The Arizona Corporation Commission: A Sordid Example of the Consequences of Regulatory Capture. Tom Chabin and Bill Mundell, Democrats running for the Arizona Corporation Commission join Democratic Perspective hosts Mike Cosentino and Gary LaMaster for a discussion of what happens when a public utility — in this case APS, the Arizona Public Services Electric Company — employs large-scale anonymous contributions to influence the election of commissioners to the state agency charged with regulating it, Once upon a time this was rightly called corruption, Now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, it’s just business as usual.
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