Thread by @PattyforGaPSC

Did you know? PSC Chair @TPridemore has decided that the public is too much for her to deal with. Can you image the hubris of being paid $120k/year from state taxes and deciding the people who pay your salary should not be allowed to listen to commission hearings? I cannot.

@TPridemore should be grateful that anyone wants to stay and listen to complex energy regulatory policy matters and should encourage members of the public to be as involved as they can and want to be. This is a common problem with elected officials - they let the authority of

their position go to their head. I wonder what the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners would think about this new rule that disempowers Georgians, given she is joining their board? Let's see. @NARUC what do you think? This ok?

Weak personal ethics like this is studied extensively because risk of harm to the public is high. Here is an article that perfectly describes @TPridemore at this stage of her being a public "servant". She should never have been appointed to this role.
quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217…

Just to be clear, this rule has never been in place in Georgia. I and many other members of the public, if that's what you call energy professionals who are not intervenors but attend hearings occasionally, have always been welcome at the commission. This new rule was distributed

as Public Comment Guidelines bullet #6 on 8/2/22 effective immediately.

"At the conclusion of the public comment time, anyone not a party to the case being heard will be asked to leave the hearing room."

What?? Wow.

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