Are you following the debate over state franchising?  FreePress is.  And there's a lot going on in many states.  According to today's U.S. Communications Law Bulletin, there are video franchise bills pending or passing all over the place that would take authority away from municipalities and give it to the states -- Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Tennessee... Similar measures failed in Utah and Idaho.  Lots of other states involved.

These are shaping up to be titanic battles between the telcos (who want quick and easy access to video subscribers) and cablecos (who got there first).  Here's a good overview of arguments against this kind of measure in Illinois.

Back in the spring of 2003, there was a big push at the state level to get theft-of-service laws passed that made it illegal for customers to attach otherwise-legal devices to cable and telephone networks.  The logic behind this effort was to avoid federal discomfort with broadcast flag rules by getting the same relief from the state.

Same thing here.  If net neutrality is going to tangle up the phone companies' attempts to get relief from state franchising laws at the federal level, they'll get what they need from the states.  The technique seems to work quite well.