Press Mention WPKY Online July 8, 2025
SACE Quoted
Despite Growth TVA Facing Board Upheaval
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The TVA Board faces significant upheaval following President Trump's firing of board member Michelle Moore and subsequent nominations of four new members, including major Republican campaign donors. SACE Executive Director Dr. Stephen A. Smith criticizes the process as a manufactured crisis orchestrated by the Trump Administration and Tennessee senators, calling it a dangerous precedent that represents a new low in professional leadership at the agency. The article also notes TVA's selection of Don Moul as its new CEO and upcoming construction of a natural gas plant in Stewart County.
The removal of three duly appointed TVA Board members in good standing with time remaining on their appointments — while replacing them with hyperpartisan campaign contributors of the senators involved in the nomination process — has taken the partisan nature of the TVA Board selection process to a level never seen before in TVA's history.
Stephen A. Smith