“During Wednesday’s debate in the legislature over whether to allow the state’s two major utility companies to raise rates without approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission, Sen. Kyle McCarter, R-Lebanon, called out an elephant in the room…A State Journal-Register review of campaign finance records found that, of the Springfield area’s six lawmakers, Ameren was among the top 10 overall donors to three of them – Reps. Rich Brauer, R-Petersburg, Jim Watson, R-Jacksonville, and Raymond Poe, R-Springfield – during their political careers.”
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