Word: gore
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...Gore and his allies, backed by considerable polling, say taxpayers are more than willing to pay a small amount each month to guarantee their children a place in the digital economy. "If they want this fight, bring it on," says a Gore aide with a taunting schoolyard wave. "Politicians who are against this are going to seem like they are against the library or the telephone...
...their bravado in public, however, Administration officials were scrambling behind the scenes last week to head off anything that might be called a Gore Tax, and they hinted that a deal is in the offing. On Friday the Commerce Department called on the FCC to do what it could to assure that any charge the residential consumer sees would not be more than $1 a month per telephone line. "I am totally happy to have a debate over whether or not it's worth $1 a month to wire the schools," said Ron Klain, the Vice President's chief...
...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...
...Republicans see this as nothing less than a stealth campaign to enhance Gore's presidential prospects. "This was not to be a political cash-grant program so that Al Gore can run for President," Tauzin complains. Gore's allies insist it is the Republicans who are playing politics. "This is a Clinton and Gore signature item," says former FCC Chairman Hundt. "The divisive, partisan, do-nothing Congress would rather not see something succeed than see it succeed on terms that would be regarded as positive for the Democrats...
...which leaves Gore with an important lesson as he approaches his 2000 campaign: cyberpolitics isn't the safe territory he might have thought it was. That's one more thing he can start to lose sleep over...