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FairPoint ad wars hit Maine hard
by Outspoken on Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:53 am
FairPoint ad wars hit Maine hard
By EDWARD D. MURPHY
Blethen Maine Newspapers
It has all the trappings of a political campaign.
Print ads, radio ads, television ads, even YouTube ads. Testimonials. Competing analyses of proposals. Encouragement to call the governor or other elected officials.
Despite the mass media appeal residents, the politicking in this case is aimed at nine unelected officials: public utilities commissioners in Maine and New Hampshire, and members of the Public Service Board in Vermont.
FairPoint Communications wants to buy the land-line telephone business now owned by Verizon in the three states. Unions and some consumer advocates oppose the deal.
And both sides are jockeying to try to make sure that everyone knows where they stand.
"We recognize that it's important to influence the environment that the decision gets made in," said Rand Wilson, a spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America, the two unions that are running ads aimed at derailing the $2.7 billion deal. "While the PUC commissioners are unelected and they make the decisions based on the merits of the case ... they're making that decision in an environment and everyone is trying to affect that environment."
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4533432.html
By EDWARD D. MURPHY
Blethen Maine Newspapers
It has all the trappings of a political campaign.
Print ads, radio ads, television ads, even YouTube ads. Testimonials. Competing analyses of proposals. Encouragement to call the governor or other elected officials.
Despite the mass media appeal residents, the politicking in this case is aimed at nine unelected officials: public utilities commissioners in Maine and New Hampshire, and members of the Public Service Board in Vermont.
FairPoint Communications wants to buy the land-line telephone business now owned by Verizon in the three states. Unions and some consumer advocates oppose the deal.
And both sides are jockeying to try to make sure that everyone knows where they stand.
"We recognize that it's important to influence the environment that the decision gets made in," said Rand Wilson, a spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America, the two unions that are running ads aimed at derailing the $2.7 billion deal. "While the PUC commissioners are unelected and they make the decisions based on the merits of the case ... they're making that decision in an environment and everyone is trying to affect that environment."
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4533432.html
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