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Editor:
With soaring electric bills and threatened huge new powerlines posing increasing livelihood risks to Virginia residents and their environment, the time has come to take a good hard look at the management policies and the integrity of the officials who run the Virginia Electric Power Company.
As a quasi-public utility, with the power to seize anyone’s land under eminent domain, and with a state franchise to operate a virtual monopoly in its jurisdiction, Vepco officials ought to be the first to welcome any thorough investigation into its practices and policities.
Yet their attitude too often has been arrogant toward anyone who dares to question any of their policies. For instance, Donald B. McCammond, a Vepco vice-president, resorted to epithets like in a letter-to-the-editor responding to my letter critical of Vepco's constantly rising rates and its policies. In my letter I had requested that the utility make public, as a matter of responsible public interest, the expense outlays of its chief officers for the past three years, its lobbvine exoenditures
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