By Luige del Puerto | Arizona Capitol Times
Incessant allegations that Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest utility and one of its largest employers, spent heavily to influence the elections of its regulators last year are weighing heavily on the minds of some of those same regulators.
While they are not eager to compel APS to open its books so the public could see whether the company funded the flood of “dark money” campaign spending that helped to elect two of their colleagues, Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan Bitter Smith and Commissioner Bob Burns expressed wariness at the prospect of the utility engaging in electioneering activities next year.
