Fitz Raised Your Bill

Republicans on the PSC have consistently voted for every increase Georgia Power wants, and all of them take big campaign donations from
Georgia Power affiliates

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When you spend $100 million in advertising, you can blast any message that you want. Doesn’t matter if false, disingenuous, misleading, or just plain stupid. Your cash drowns out any voices that would challenge your narrative. If you were fighting against this when you were younger and not as rich as you are now, you never would’ve made it.

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@KeishaForGA Keisha, thank you for having the courage to stand up to the corrupt Republican power structure. They are ruthless and hateful, and will say anything to beat you, but you got this!

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@ImmigrantCrimes Mr. Collins, it’s rich that you’re trolling Ossoff for supposedly letting criminals in the state. You can’t even keep them out of your own office, right under your nose, lol.

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@MikeCollinsGA Mr. Collins, while you’re posting mug shots, perhaps you’d like to post the one of your campaign chief- who was arrested for kicking a dog, and is the subject along with you of a 31-page ethics investigation about hiring his gf for a no-show job at taxpayer expense. Post that.

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@RickJacksonGA C’mon, Rick. You’ve got plenty of money, so now, just for the fun of it, you want power. This has nothing to do with the people in Georgia, and everything to do with your gargantuan ego. Just say it!

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@Eric_C_Crawford @MikeCollinsGA “Breaker one-nine, we got the Fabricated Background here, Bears all over the place, arresting my staff members, c’mon…”

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@scott_apri82057 @MikeCollinsGA This is a very important point. Instead of guessing about Collins’ skills in judging people and working with them, we can simply observe that his attempts to staff his own office have resulted in three terminations under dishonorable conditions and a 31 page ethics report.
Dude…

[Fitz Raised Your Bill @FitzUppedMyBill]

Mr Tolbert,

Thank you for your response. I understand what you are saying, and I think my last note made it seem like we disagree more than we really do because my wording was less than elegant; I’d like an opportunity to clarify. (Give me some credit- I’ve come a long way since the Titanic, lol).

I believe this is the basic issue:

Georgia Power’s goal is to make the most money for Georgia Power (GP). The goal of the Commission and each individual Commissioner SHOULD be to regulate Georgia Power so that Georgia Power makes a reasonable profit while minimizing the costs and maximizing the benefits to customers- as you said, to produce the benefits that competition would provide if GP were not a government-granted monopoly.

These two goals are diametrically opposite of each other.

Unfortunately, due to regulatory capture and corruption, the goals of the majority of the members of the commission for the last 20 years, up until the present day, have ACTUALLY been the same as Georgia Power’s goals- which is diametrically opposite to what they should be- which has created obscenely-high profits for GP while overcharging customers and damaging the environment.

Assuming you win: you and Peter are both highly-educated and skilled industry experts who have different specialties within the field of Energy. Both of you have, or will have, access to sufficient information, and possess enough expertise, in order to come up with a best-practices framework to move forward as pertains to what the energy mix should be, how tariffs should be structured, what customer rates should be, what GP’s profit should be, etc.

What this best-practices framework is will look slightly different coming from you and coming from Peter, due to your individual professional analyses of the variables involved and the goals to be aimed for, but-

*I believe both of your best-practices proposed plans will end up looking quite similar to each other, but greatly different from what the current plan in place looks like. The plan that each of you will come up with will be much cleaner, cheaper, more reliable, and less risky for customers than the current plan. Ideally, the two of you will work together to come up with a plan that is even better than the one each of you came up with on your own.*

You and Peter won’t need to wait for GP to come to you with proposals to know what the proper thing is to do. Because you and Peter will have a like-minded third vote on the board, Dr Johnson, you will get your way, win every vote over the objections of Jason and Bubba, and force Georgia Power to do the right thing. You will determine the rates and GP’s profit, in the best interest of customers and to the great benefit of Georgia in general.

You, Peter, and Dr. Johnson will have differences of opinion, but you will all be pro-consumer. And you will be in the majority. Jason and Bubba will continue to vote for the interests of Georgia Power, but they will be in the minority.

