Sunday, July 30, 2006

So stop worrying about it

Alabama Power's employee PAC has given millions of dollars in the last six years to political action committees that happen to have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to candidates for the Public Service Commission, today's (Mobile) Press-Register reports. But fear not: The utility's employee PAC always attaches a letter to donations asking that "no part of this contribution be used to support or otherwise benefit" PSC candidates, because that could be illegal if it happened, which it doesn't.