Richard Unger, a Sarasota resident and intervenor in the Florida Power & Light rate case, is asking Public Service Commissioner Katrina McMurrian to remove herself from voting on the rate case because of allegations that she's conflicted.
Unger's representative Stephen Stewart has disclosed on his blog that McMurrian's served on an industry panel in New York and attended a dinner with an FPL executive and other panelists. McMurrian told the Herald/Times that she did not discuss any pending rate case, the dinner preceded the FPL case and she has done nothing wrong.
Unger disagrees and believes there is the appearance of impropriety. "I am most concerned with the conduct and actions of Commissioner McMurrian both in her socializing with FPL Executives over a Steak Dinner in NYC that included the Treasurer of FPL and the off the record, out of the public's view conversations and discussions with these FPL Corporate Officers, when she should be totally impartial and avoid any appearance of impropriety,'' he said in a statement.Download Unger Motiion For Recusal
McMurrian on Friday has made her own recommendations about changing the rules that regulate the PSC that would require that any conversation between staff and the PSC be put in writing. Download McMurrian Release 091109
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