The local incumbents, Comcast, AT&T and Spectrum, even got support from the Washington, D.C.-based so-called Taxpayers Protection Alliance, which sent a representative from the nation’s capitol to warn city council members they would be using taxpayer resources “to build out redundant infrastructure.”
Sourcewatch classifies the alliance as “an advocacy front group” that is part of the Koch brothers’ political network. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, a sister paper of The Herald-Times, the alliance in 2017 “led an online campaign, urging Louisville taxpayers to reject the city’s plans to spend public money on the fiber network.”