In addition to concerns over the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) lack of transparency, preferential rates for industrial customers, and monopolistic control of increasing electricity bills throughout the Valley, we now know that TVA has gone on a luxury spending spree, purchasing corporate jets and a Mercedes Benz edition helicopter in the last 2.5 years, all worth approximately $40 million dollars! 

Who approved these extravagant purchases? Why are rate payer dollars being used for special edition helicopters? Where is the accountability? TVA is supposed to be "public power", but where is the public transparency in this? We the undersigned demand answers from the TVA Board and CEO Bill Johnson.