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[Chuck Mulholland]

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Subject: Invitation for your group to join - fROM John Kowalko, STATE REP.

Subject: Invitation for your group to join

Hope you'll join us and lend your organizations name to this effort. I'll need your response ASAP scheduling either Tues 9th or Wed. 10th at 11 AM.

This is the first draft and if you are including your organization you will have input but we could use "bodies" at the press conference.

Thanks for your interest and committment.

John Kowalko

 

          LAWMAKERS JOIN VARIOUS GROUPS HOSTING PRESS CONFERENCE TO PROTEST DELMARVA’S PERSISTENT RATE INCREASE REQUESTS

 

 

            Delmarva’s recent filing for a $42 million Electric Rate Increase representing a 19.6% increase on the delivery side of the bill has sparked an outcry from organizations that include AARP, AFSCME, DACA, and others. These groups will be joined at a press conference, on the steps of the Carvel Building, by twenty Delaware legislators who agree that the consequences to average, low-income and fixed income families could be catastrophic, in these volatile economic times.

 

            Joseph Rigby, head of Pepco Holdings which is the parent company of Delmarva Power, has said he wants to speed up the “utility’s” collection for what it plans to invest in infrastructure improvements in Delaware. This ambition will be borne by the ratepayers although Pepco Holdings Inc. reported profits of $43 million, up from $19 million during the same quarter a year earlier.

 

            State Representative John Kowalko, 25^th District said “the unfettered ability of utility companies to repeatedly secure more income from families that are in tenuous financial circumstances threatens any economic recovery and will destabilize many families in Delaware”. “I am very pleased that nineteen of my colleagues chose to join with these well regarded organizations in voicing their concerns and recognizing that the process which allows these incessant cost increases to move forward needs to be examined and reformed”.

 

            Representatives Kowalko, Osienski, J.J. Johnson, Baumbach, Brady, Potter, Mitchell, Keeley, Bennett, Miro, Ramone, Atkins, Bolden, Blakey, Jaques, Kim Williams, Mulrooney, Viola, Heffernan, and Longhurst have all expressed their commitment to ensuring that ratepayers interests are considered equally with those of the utilities.