[fredBuddemeyer]

willfully stupid is a perfect description - of your government. had you opened the process to any kind of competitive process you would find your coffers filled. i did this work ages ago and paid several hundred dollars just for the right to pass each home.

the cable companies laugh at local governments, all the way to the bank.

[jbooth]

We thought we did pretty well, double dipping by hitting up both comcast and verizon.

Maybe we could have played hardball and refused to renew the contracts, but who do you think wins there? Take away people's TV? You crazy? Then we'd have gotten the same people lambasting us here (because they're shills) killing us for driving too hard a bargain (because they're shills).