Gray "Dim-Bulb" Davis Took $119,000 from Enron!

Fox News | 02-05-2002 | Brit Hume Special Report

[Dog Gone]

Well, har dee har har. I'll make sure that some California newspapers get letters to the editor about this.

[Brilliant]

So Davis took money from Enron? Maybe that's why he signed all of those long term contracts to buy electricity at exhorbitant rates. We need an independent prosecutor here to investigate the quid pro quo.

[Henchster]

"So when is Gray-Out going to return the $119,000 to California utilities and ratepayers?"

I don't know, but I'm first in line, with the Hench servers electricity consumption, it'll be a hefty rebate.

[TheGoodDoc]

"He refuses to return the money."

The shortfall of power in California is far less than the shortfall of ethics and competence by the moronic/personality-disordered/dim-bulb/laughably pathetic/caricature excuse for a Governor and his sociopathic Democrat rodent like associates.

[deport]

Not just Enron, the Gov. had his hand out big time.....

Three major utility companies in California have contributed nearly $10 million to candidates since 1998. Governor Davis has tapped those same three utilities and several energy producers for nearly one million dollars for his campaign coffers during that same period.

California’s three largest utilities contributed nearly $1.6 million to former Gov. Pete Wilson, current Gov. Gray Davis and the seven primary sponsors of the state’s deregulation law from 1994 through 2000.

[Rain-maker]

Bless us all that nutjobs like Gray Duffis are on the west coast in the land of fruits and flakes.

STAY TUNED: power blackouts coming soon to a California summer near you!

[monkeyshine]

Maybe that's why he signed all of those long term contracts to buy electricity at exhorbitant rates.

hence your screen name :-)

[DoughtyOne]

Does anyone remember when I and other Californians complained bitterly about some prices Texas energy concerns were charging our state for energy last year?  There was a lot of California bashing going on, something to the effect that we couldn'g get our house in order.  We maintained that part of the reason we couldn't get our house in order was because of companies like...  well, folks can figure that out.

Yes Governor Davis took big money from Enron.  Yes some of us were pretty angry that he was facilitating some huge energy purchases from Texas concerns at ten times the normal costs.  When we made our feelings known, we told that we shouldn't raise the issue.

Well, I guess we should have raised the issue after all.  And Governor Davis was as big a jerk as we were trying to say he was.  That's the rest of the story.

Don't be too quick to adopt knee-jerk reactions folks.  This was a Texas corporation manipulating the market.  It wasn't the state of Texas' fault.  And we weren't trying to say that at all.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Hildy]

About to roll out ads? They've been running for about a month already.

[goodnesswins]

Hey....I thought Sheila Jackson Lee was the biggest receiver of funds from Enron......?????

[Henchster]

Biggest receiver in Congress. Even more than the Senator from her State, KBH.

Unfortunately for Doofus, he took even MORE!

[kcvl]

On Friday, he questioned two contributions Davis accepted from energy companies on Oct. 30, 2001, even though the governor publicly swore off taking money from utility companies and power generators last winter.

Caithness Energy LLC in New York and FPL Energy LLC in Florida each gave Davis $25,000, and Jones wanted to know if the governor had changed his policy.

[BOBTHENAILER]

There have been numerous Federal investigations into manipulation and price gouging, all to no avail...no smoking gun. The situation was an improperly deregulateed market caught in a supply/demand squeeze. Little supply, big demand = high prices in a sellers market.

Collapsed prices of natural gas have temporarily eased that problem. If the economy turns around, power plant building remains stalled or slowed, no north to south power distribution network get completed, you're looking at another winter 2000 situation.

IMHO complete deregulation would go a long way to alleviate that situation; wholesale users as well as individual. NE markets around PA did not see the same price spike precisely because they were totally deregulated.

[Vineyard]

I seem to recall that when the records of the energy costs were released (which Gov. Gray Davis fought an unsuccessful battle in courts to prevent the release) .. . it turned out that local "PUBLIC" power companies like Los Angeles Power & Light were charging MORE for the sale of their excess power than any private company was. Seems that there was extreme "profiteering" within California that has been ignored, because the companies doing the gouging are local government owned power companies.

Seems that blaming ENRON for excessive power costs in CA must be judged AFTER looking at what OTHER power companies were charging (including the local Muni's!!!)

Mike

[nocommies]

anyone see jackson lee last night on fox getting her fat butt wheeled around the corner to work in a govt car? she is a shameless skunk, she brings NOTHING to the table for america. she is all thats wrong in america.

[kcvl]

Common Cause says its study of political contributions shows the energy industry gave more than $4 million to the election campaigns of Gov. Gray Davis and state lawmakers over the last two years. "The top three elected officials alone collected one-fourth of the $4 million," Mr. Harshbarger says. "How the [energy] crisis will be resolved is a mystery to us all. But we do know that the utility companies have invested heavily in your leaders."

The Common Cause study includes campaign contributions as well as lobbying expenses the companies reported to the secretary of state. Power generators gave $608,532 to Mr. Davis during 1999 and 2000, the report says along with $3.4 million to state lawmakers. Another $820,514 went to other statewide officers plus $339,900 to political parties, it says.

[Dog]

Ping!

[Henchster]

"IMHO complete deregulation would go a long way to alleviate that situation; wholesale users as well as individual. NE markets around PA did not see the same price spike precisely because they were totally deregulated. "

BINGO! The problem wasn't DE-regulation, it was MIS-regulation. The bozos allowed the wholesale prices to go up, but the retail prices remained fixed. Guess what? Californians AREN'T as stupid as everyone thinks. They sucked up that cheap power like a cold beer in August. Couple that with the lack of power GENERATING stations here in Cal, and you have a market waiting to implode.

True deregulation would solve the problem in a month or two.