"Overcoming the telecom industry's efforts to seize real estateholdings from private property owners has been a chore," Locketells GlobeSt.com. "The education of the state's Public ServiceCommission and those state legislators, who were misled, proved tobe an uphill battle."
BOMA's strategy in winning the legislative battle was "sendingletters and faxes, making countless phone calls and walking thehalls in Tallahassee (the state capital) to get our concernsheard," the broker says.
What frustrated Locke and his team was realizing the PublicService Commission sided with BOMA but BOMA still had to make itscase. "In spite of the PSC's own staff's findings, as well as ourprivate property rights as defined by the Constitution, we had towork hard to get our message across," Locke says.
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