Washington, D.C. — Following news that Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Chairwoman Marissa Gillett has resigned from her role as the state’s top utilities regulator, following a years-long campaign from Connecticut’s investor-owned utilities to force her out, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

“After a multi-year bullying campaign to undermine the rule of law, Wall Street-run monopoly utilities finally succeeded in pushing out Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Chair Marissa Gillett, one of the only regulators in the country who has actually lowered rates for Americans,” said Pat Garofalo, Director of State and Local Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “Connecticut consumers are about to pay a big price for the rampant corruption that has undermined the public interest. It is time for elected leaders to get ahold of the rampant authoritarian practices happening on Wall Street and stop this looting and pillaging of ordinary Americans.”

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.