Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner
Per the Oklahoma Corporation Commission website:The Commission is a regulatory agency for the State of Oklahoma with emphasis on the Fuel, Oil and Gas, Public Utilities, and Transportation Industries. The Corporation Commission comprises three commissioners who are elected by statewide vote to serve six-year terms. The terms are staggered so one commissioner vacancy occurs every two years. To be elected, a candidate must be 30 years old, a resident citizen of Oklahoma for over two years next preceding the election, and qualified voters under the Constitution and laws. Learn more about the history of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission here.
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Brad Boles
(Rep)
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Rhonda Eastman
(Dem)
How does your education, professional and community experience prepare you to be a good Corporation Commissioner?
What do you regard as the most pressing issues that will come before the commission in the next few years? How would you, if elected handle these issues?
How would you as commissioner protect needs of consumers in a time of increasing energy costs?
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Campaign Phone
5392661276
Age
53
Education
College
Professional Experience
State Government Employee 16 years; Business Manager executive 6 years
Volunteer Service
Informal volunteer service: Animal rescue and fostering.
The Corporation Commissioners will often have to review disputes and cases investigating claims, and render decisions based on policy and law. My previous experience as an adjudicator with the State of Oklahoma, I would review cases, investigate claims, and render decisions based on policy and law.
With the rise of Data Centers, their consumption of energy and water resources, the infrastructure needs as well as the cost associated and who is paying for these costs.
With careful review of the cause for the increase in cost. If costs are due to higher energy costs to produce energy due to events outside of our control or infrastructure updates that are being shared to all customers. Additionally, It is my belief that with the rise of high consumption industries, we will have to have the ability to produce more energy, or the costs will go up. I am very interested in developing research at OU for geothermal that would be tied to the grid. We will need to produce more energy. There have been problems with some of our existing green energy, but newer technology has made vast improvements, and I am very interested in seeing if these improvements will be able to address a lot of the problems we have had with wind and solar.
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