Reality is that the best possible outcome is likely that one of the out-of-staters gets picked.  While I could be mistaken, the two nominees for the commission seem to be busy as usual, if for no other reason than they aren't decernably change agents.  And what do you expect from a beholden Mayor Caldwell.  As long as we don't have voter owned owned elections, it'll be the same rich, politically well connected folks and corporations calling the shots.  But for serious federal intervention corruption is the standard operating procedure of the state.