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32. Good move. All Evergy cares about is larger dividend payments (.69 per share now) and keeping

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:09 PM

Dec 3

the CEO dragging down $7M per year while the rest of us suffer. I've NEVER seen an increase like this one with any utility and it went down with the blessing of the KCC.

Dividends should be fucking illegal for utility companies.

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Good move. All Evergy cares about is larger dividend payments (.69 per share now) and keeping Bengus81 Dec 3 #32

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