JIM HOLWAY URGES THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION TO ORDER REGULATED UTILITIES TO REPORT ALL
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT SEEK TO INFLUENCE CORPORATION COMMISSION ELECTIONS
Jim Holway, candidate for Arizona’s Corporation Commission, delivered a letter to the ve
Commissioners today asking them to immediately order regulated utilities to report all
contributions seeking to in uence Corporation Commission elections.
“We cannot allow secret funding by utilities to threaten the independence and integrity of our
elected public utility commission,” Holway said.
Holway is also asking Arizona residents to join him by signing a companion petition at
www.NoSecretFunds.com. “Commissioners have the authority and obligation to protect the
integrity of the Commission and to serve the people of Arizona by exposing any dark money
funding from regulated utilities.”
To read Jim’s letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission, click here.
To view Jim’s video on the need to end secret funding, click here.
Until recently, there has been a long and sensible tradition that APS and our other regulated
monopolies stay out of Commission races. Without a disclosure rule, the Commission will be
assisting a utility to keep its Commission candidate funding anonymous.
“Rate payers and voters rely on an independent Commission. They want to know how much
involvement a utility has in trying to in uence the election of regulators. The disclosure rule, which the Commission can and should adopt, will help them nd out,” Holway added.
Jim Holway has 35 years of experience working on water, growth, energy and land use. His
experience includes a Ph.D. in land use and water planning, a decade as the Assistant Director of the Department of Water Resources and election to the Board of Directors of the Central Arizona Project in 2010.
Learn more about his campaign for the Corporation Commission at
www.holway2014.com.