r/aboutMassachusetts

Fourteen of those donations arrived since September 10, including the legal maximum $1,000 from Nolan on September 21. Matching amounts went to Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll the same days.

The timing lines up with Healey’s push for faster federal review of a gas pipeline expansion Eversource supports. Nolan has said he recently had a friendly chat with Healey and Driscoll. At an industry conference he told the room her criticism of utility “greed” and profits is just election-year noise. He said they have good relations, the knocks are “nothing personal,” and after the election “the volume is going to go right down.” He has given the annual maximum to her in most recent years.

Nothing here is illegal. These are personal checks from employees, not company money, and the individual limit is $1,000 a year. Still, Massachusetts ratepayers face some of the highest electric bills in the country. The governor appoints the DPU commissioners who approve Eversource’s rate cases, and the company keeps reporting strong profits and large executive pay packages. Nolan’s own words point to a simple preference: a known regulator and quieter criticism once the campaign ends.

Any particular reason the people running the utility that keeps sending you those bills would rather she stay in office?

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WTF, democrats will tell you they just need more money. What a disgrace!