Candidates sign on to Speed Matters

Democratic presidential candidates Joseph Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, and Bill Richardson told Iowans of the critical importance of CWA's Speed Matters initiative during campaign events this week.

At Marshalltown Community College, Biden said CWA's campaign to improve the quality, affordability, and availability of high-speed broadband service played a vital role in education as students rely more and more upon access to the Internet as part of their studies. At a hospital in West Burlington, Clinton spoke of the critical role high-speed Internet had in health care. In Ames, Dodd cited the important of broadband to job creation and economic development in rural communities. Richardson, appearing in Marshalltown, spoke of how he, as New Mexico's governor, launched a "Wire New Mexico" project to create a statewide high-speed, high capacity data, voice and communications system.

Candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama endorsed CWA's campaign earlier in campaign stops in Iowa.

Making sure the candidates get the message (Speed Matters)