"I don't know, but I do know Comcast gave [rival candidate] Murray a big pile of money."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cwBJ01bEIAI/
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