The AARP is doing more than speaking out against OG&E’s push for a $164 million rate hike—it’s putting a protest plan into action with a personal delivery of thousands of postcards from customers opposed to it as well.
AARP leadership and volunteers plan to hand-carry about 7,000 postcards from the utility’s customers to Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners Dana Murphy, Todd Hiett and Bob Anthony on Tuesday morning.
While OG&E customers battle skyrocketing food, medicine and gas prices, OG&E reports soaring profits and has requested a $164 million rate hike. The corporation commissioners granted a rate hike in December 2021, and now, months later, OG&E wants more said the AARP in a statement.
Thousands of OG&E customers sent postcards addressed to commissioners Murphy, Hiett and Anthony, many with handwritten notes pleading for the rate hike to be denied. AARP Oklahoma is asking Oklahoma’s elected corporation commissioners to reject the $164 million rate hike and give consumers the relief they deserve, an $18 million rate decrease.
AARP Oklahoma State Director Sean Voskuhl as well as AARP Oklahoma Volunteer State President Jim Randall and AARLP Oklahoma utility attorney Deborah Thompson will make the presentation Tuesday at 10 a.m.
It follows a weekend op-ed by the AARP’s Jim Randle who wrote in the Sunday Oklahoman “enough is enough.”
Writing in the newspaper, Randle said state regulators should turn down the utility’s request.
Click here for Randle’s column