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Craig Chesek, who became the PSC's chief of staff in 2003, helped create an agency better suited to represent utilities than consumers, Chrys Wilson told a special legislative committee investigating the hiring and firing practices of Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

considering how the Maryland PSC got a better deal for Maryland customers of DelMarVa Power and Light than the Delaware legisture - I would say he is more of an advocate for the customers than the utitlity.

DP&L has royally screwed the customers in Delaware, with the full blessing of the Legislature (they wrote a law that prohibbitted the PSC from getting involved).....I'm hoping the Public Utility Commission in Virginia is even half has diligent as in Maryland.....I'm one of the 22,000 customers of DP&L that are about to get burned by DP&L and Richmond.

FYI - According to the Maryland General Assembly's website, the Ehrlich Witch Hunt Committee (a.k.a. the Maryland Special Committee on State Employee Rights and Protections) next meets at 10AM on May 11 and May 22. If NCPAC testifies, expect articles on those evenings.

Don't you believe that. There are E-mail conversations between the Maryland PSC and BGE, and their buddies at Constellation Energy. The messages sound like a consperacy to me. A 72% increase in the cost of electricity is a nonstarter for most of Marylanders. The former members of the PSC were fired to make way for hand picked replacements by our Republican Governor. Go figure.