"I am going to go home tonight and cuddle up to an icepack because I can’t afford to turn the air conditioning on."
“I am here as a dad,” said resident Tim Prather, who stepped up to the microphone in Panama City Beach during a hearing in Florida Power & Light’s case to hike electricity rates.
“I have been an FPL customer for over 30 years,” said Rachel Keesling at a similar hearing, held virtually.
“I have lived in South Florida all 27 years of my life, and I am a business owner,” said Daniel Bogardus at another near Miami.
Each had one more thing in common: They worked for businesses or organizations that have received financial backing from the state’s largest energy provider and failed to disclose that fact when they testified.
They weren’t alone.
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