I understand that this reality is different from the ideal way that the board should work, but GP is screwing us all for billions of dollars using every trick in the book, and we have to recognize political reality and win with the way things actually work in the here and now.

Thank you.

[Fitz Raised Your Bill @FitzUppedMyBill]

Mr Tolbert, thank you again for the continued lively and respectful dialogue. This sort of thing should be the norm, rather the exception, in politics.

Believe me, I hear what you’re saying.

In a perfect world, the five members of the commission would be a elegant and productive amalgam of the interests that come to play - let’s say, an electrical engineer with multiple degrees and a PhD / systems expert such as yourself, a seasoned energy industry professional with extensive experience in the modeling and analysis of rate cases and related topics for IOU’s like Peter, a deeply connected and passionate representive of regular families who have to pay the light bill every month like Dr Johnson, and maybe we’ll throw in a civil rights attorney and a retired legislator to round it out. The discussions will be lively and respectful, they’ll rotate who brings in the donuts, and they’ll all play together in a charity softball league. They all will genuinely like each other. Votes may go this way or they may go that way, but everybody will vote independently according to their intelligence, knowledge, and conscience, and everybody will respect everyone else’s vote. And Georgia Power will sit there and accept whatever the esteemed commissioners decide in their wisdom, and they will say thank you, the profits will be reasonable, the power bills will be manageable, the grid reliability will be proper, there will be lots of clean cheap energy in the mix, everyone will be happy.

But we all know, that’s not the way the real world works: in this real world, Georgia Power is the 800 pound gorilla who has corrupted the commission for 20 years and ripped off Georgians for billions of dollars while they gaslight ordinary people into thinking they just don’t have enough weatherstripping. In the ultimate perversion, Georgia Power profits from the climate that they destroy through an improper energy mix designed to maximize their profits instead of serve the people- It’s a disgraceful, dishonorable, horrifying display of crass greed, corruption, and graft,
Locked in by five Republican commissioners, all of whom are corrupt, all of whom were on the take from Georgia Power, all of whom voted every time for everything that Georgia Power wants. And that’s the way it’s been for the last 20 years.

Then the people got sick of it. They elected Peter and Dr. Johnson. Peter knew the correct energy mix and rate plan- Hell, he’s been giving it for free to the commission as an intervener for the last several years while they laugh at him and ignore him. Dr. Johnson was right there with him, knowing that Peters plan, if implemented, would produce a best practices mix of cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power that would reduce Georgia Power’s profits to a more rational level.

So now we’ve got two corrupt Republicans, who are on the take from Georgia Power, and two great people who know exactly what to do.

If your opponent wins, there are no worries. We will have finally slayed the Smaug of Georgia Power and we can start freeing Georgians from the tyranny that has destroyed their climate and stolen their wallets. We know exactly what to do and we have the votes to do it.

If you win, you’re a wildcard- we don’t know which way you’re going to vote. Common sense would tell you that as a republican, you’re going to vote with them. You claim that you’re gonna be independent, and you know what, I actually believe you. I would love to have it so that if either your opponent or you wins, Georgia wins.

And here’s where I make my main point. The problem is not that the correct solution is not known. The correct solution is known to a high degree of certainty, just ask Peter and he’ll be glad to explain it to you. And as soon as you have access to the information he does you’ll be able to explain it as well. So theoretically, you and Peter will be on the same page from a technical standpoint and we will have the votes to beat Georgia Power.

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The thing about Collins is, we don’t really have to wonder how well he would do if he won this Senate seat. All we have to look at is the way he’s run his own office, and if you have a moment, grab some popcorn and read the 31-page ethics report on him and his staff. You will see his utter lack of judgment in people, and total inability to run a congressional office, for yourselves.
And. he doesn’t seem to be learning over time- if anything he seems to be getting worse. Thank goodness, the prediction markets, as of July 10, have him at a laughable 14% chance of winning. Because a loser is a loser.!
The funny part is, Dooley might have beat Osoff- but because Collins won, Osoff will now glide to victory. So- three cheers for Collins! Lol, what a clown.

