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Group Fights Washington State Bill to Legalize Utility's Appliance-Repair Unit.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003
By Don Jenkins, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 29--OLYMPIA, Wash.--A small business group will oppose bills that would legalize Clark Public Utilities' appliance-repair business and settle an ongoing court battle.
"It's pretty cut and dried," said Mark Johnson, assistant state director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, which opposes the bills. "If I were a small-business owner trying to compete with a PUD, I would have a hard time trying to find something to like about it."
Legislators from the 49th District, Rep. Bill Fromhold and Sen. Don Carlson, have introduced identical one-sentence bills to allow a public utility district in a county bordering Oregon and with a...
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