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Employees fund PAC’s direct contributions, but ratepayers are paying twice as much to ‘administer’ fund Salt River Project (SRP) ratepayers are paying at least $500,000 annually to support the administration of SRP’s political action committee, which works to support and oppose political candidates in Arizona and nationally. The political action committee (PAC) is called SRP’s...

A recent Washington Post investigation brought new attention to the Regulators Roundtable, a little-known organization that connects Republican state utility commissioners with companies and trade associations that have interests before the regulators, and raises money from those companies and groups.  The Energy and Policy Institute provided records to the Post revealing how the organization solicited...

Arizona Corporation Commission Commissioner Kevin Thompson is using his personal email account to communicate with the Regulators Roundtable on Commission issues. The Regulators Roundtable is a utility-affiliated organization that offers corporate “investors” private access to state regulators and works to support the election of Republican regulators. EPI filed a public records request with the Corporation...

Updated August 20 to include comments from Tolbert regarding the nature of the relationship between him and Christopher Drummond, context about Tolbert’s pledge not to accept money from regulated utilities, and further information regarding his campaign contributions policy.  More than two-thirds of contributions of $500 or more that went to Fitz Johnson, the Republican candidate...