To the editor:

This article (“Municipal electricity aggregation launches in May,” The Portsmouth Times, March 9) is profoundly misleading and NextEra Energy is a complete con perpetrated by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor and enemy of democracy and human rights!

Please look this up for yourselves! NextEra Energy pumped millions of dollars into DeSantis’s campaign! What is the price DeSantis demands. Nothing short of a basic right in the electric utility industry … the right to a shutoff notice!

Consumer groups, advocates and utilities fought hard over shutoffs (I was on an advisory group to establish Rhode Island’s shutoff structure).

DeSantis’s goal, in Florida, and coming soon to seven Rhode Island victim communities is this: DeSantis’s goal in Florida is to eliminate shutoff notices for, likely communities of color and the poor!

You must learn this con foisted on you by Rhode Island legislators!

Peter Sheil

Tiverton