Borders Resigns From PSC

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Former state Senator Charlie Borders confirmed Tuesday that he has resigned as a member of the Kentucky Public Service Commission. Borders, a longtime executive of Ashland Inc. and King's Daughter's Medical Foundation, had served about 2 1/2 years on the panel that decides utility rate increases. Governor Steve Beshear appointed Borders to the position amid criticism from Republicans who accused him of trying to weaken the GOP's majority hold in the Senate by appointing Republican lawmakers to posts that required them to leave the Senate. Beshear appointed Senate Republican Dan Kelly of Springfield to a judiciary seat around the same time Borders went to the PSC.