SF Wifi Debate Becomes Ballot Proposal

Since San Francisco’s political establishment can’t stop bickering long enough to let Google and Earthlink set up a free wifi network, the mayor has decided to send the decision to the voters. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has submitted a ballot proposal for the November 6, 2007, which is nonbinding, meaning that even if it passes overwhelmingly, will still require the politicians and special interest groups to come to an agreement regardless of the wishes of the voters.
The full text of the ballot proposal is on the sfgov.org website, but is impossible to find in any way but the Google cache, and even then only available in a non-indexable PDF. Wonderful way of opening up to the voters, idiots. The proposal also contains no mention of the companies involved, presumable a problem or a positive, depending on the voter.
Here’s the text as extracted by Microsoft Office OneNote […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg