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Edmond Sun: Local Woman Seeks Office in 2008 |
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
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John A. Williams
The Edmond Sun
EDMOND —
Republican
leader Dana Murphy of Edmond has announced she is running for the
Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat vacated by former Commissioner
Denise Bode.
“This state has been incredibly good to me and all my opportunities have come here and I want to give back,” she said.
Bode’s
seat currently is filled by Democrat Jim Roth, whom Gov. Brad Henry
appointed to the interim position. The election will be Nov. 4, 2008.
Murphy
has served as an Administrative Law Judge at the commission and has
experience in the oil and gas industry as a geologist and attorney. She
also has volunteered her time as vice chairwoman of the Oklahoma
Republican Party.
Gary Jones, the state GOP chairman, said Murphy’s experience will help her in the race.
“I
think she will be a very formidable candidate and would make a very
good corporation commissioner if she is elected,” he said. Murphy ran a
campaign for the commission in 2002. Roth announced this morning that
he would seek re-election for a full term at the commission.
Murphy believes that by encouraging energy development and innovation, the commission can help lead Oklahoma into the future.
“I
think so many more Oklahomans are aware of energy issues now based on
what they are hearing about coal-fired plants, natural gas, CO2
emissions. Even if they don’t fully understand it at least they have
heard it,” she said.
She said she would like to have a closer
look at a proposed coal-fired power plant that the Corporation
Commission turned down by a 2-1 vote in October.
“I would have
been open to considering going forward on using coal to power the
plant, but again I would have to look at the testimony that was
presented on the economics.”
OG&E and project partners
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority
were rejected in their bid to build the 950-megawatt plant. OMPA, which
provides Edmond’s power, would have owned 8 percent of the Red Rock
plant.
“They met the first hurdle and that is the need for
additional power. Then it came down to whether they should recoup their
costs back at the time it was built,” she said.
The original article can be found here .
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