Grant co commissioners are preparing to kill the fibersystem by defunding it and/or refusing to adapt or approve a long term business plan. The three fiberhaters are bork allred and hansen. The telecom group [fiber] will run out of money and lay off its employees next thursday 3/17/05. The fiber will be switched off some time around then with the excuse that - well, we just ran out of money and had to kill it. My opinion is this should be decided by the people of grant co not by a biased jerk who just ran for commissioner so he could extract revenge on the people who fired him from the pud [bork] and some one who has always right from the get go represented a small group of farmers who's number one goal was to get someone elected who would stop the fiber and anything else that provided for progress in this county. [hansen] I don't really know what is up with allred, I thought he was a fiber supporter but I think bork has influence over him. As you can see I'm just a little biased against thesejerks. Fine, everything I am saying can be confirmed by calling Mr. Culbertson or the telecomm manager, they will try to dodge these questions but they know exactly what the three commission stooges are up to. This should be published in the paper so the public can have some kind of say in weather the investment in the fiber system was all for nothing. I think everyone should attend the commission meeting Monday so you can see for yourself what they are about to try and pull off [kill off the fiber program] Stand up and ask bork right to his face. He will explode and cuss at you for bringing this up I promise you. As for me and where this info comes from, it comes from within the pud. I have a lot to lose if it is found out that I am the source of this so I can't tell you who I am. I really hope you can bring this to the public for discussion before it's too late to keep the fiber system going. Thanks The pud insider cc: Wenatchee World, Columbia Basin Harold and serviceproviders