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12.21.2020 / 5:12 PM Catherine Turcer Executive Director Common Cause Ohio (614) 579-5509 cturcer@commoncause.org
Today, a collection of open government and consumer advocates and former Statehouse reporters who championed open and accountable government called on Governor Mike DeWine to require additional financial disclosure from applicants to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).
Their letter calls for the governor to require all finalists to disclose all work they have done with utilities, their consultants, and lobbyists over the past 10 years including the nature of the work performed and the amount of compensation received.
“Ohio’s financial disclosure requirements are simply inadequate,”
said Catherine Turcer, executive director of Common Cause Ohio. “We are urging Governor DeWine to require more robust disclosure for the applicants before he considers appointing one of them to
Outgoing Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith French was picked as one of four finalists for a seat on a powerful panel that regulates the state s utilities.
The 12-member nominating council for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio submitted the name of French and three others Angela Amos, Anne Vogel and Greg Poulos to Gov. Mike DeWine to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of PUCO Chairman Sam Randazzo for a term that ends April 10, 2024.
Randazzo resigned after the FBI searched his Columbus house and Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed a $4 million payment was made to an entity meeting the description of one owned by Randazzo as part of its internal investigation into a bribery scandal around House Bill 6 that bails out the state s two nuclear power plants. The plants are owned by a former FirstEnergy subsidiary.