WAMU reports Exelon hired FreshPAC chairman to lobby Mayor’s office days before ‘settlement’ was reached
See the article here: http://wamu.org/news/15/12/16/exelon_paid_freshpac_chair_to_lobby_DC_government_about_merger
Statement in response from Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network:
“I have never seen such a blatant appearance of political corruption in my entire career as a consumer and environmental advocate. The ‘P’ in FreshPAC stands for political. Exelon brazenly hired the chairman of the Mayor’s own political action committee to pressure the Mayor to knuckle under to a bad deal for consumers and the environment. This is absolutely outrageous. This is all about corrupt politics and consumer rip-off.
“This comes after the ‘soccergate’ scandal in September, when Pepco gave $25 million to the Mayor for vague naming rights related to her soccer stadium deal. This comes after Pepco and Exelon still refuse to confirm or deny whether the Mayor’s super PAC asked them to make direct political donations. It comes after the Mayor’s office pressured the federal General Services Administration to drop its opposition to the settlement. Now this.
“How shocking does this bad-government process have to become before the Mayor gains some pride and withdraws from this fraudulent ‘settlement’?”
More on the “Soccergate” scandal: http://www.powerdc.org/soccergate.html
More on the Mayor’s bad settlement deal: http://www.powerdc.org/settlement-facts.html
Contact:
Mike Tidwell, CCAN director, 240-460-5838
Kelly Trout, 240-396-2022, kelly@chesapeakeclimate.org
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