Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (8/17/15): “Our View: Can commissioners be bought? Here’s a test”
The moment of truth — consideration of a fee increase for rooftop-solar customers of Arizona Public Service — is upon Arizona’s all-Republican Corporation Commission.
The moment is an uncomfortable one. Two of the sitting commissioners are widely believed to have enjoyed as much as $3.2 million in “dark money” campaign support last year from APS, and more than a few critics suspect the utility tail is wagging the regulatory dog….
They are not the only commissioners compromised by events from last year’s campaigns.
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group has been struggling for months to obtain text messages from the cellphone of another commissioner, Bob Stump, who the group suspects may have acted as an intermediary between the independent campaign groups and the GOP candidates.
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