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Sam Randazzo
Sam Randazzo Resigned
Now that Sam Randazzo is no longer overseeing energy issues at the PUCO, Governor Mike DeWine has an opportunity to do better!
The PUCO Nominating Council met on Dec. 21 to recommend a slate of possible commissioners with which the Governor can replace Randazzo. The names they put forward include Anne Vogel, who worked as a lobbyist for American Electric Power for over a decade, and former Supreme Court Judge Judith French, who has received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from FirstEnergy. The other two names on their list were Angela Amos and Greg Poulos, a senior policy advisor with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the executive director with Consumer Advocates for the PJM States, Inc., respectively. The newest commissioner must be an individual who is fair and balanced in their approach with no ties to Ohio’s utilities like those we have seen in the past. It’s time for a commissioner who takes their job as a regu
Editorial: Gov. DeWine, Ohioans need an advocate on PUCO
The Columbus Dispatch
Gov. Mike DeWine has a lot of good reasons to appoint someone to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio who is free of any financial ties to the utility corporations the PUCO is charged with regulating. The most important reason is because that’s what Ohioans deserve: commission members who can be expected to look out for their interests rather than those of the utilities.
We sympathize with those consumer advocates who are unhappy that DeWine on Jan. 20 rejected all four candidates proposed for a PUCO opening by the agency s Nominating Council. The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, the left-leaning policy group ProgressOhio, and the Ohio Consumer Power Alliance all said that two of the candidates on the rejected list would have been good choices.