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Joshua Polacheck: “Arizona elections have been free and fair over the last…”

Featuring: Joshua Polacheck, Democratic | Former Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published September 3, 2024 | Video Starts at 49:33

I would have loved, because I see the elections in the background, that we at least had one question about whether everyone on the stage believes that Arizona elections have been free and fair over the last couple of cycles. would have been a great question. I'm not sure everyone on the stage agrees with it. I'd like to end with this story. (49:33–49:37)

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Joshua Polacheck

“We are facing a vital election this fall.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:21-04:25
“We are running to take back the corporation commission for the people of Arizona.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:29-04:34
“I spent nearly 20 years in federal service serving the American people overseas.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:34-04:40
“I was a commissioned foreign service officer.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:39-04:42
“We are facing monumental decisions over the next four to eight years with our corporation commission.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:46-04:53
“The majority on the corporation commission is going to be deciding whether Arizona will be a place where we can raise our families, where we…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 04:54-05:04
“Under the current Republican majority on the commission, they have not seen a rate increase that they didn't embrace wholeheartedly.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 05:03-05:11
“We need to make sure that we return the corporation commission to its constitutional duty of ensuring that you, the voters, get affordable…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 05:11-05:22
“That is not happening under the current majority.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 05:21-05:25
“Every single time that they've had an opportunity to protect the citizens of Arizona, they have instead sided with the out of state…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 05:27-05:37
“They are taking money out of your pocket and sending it out of our state.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 05:36-05:42
“We should not be seeing record profits with our utilities while we're paying record prices every month with our electricity and gas bills.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 15:20-15:29
“If you elect the three of us, we're going to make sure that we hold the utilities accountable.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 15:29-15:34
“When they try to put record profits instead of what an affordable and fair rate increases, we're going to fight back against that.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 15:33-15:44
“There's been republican control for decades on this commission.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 15:47-15:51
“Look at that bill you get every month. Are you happy with that? That's thanks to the Republicans who've been in control for decades.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 15:51-15:58
“None of our opponents were able to answer whether they thought these rate increases were fair.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 21:48-21:54
“Clearly the consumers can look at their bills and decide for themselves if they think they're fair.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 21:53-22:00
“There was a bipartisan effort by the previous chairman to reform the regulations.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:05-22:12
“There are outdated regulations with the commission that get in the way of the free market.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:12-22:17
“We are talking about regulations from the 1960s and seventies that provide a non market subsidy to outdated technology.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:16-22:25
“Right now it is cheaper to be building a clean energy future in our state.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:24-22:29
“We are providing perverse incentives to the utilities to be building infrastructure that we don't need.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:29-22:37
“The Republicans on this stage are getting in the way of the free market in regards to energy.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 22:47-22:52
“We know under the current corporation Commission regulations that the utilities know that they can make more money building fossil fuel…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:00-30:10
“They expect us to be paying for [fossil fuel infrastructure] not just ten years from now, not just 20 years from now, 50 and 60 years from…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:09-30:16
“We know that the commission is putting their thumb on the scale.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:16-30:19
“In Nevada, when they opened up their generation market and you saw the free market bloom, they went from about 10% of energy independence to…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:19-30:32
“You are seeing in Nevada something that has seen only in one other place in the entire country and that is rates going down, profitability…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:32-30:46
“That's seen only in one other place in the entire country and that is the deregulated market in southern Florida.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:45-30:52
“Why is Arizona have, why are we stuck with these outdated government regulations that provides subsidies to infrastructure we don't need?”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 30:51-31:00
“We're seeing up in Mojave, a community where there's an expansion of a gas turbine power plant against the will of the community.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 36:25-36:33
“Commissioner Peterson voted on, a four one republican party line vote to approve [the gas turbine power plant expansion].”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 36:32-36:40
“The site committee, which is supposed to approve these sorts of things, disapproved it.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 36:45-36:50
“The commission on a party line vote decided, yep, this is what we're going to do.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 36:51-36:55
“We spend $3 billion a year, or $3 billion over the last 20 years in the build out of our clean energy.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 37:07-37:16
“We spend $5 billion a year, and, you know, this buying out of state fossil fuel, coal and gas to power our grid.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 37:17-37:26
“That $5 billion we'll never see again. We're shipping it off to places like Texas, Pennsylvania, and even fueling the conflicts in the…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 37:25-37:36
“Arizona has an opportunity for energy independence. They're getting in the way of that.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 37:35-37:40
“The current commission is providing an incentive to the utilities to build new fossil fuel infrastructure that you're going to be paying for…”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 43:58-44:08
“Since renewables have come on the market decades ago, there's a $4 trillion a year subsidy to fossil fuels.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 44:14-44:21
“Arizona has a chance to achieve energy independence, to achieve affordable, reliable and secure energy for everybody in this state.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 44:20-44:28
“We know that the large companies, when they come in, they know it's more affordable, it's more reliable to have 100% clean energy portfolio.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 44:28-44:36
“We don't need to get to 100%. We just need to get to 73%.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 44:38-44:42
“I believe that the commission is elected to represent the citizens. And our job is to be your voice as citizens on the commission.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 47:45-47:54
“Returning the corporation commission to its constitutional duties of affordability, reliability and security to the ratepayers.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 49:51-49:59
“We still have a large segment of our population here in Arizona that's disconnected from the grid.”
Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission | Uploaded September 3, 2024 | 54:25-54:31