1:00 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 University. 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. “You’ll have these commissioners essentially coming through, or could be coming through the primary system. And that scares the bejesus out of me," Hill said, in a discussion with the City Club of Cleveland last month.