Posted on 08/12/2016 10:23:30 PM PDT by blueplum
Twenty-six energy companies with business before the state donated nearly $10million to Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Democratic Party over the past eight years — donations that often were made within days or weeks of winning favors.
That’s the contention of “Brown’s Dirty Hands“ a report released Wednesday by the Santa Monica-based public interest group Consumer Watchdog. [snip]The report alleges that Brown and his operatives have used the California Democratic Party as “a political slush fund” to receive contributions from unpopular energy companies in amounts greater than permitted to his candidate committee. The group has logged its report as an official complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission.
“The report really paints a troubling picture,” Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court said when the findings were unveiled at a press conference on Wednesday. [snip]The report also alleges that power plant developer NRG wasn’t a Brown donor until the company cut a “sweetheart deal” with the PUC to settle the state’s case over its 2001 electricity price manipulation, touted as a win by the governor’s office.
Rather than paying back the state, the company was allowed to spend $100million of its $120million fine to install electric vehicle charging stations. And two months later, NRG began donations to Brown, his causes and his party that would come to $105,000, the report said. A lawsuit against the PUC, filed by electric charging station competitor Ecotality, called the deal illegal because it awarded a monopoly to an out-of-state company.
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2-page article, lots of red meat to roast over a slow fire
Who's going to take out the trash?
b b b but Enron and Cheney!
/lib trigger
Say it ain’t so!! What California needs is a $100 Billion Bullett train to carry 500 people a day. NOT!
“What California needs is a $100 Billion Bullett train to carry 500 people a day.”
CORRECTION:
They aren’ “people,” they are illegal alien farm workers. Brown’s Bullet Train is for moving these cretins from field to field, because the only place the train will run is up and down the CA Central Valley. The cost of getting it to Los Angeles is another $100 Billion!
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