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to ignore both stockholders and consumers.”
Here in Rappahannock is an example of the tremendous power-weight big utility companies have been allowed to accumulate at the expense of individual rights and how helpless people are to resist their exploitation. Except for our Zoning Board, the State Corporation Commission is the only agency in Virginia government which deals with such matters, and it is coldly indifferent to people. The people are without true representation in matters involving public utilities corporations.
Imagine this country rabbit. A big dog chases it and other big dogs join the chase, and when the rabbit is caught ole man Gov. Agency (He’s the man on whose farm the incident occurs) steps in to see that each dog entitled to a bite of the meat gets it. But the rabbit? Nobody’s interested. He just gets gobbled up! But I say that if enough rabbits get off their cottontails and show their fangs and give ole man Gov. Agency an ultimatum, “either you protect us or we eat up all your lettuce”, maybe united they can get better treatment, for it’s an established fact that sometimes “lettuce” speaks louder than words.
Hoping more citizens will join R.L.E.P.*
Helen M. Kilby
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