Espresso Pundit
Since I practice in front of the Corporation Commission, I try not to blog about the ACC or ACC races. So I have remained on the sidelines while Arizona Public Service (APS) has escalated its bizarre and wholly inappropriate effort to affect the outcome of the ACC elections by funneling anonymous “Dark” Money into the race.
If you are looking for a little background, the Republic’s Ryan Randazzo as well as the Arizona Capitol Times have had excellent coverage.
But there is a point at which APS has gone too far and even those of us who have to work with the company have to speak out. Today they reached that point.
It was bad enough that APS used some of its (essentially unlimited) corporate funds in order to push two candidates for the Corporation Commission. But here the company is funding a smear campaign against a specific candidate using anonymous* corporate money and relying on discredited charges and allegations in order to affect the election of the body that regulates them.
