Shopping around for power: Missouri bill aims to break up electric utilities

By: Jana Rose Schleis

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: March 4, 2026

Words: 1,905

Last Updated: 1 week ago

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Don Mayhew believes in the free market.

“We have choice in a lot of different things. Go to a grocery store — there’s four different brands of green beans you can buy,” said Mayhew, a Republican Crocker. “We know that competition in any marketplace is the foundation — the cornerstone — of our capitalist system.”

That’s why Mayhew, who represents a mostly rural House district that runs from the Lake of the Ozarks to Fort …

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