Governor Holcomb announced David Valetta will fill a vacancy in the Indiana Utility

Regulatory Commission and here to discuss that is Jim Merritt

It's Kennell and Casey on 93 WIBC at 934. Thanks for coming in this morning. Casey had dragged me in on a very boring subject

No, then here's why we did really yeah

Okay, here's why we did this because yesterday Casey read a letter from her utility company

That said her utility bill and we did the math on the air is gonna go up an average of $20 a month and

The utility companies in this state it across this country and rage me because they are given essentially

Monopolys by the government because I cannot go I'm like a Walmart target Meyer

I don't like a price somewhere. I can't go compete

Price shop and I have to have electricity and this enrages me that Casey is being subjected

To this and I said we have to someone who can come in and explain this to us

And I knew you know about this because when you were in the Senate you oversaw the

Utility so tell me high level 30,000 foot. What is the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission?

And how is this guy Valetta because he was appointed by Holcomb

So I know it's gonna be worse. How is he gonna make my life worse? Tell me well

This is an integral part of our society

It's just very very complicated and and and people will start to snore after I get finished with this

No, I'll cut you off don't worry. Okay, my check depends on people not snoring Joe. Okay, all right nobody snores during this show

Especially people down the street

First of all the 50,000

Foot view is the legislature and a little bit of the governor Mitch Daniels

Participated a lot because he knew this was very important to the state of Indiana, but

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