By Tim Redmond
Here’s a classic Gavin Newsom idea: Since he can’t get the supervisors to sign off on a baldly flawed wi-fi plan (which the prime contractor may be ready to abandon anyway), there’s talk that the mayor will simply put his wi-fi plan on the ballot.
That way Earthlink and Google (if they still want to do this thing) can put up a bunch of money, and newsom can use it to claim he’s trying to get something done (and he can bash the supes a bit in the process) and the rest of us will have to spend a bunch of time and money fighting to stop a dumb idea from getting voter approval.
Wi-fi and Community Choice Aggregation; it could be the all-privatization ballot.