The Public Utilities Commission, meeting publicly in 2016. The $61 million bribery scandal involving Ohio's nuclear plant bailout law and a utility widely believed to be FirstEnergy has brought new attention to the commission that regulates utilities. The chair of the Public Utilities Commission resigned in November after an FBI raid on his home. All this has some suggesting PUCO commissioners should be elected by voters instead of selected by the governor. Among the opponents to electing PUCO commissioners is Ned Hill, a professor of Economic Development at Ohio State. He said he's concerned about dark money from undisclosed donors in races that are way down the ballot, and about extreme far right or far left candidates turning up in those contests.