As it's a conservative measure [0] and as we're talking about the Ohio Senate here, it's entirely possible it was inserted into legislation by someone who might

As it's a conservative measure [0] and as we're talking about the Ohio Senate here, it's entirely possible it was inserted into legislation by someone who might or might not know how to read and written entirely by ALEC. [1] [0] nominally conservative. Ohio conservatives give a lot of lip service to "home rule" authority for municipalities. Broadband is one of several areas including LGBT measures and civil rights, oil and gas drilling, education policy, voting, and basically anything you could name where they violate their stated principles of home rule without any apparent irony when the mood strikes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...