InternetforEveryone.org 06/24/08
Regarding that press conference I was participating in today, it was to help announce InternetforEveryone.org, a bipartisan coalition working to help ensure 100% access and availability to a high-speed Internet connection. Sadly, more than 50% of Americans don’t have access to a high-speed connection which are predominately rural/Appalachian (Republican) Americans. That’s more than 10M households.
This is one way I believe we can help level the playing field online.
My colleague Nancy Scola of TechPresident.com has a good summary of my remarks:
Republican political consultant and founder of both Slatecard and TechRepublican, David All: “It’s really common sense to me why Republicans would want to support the Internet.” Many of the Americans who don’t have broadband “are in rural America. We [Republicans] lose elections by one, two, ten percent” and I want to start winning. “I’m 29 and an entrepreneur. Seventy percent of high school students want to be entrepreneurs, and they’re not thinking of starting a barbershop. They’re thinking of starting a Facebook.”
Pics and more later.
