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To: E. Davies who wrote (10617)	6/6/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: lml	Respond to of 29970

Agree. I found the Commissioner's statement completely inconsistent with the path the City of Portland has taken. What better way to do a disservice to one's constituents than to all-but preclude the delivery of broadband over HFC. While championing open access the conduct of the City Commission, IMHO, will result in NO access Having earlier in my career dealt with legislative bodies of local governments, though smaller than the City of Portland, one pattern I frequently came across was an individual board member's insistence to go on record as opposed to certain measure before the board notwithstanding the inevitability of its passage. This is one way of reconciling what is going on in Portland. On one hand, the Commission wants to champion the ideal of open access to satiate anti-monopolistic sentiments of their left-wing constituents, while at the same time hoping T would prevail in the Courts to ensure delivery of HFC broadband to the satisfaction of their not-as-far to the left constituents who relish the advent of broadband access. The foregoing politics permit the Commissioners to "have their cake & eat it too" so to speak. If successful, they will have appeased both sides of the aisle & refrained from alienating any one group that could jeopardize their chances at the next election. Just one man's analysis. Now back to our regularly scheduled posting.