for all their "sponsors", size proportional to the amount of the "contribution".

This man is lying through his teeth.

There was a big political battle over which provider would get the contract. A lot of noise was made by the citizenry about a monopoly being handed to whoever was "selected". The major complaint was that users would have no recourse for poor service. The "leaders" solution was to divide up the city into 3 (or 4, it was a long time ago) regional monopolies. These people run screaming from true "free markets."

The title leads one to believe that it has and the clip says "introduced a bipartisan bill(?)".