NARUC President Wins Primary
Steve Mitnick has authored five books on the economics, history, and people of the utilities industries. While in the consulting practice leadership of McKinsey & Co. and Marsh & McLennan, he advised utility leaders. He led a transmission development company and was a New York Governor’s chief energy advisor. Mitnick was an expert witness appearing before utility regulatory commissions of six states, D.C., FERC, and in Canada, and taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, and statistics at Georgetown University.
Public Utilities Fortnightly does not endorse candidates running for political office. That being said, we couldn’t be prouder of Julie Fedorchak, NARUC’s President and a North Dakota Commissioner for more than a decade. Three weeks ago, on the eleventh of June, Fedorchak prevailed in the Republican Primary and her name will appear on the ballot this November in an election to determine who shall sit in N.D.’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Indeed, Fedorchak’s win was nearly a landslide against several opponents. With almost all the vote in, forty-six percent went with her versus a little less than thirty percent for the second-place finisher and little less than twenty percent against the third-place finisher.
Fedorchak has said, in a local television news report, that of KFYR-TV, “I’m not interested in becoming a social media star. I’m not interested in becoming a celebrity nationwide on Fox News or any channel. I really just want to get to work and find others like me to get to work, even if we do not have the same ideas.”