{"id":1351,"date":"2014-10-09T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2014-10-09T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:57:09","slug":"in-first-radio-ad-brenda-hutchinson-hits-potomac-edison-17-2-percent-electricity-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"In First Radio Ad, Independent Brenda Hutchinson Hits Potomac Edison 17.2 Percent Electricity Rate Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Hutchinson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/pbUJFTC6djM\">first radio ad<\/a> takes aim at Potomac Edison\u2019s proposed 17.2 percent rate hike.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson is running to unseat Republican Daryl Cowles in the West Virginia House of Delegates (District 58 &#8212; Morgan and Hampshire counties.). Cowles is the House minority whip. There is no Democrat in the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/brendaelectric-page-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1352\" title=\"brendaelectric-page-001\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/brendaelectric-page-001-584x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cowles received <a href=\"http:\/\/assets01.cfinance.clarityelections.com\/wv\/\/dt_1\/rp_10019\/ecc_1072\/COWLES%20G1.pdf\">$1,000 in 2014<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfrs.wvsos.com\/#\/report\/56\/33962\/en\">$1,000 in 2012<\/a> from the FirstEnergy political action committee. Potomac Edison is a unit of FirstEnergy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotomac Edison wants to raise your electricity bill by 17.2 percent,\u201d Hutchinson says. \u201cI can\u2019t afford that. And thousands of my fellow citizens in Morgan and Hampshire counties can\u2019t afford that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd everywhere I go, I am met with an outpouring of opposition to this proposed rate hike,\u201d Hutchinson says in the ad. \u201cEarlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1338\">I joined many other of my fellow citizens<\/a> before the Public Service Commission and urged the Commission to reject Potomac Edison\u2019s rate hike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn November 4, vote for a voice independent of the big utility companies,\u201d Hutchinson says. \u201cVote Brenda Hutchinson for House of Delegates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Hutchinson\u2019s first radio ad takes aim at Potomac Edison\u2019s proposed 17.2 percent rate hike. Hutchinson is running to unseat Republican Daryl Cowles in the West Virginia House of Delegates (District 58 &#8212; Morgan and Hampshire counties.). Cowles is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1351\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}