Protesters reaction at a 2007 heating on a rate hike request by AmerenUE.

It isn’t easy being a utility regulator in Missouri. Hearings are filled with arcane technical jargon. Politics is hard to escape, especially for Public Service commissioners appointed by…

Missouri Public Service Commissioner Jeff Davis is a walking conflict of interest. Since 2005, he’s been involved in four incidents that raise questions about his objectivity and that of the utility regulatory body on which he serves.
In a tearful 2007 interview…

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Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…

Jeff Davis helped engineer a deal that resulted in a blatantly anti-consumer utility law in 2005.

He helped write the rules that dictate how the law can be used to fatten utility company bottom lines.

And when one of those utilities files a…