Lawyers for the utility also asked for any documents exchanged between the Senate and three other news organizations: the Orlando Sentinel, The Florida Times-Union and The Tampa Bay Times. But it turns out FPL didn’t just make a records request for the Herald material. Reuter said FPL heard about the letter and exchange “through the grapevine” and decided to ask the Senate for the documents. But FPL put the letter - and the recording - on the webpage going after Klas and the Herald to show what they called her “troubling conduct.” The Senate had not publicized this letter. In his letter, Simpson, who is running for agriculture commissioner, said that Klas’ questioning had “crossed the line of reporting and informing to advocating for organizations that will bring litigation against the Legislature.” Randolph Bracy, an Orlando Democrat running for Congress, that was recorded by a top aide to Simpson. FPL also got an audio recording of a brief exchange between Klas and state Sen. 22 letter from Senate President Wilton Simpson to Miami Herald executive editor Monica Richardson complaining about Klas for her coverage on redistricting efforts. We think that’s unacceptable.”įPL’s feud with the Herald, however, prompted the utility to file a public records request with the Florida Senate, which turned over a Nov. “It seems like they are trying to hide something from their readers. “We want to have good relations with the media,” said David Reuter, chief communications officer with FPL. FPL says it offered up an opinion piece challenging the article, only to have it appear in a heavily edited form in the “letters to the editor” section that was never placed online. That article says that FPL is backing an effort to hamstring the emerging industry. 20 Herald story done in conjunction with environmental news group Floodlight on proposed legislation dealing with rooftop solar. The news site Florida Politics was the first to report the creation of the site and its contents.Īn FPL spokesman acknowledged that this marked the first time the utility “felt the need to do this” but it was angered by a Dec. It starts with Florida Power & Light, a powerful political player and donor with a good relationship with the state’s Republican leaders.įPL launched a webpage - labeled “Truth Matters” - on Wednesday that lashed out at the Miami Herald, and contends the news organization’s Tallahassee bureau chief Mary Ellen Klas is biased against them. Prod.OK, here’s a made-in-Florida piece of drama that folds in the state’s largest electric utility, a well-known news organizations (and a veteran reporter), the Republican Senate president seeking higher office, redistricting, and oh, the “ghost candidate” scandal about the 2020 elections. "Hideīy Christopher WL Hart, Dan Maher, Michael Montelongo Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. rewritten version of the previous case, the same authors. Designed to acquaint students with the process and to prepare them for the class. Provides a good understanding, QIP, which is associated with the adoption of the utility of the state of near-crisis operations respected and that was the model for many other successful domestic QIP author. Students use a variety of frames and statistical tools for each step of the process. This exercise gives students in that division FPL used in an attempt to "improve service." In particular, the process requires students to determine the "best service" to the conditions applicable to the utility company, to determine the reasons for less than perfect service, then select the that is to attack, create a list of potential solutions, and to determine a plan of action. Florida Power and Light (FPL) has developed a well-known Improvement Program (QIP).