Clean-energy group questions regulators’ letters that oppose APS campaign disclosures

Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (10/26/15): “Clean-energy group questions regulators’ letters that oppose APS campaign disclosures“:

A clean-energy group wants to know if two Arizona utility regulators got help from Arizona Public Service Co. in writing letters that oppose forcing the company to disclose what it spent on last year’s election campaigns…

The executive director of the Checks and Balances Project, an advocacy group that has been in a high-profile battle with the commission over public records for most of the year, said the letters were suspicious…

“The letters themselves were so vociferous and so … strongly worded that they raised questions as to who actually authored them,” Scott Peterson, the executive director, said.

“The bewildering responses they have provided to basic questions just strengthens people’s impression that Forese and Little got help crafting their arguments as to why the ACC should not subpoena to get to the bottom of APS’ electoral spending,”  Peterson said. “The commission has started a campfire and is using its credibility as fuel.”