"The question now for Florida environmentalists who are weary of the state lagging behind the rest of the country in employing alternative sources of power and rewarding conservation is: Can the politics of energy play out in 2014? One candidate is hoping it will work in 2013. Amanda Murphy, a 43-year-old financial planner, is running as a Democrat in the special House District 36 seat recently vacated by Mike Fasano, who was appointed Tax Collector in Pasco County. She says that nuclear cost recovery is one of the most frequently mentioned issues as she canvasses Pasco neighborhoods campaigning for the seat. Murphy says a full repeal of the law would benefit everyone in her district, from small to large business owners to the school system and everyone else when it comes to their energy bills. Murphy says the intention of the 2006 law was good, but “now they just want to keep taking the money from us for a new project that they don’t even have in place yet. Come on.” Pasco County’s most powerful Republican is Will Weatherford, the current Speaker of the House. In a speech given to the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg earlier this month, he justified why both the power companies and the Legislature thought it was a good deal at the time, but admits in retrospect that it was “not a wise decision.”
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:28:18 +0000
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