BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)--Attorney General Andrea Campbell said Tuesday she will again prioritize legislation this session banning third-party suppliers from selling electricity directly to residential customers, while declining to comment on a top lawmaker's romantic relationship with a powerful lobbyist who was working against the policy last term. The proposed ban was backed by Campbell, Gov. Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Massachusetts Senate, but it failed to survive private House-Senate conference committee negotiations on a clean energy bill that passed at the end of the 2023-2024 session.  Eversource warns about new scheme going around that’s affecting its customers The Boston Globe reported in December that lead negotiator Rep. Jeff Roy, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, was in a relationship with lobbyist Jennifer Crawford, who represented a major third-party supplier trying to protect the controversial industry. "I don't want to speak to Chairman Roy's relationships or whatever else, or what informed what he did or didn't do," Campbell said on GBH's "Boston Public Radio" when co-host Jim Braude asked her reaction to "this lead person helping to kill a proposal." The Globe also reported that Roy disclosed the relationship to the House clerk and delegated negotiations on third-party suppliers to Rep. Tackey Chan. Campbell, in her monthly radio interview, attempted to steer the focus to the new session, where she said she aims "to get a bill passed in the Legislature that would end the individual, residential competitive electricity supply market." She also hinted at another forthcoming report from her office about financial losses Bay Staters have incurred from competitive suppliers. Last year, Campbell's office reported that Massachusetts residents lost more than $577 million through competitive electric supply contracts in the last eight years. "We have an industry that is preying upon, and in many ways, using deceptive marketing tactics, preying upon households, usually low-income households, even certain communities, for their products that are not saving them any money," Campbell said. While the AG acknowledged her office can file lawsuits to hold third-party suppliers accountable, she insisted a legislative fix is needed and "reasonable." "This legislative fix needs to happen. That's my position," Campbell said. "I don't know why people do things they do in the State House." Braude asked Campbell whether she was comfortable with a "key decision-maker on this issue having a relationship with one of the key lobbyists for the opposition." Campbell demurred, saying, "It's not about my comfortability." Pressed more broadly about when lawmakers should recuse themselves, Campbell opened up. "Well, I do think if you lack some objectivity and you have (a) significant relationship of some sort that it would interfere with your ability to make a judgement that is objective, you should consider recusing yourself. I would have to do the same thing based on any relationships I have," Campbell said. She continued "And actually, sometimes I don't, because I know, even if a donor or someone supports me, and I will call that donor and say, 'Respectfully, love ya, but we're still suing you because I'm not accountable to donors; I'm accountable to the people that put me here.'"