California: Senate confirms Freeman to head state power authority

Sac Bee ^ | 8/12/02 | JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press Writer

[NormsRevenge]

SACRAMENTO (AP) - The state Senate, in a fiery two-hour debate that stirred old passions about rolling blackouts and price manipulation by now-bankrupt energy traders, confirmed the nomination Monday of 76-year-old S. David Freeman as the state's top energy chief.

[NormsRevenge]

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[NormsRevenge]

PING

[Dog Gone]

Freeman is probably the most dangerous leftist in the entire country. If I were so inclined, I could post links to some of his papers and statements. This guy is Joseph Stalin, Jr.

To say that he is an enemy of conservatives is an enormous understatement.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can he complete the takeover so that we can have the California Valley and Desert Authority, is the question.

That seems to be the mission that Davis and Democrats have for him!http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/731359/default.asp?func=news&cid=1418&nid=366

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

If I were so inclined, I could post links to some of his papers and statements.

Oh, please, oh, please!

[snopercod]

Not one Republican voted to confirm Freeman? Where, oh where, is lewislynn, a.k.a. Liberal Larry?

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[Dog Gone]

What I really wanted to find was exerpts of his two books, "Energy, A New Era" and "A Time to Choose." Those are scary wacky. I had posted an exerpt from it here a year or more ago, but I can't find it.

You might find his PBS interview informative, though. I found that on the House website of Vermont Socialist, Bernie Sanders.

link

[Dog Gone]

Oh, check out snopercod's link below your post. He has some exerpts there!

Here's a prime example:

"The United States could reduce its demand for energy by as much as 50% if only it would establish a federal agency large enough and forceful enough to impose rationing (on heating fuel as well as gasoline), allocate resources, rearrange the international oil market, set prices, raise taxes, issue energy stamps and redistribute income."

How do you like that?

[Robert357]

While no fan of Freeman, it will make for an interesting power authority. The guy has an ego that is bigger than Alaska. It should be only a matter of time, before he runs afowl of the Davis, ego.

Besides, if and when Simons wins, we might be treated to the specticle of Freeman being fired! I guess there might be a silver lining.

Have you seen the Rough & Tumble summary of the LA Times article on power bonds?

To ease Wall Street's fears that electricity prices will again go haywire, California officials have boosted the size of the energy crisis bond--already the biggest borrowing by a government agency in U.S. history--from $11.1 billion to $11.95 billion. The additional money is to be used as a cash buffer in case power prices skyrocket.

I don't do the LA Times, so I don't know the full article, but it sounds like things are progressing for a bond issue.

[snopercod]

I don't do the LA Times, either. Thanks for the tip, though. Maybe the WSJ will do something on it.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Wow! Thanks.

"...the reason that the governor and the legislature want to create a California power authority is so that we'll be in charge of our own destiny, and we won't have to hope and pray that the Enrons of the world will build us power plants. If they don't, we'll do it ourselves..."

Really chilling stuff, and you can see why Congress' only openly self-declared Socialist is featuring this on his website.