The Socialist Playbook Arrives at the ACC: Working Families Party Drops $100K to Buy Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill
Arizonans deserve to know exactly who is trying to dictate our policy and control our ratepayer dollars. While everyday families are battling inflation and high monthly power bills, national left-wing groups are opening up their deep pocketbooks to capture control of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).
The latest campaign finance disclosures expose a massive, coordinated cash dump targeting our state's utility oversight body. On October 2, 2026, the Working Families Party PAC dropped $100,000.00 in independent expenditures split evenly between Democratic candidates Clara Pratte ($50,000) and Jonathon Hill ($50,000). On that exact same day, Chispa AZ PAC joined the push with identical matching expenditures for both candidates, bringing a single-day dark money injection of over $102,000 straight into the Democratic ACC slate.
Who Is the Working Families Party?
To understand why this $100,000 expenditure is so dangerous for Arizona ratepayers, you have to look at what the Working Families Party (WFP) actually stands for. The WFP is a national, self-described progressive political machine that operates as a political conduit for Democratic Socialists.
This is the exact same radical organization that champions extreme economic experimentation across the country, including tax hikes on businesses, green mandates, and defunding law enforcement. Between 2020 and 2024, the Working Families Party National PAC spent nearly $1 million in Arizona political races alone, pushing far-left candidates into key seats.
Now, they have turned their sights on the Arizona Corporation Commission. The ACC is responsible for setting utility rates and ensuring grid stability across our state. It is supposed to be a neutral regulatory shield that protects consumers and secures dependable power. But national socialist groups like WFP view the ACC as a prime political trophy to force radical climate mandates onto Arizona's energy grid.
The Double-Whammy: Working Families Party and Chispa AZ
It is no coincidence that the Working Families Party PAC and Chispa AZ PAC dropped identical, line-item cash amounts for both Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill on the very same day. As our previous watchdog reports have documented, Chispa AZ PAC functions as a dark money conduit for Democrats, having funneled over $4.7 million into Arizona campaigns from out-of-state hubs in D.C., New York, and California.
When national socialist networks like the Working Families Party collaborate with coastal-funded conduits like Chispa, the goal is clear:
Forcing Grid-Threatening Mandates: Demanding arbitrary, 100% clean energy deadlines that prematurely shut down reliable baseload power like natural gas and nuclear energy.
Hiking Utility Rates: Passing the massive costs of unproven grid experiments directly onto everyday Arizona households and small business owners.
Buying Policy Compliance: Ensuring that if Pratte and Hill take seats on the Commission, their primary allegiance is to their out-of-state dark money enablers rather than Arizona ratepayers
Protecting Arizona's Grid and Economic Freedom
Arizona's economic success relies on reliable, affordable energy and free enterprise. When national political parties and out-of-state PACs inject over $100,000 in a single day to install a partisan slate on a local regulatory board, true representation for Arizona families is stolen.
If Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill rely on $50,000 checks from national socialist PACs to get elected, Arizonans must ask a simple question: whose interests will she serve when utility rates are on the line? We will continue to track the money trails, expose these coastal cash dumps, and ensure Arizona voters know who is buying our elections from the outside.