[Fitz Raised Your Bill @FitzUppedMyBill]

Mr Tolbert, I applaud the thoughtfulness of your answers. It’s refreshing to have any Republican PSC Commissioner or candidate answer questions from the public in a considered and respectful manner.
I would like to get right to the point, if I may.
If Peter beats Fitz, and then if you were to defeat Shelia, you are the swing vote. The pressure on you from Georgia Power will be literally overwhelming-the influence they wield under the Gold Dome is almost unbelievable, you won’t understand it until it hits you. They have 30 lobbyists! The entire Republican power structure will expect and insist that you vote with the pack. You will be pressured and lobbied so hard, your head will spin. Billions- literally billions- of dollars of Georgia Power unearned excess profit ruthlessly seized by Georgia Power from relentless rent-seeking and corrupt influence of every Republican PSC member for the last 20 years, will be at risk- and they will fight like hell not to lose it. They will promise you the world if you just vote their way, and imply bad things will happen if you don’t…
And, if you continue to vote with Jason and Bubba, absolutely nothing will change.
I hear you when you say your votes will be completely independent, but in the absence of some firm commitments from you on the major issues in this campaign, voters may find no reason to believe you will be a pro-consumer, clean-energy reformer like the two Democrats on the PSC. This is the huge concern as pertains to you being elected. I understand that you want to stay flexible as to firm commitments, but every Republican on the PSC for the last 20 years has said basically what you are saying, and every one of them was corrupted by Georgia Power- all took campaign cash from GA Power affiliates and became reliant on that cash to get reelected, and thus compromised principles they may have had going in. Respectfully, sir, that is the main concern of the informed voter in this race. Forget the rest of the Pledge for now- but you won’t even commit to not taking campaign cash from the industries you regulate- and that should be a litmus test for any candidate for this office. Any such money is always corrupting, without exception.
Thank you.

[Fitz Raised Your Bill @FitzUppedMyBill]

Thank you for the thoughtful response, Mr Tolbert. If you have a moment to respond to the following four important questions, that would be greatly appreciated. They are as follows:

1) Will you sign the Pledge for Public Trust which says you won’t take campaign cash from affiliates of industries you would regulate, and if not, why not, and

2) Under what circumstances would you consider raising rates- and why reducing Georgia Power’s huge profits wouldn’t make raising rates unnecessary, and

3) How can you assure us that NO costs for fuel, infrastructure or in any way otherwise related to data centers will be passed onto Georgia families, and

4) What is your opinion on the misuse of eminent domain by Georgia Power to take and destroy homes to make way for the transmission infrastructure for these new data centers?

Thank you.

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@TeamOverhaulGA Polls? Check out the prediction market- where folks actually put their money - as of 7/10/26, Ossoff is shown as having a 86% (Eighty-Six Percent) chance of winning! Team Collins, how ya’ like them odds? lol!

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@TeamJacksonHQ Rock God Jackson! I bet Creed sounds freakin’ sweeeet on the entertainment system in his private jet- so much b-a-s-s base that the caviar rattles off the tray tables! Gimme some of that 808!

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@MikeCollinsGA It’s almost as if this video is intended to portray Collins as a rags-to-riches, working-class hero- sounds kind of contrived, doesn’t it? ‘Cause they couldn’t use your real backstory.

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@Eric_C_Crawford @MikeCollinsGA “It’s a long way to go
And it’s sho’ time to get there
(Something something something)
And watch ol’ Collins run!!”

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@RickJacksonGA I’m sorry Mr Jackson, I am for real!
Didn’t mean to make your PR team cry, I apo-li-gize a trillion times.

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@Eric_C_Crawford @MikeCollinsGA LOLOL He sure is! A workhorse driving a semi!

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Fitz, you should get a citation for abuse of the word “affordable”. Don’t use that word when you speak to the low income families whose medications, and even families, were destroyed when their power was disconnected due to the outrageous rate increases you voted for again and again.