More on Florida Public Service Commission members and their BFFs, the executives at Florida Power & Light whom they're supposed to be regulating. We knew one PSC staffer went to a Kentucky Derby Day party at the home of an FPL exec. We knew that three PSC staffers gave confidential Blackberry messaging codes to an FPL executive, enabling a medium that may have let them communicate without leaving a record. We know that FPL is looking for a huge rate increase, part of which with it would buy an executive jet. Now we have this, from the Miami Herald:

In an emotional appeal, a utility regulator apologized Tuesday for casting a ``cloud'' over the Public Service Commission, but insisted she broke no rules in dining with an executive of Florida Power & Light as it sought a $1.3 billion rate increase.

Commissioner Katrina McMurrian sounded choked up after Commissioner Nathan Skop suggested she had engaged in ``completely unacceptable'' behavior by having a meal with FPL Treasurer Paul I. Cutler in New York before a March 10 utility conference.

FPL Group, FPL's parent, almost merged with BGE parent Constellation Energy three years ago.