He cannot simply "void" them; rather, he will waste California taxpayers dollars trying to take them down in the courts, and the energy companies will fight him every step of the way.
In the end, he will lose.
The only reason the moneyed interests, their media, and Pete Wilson's machine are afraid to beat Senator McClintock over his head with it, is either he is dead-on right, or they are waiting until October 5 to reveal how wrong he is. Either way, we must make this issue the grassroots buzz all over the state.
If you want to get people to abandon Senator McClintock for our own good, why not prove him wrong instead of bloviating?
He cannot simply "void" them; rather, he will waste California taxpayers dollars trying to take them down in the courts, and the energy companies will fight him every step of the way.
In the end, he will lose.
Title, Chapter, and Section of the California Code, please.
McClintock has cited them, can you?
That is also my asumption.
My other assumption is that legal debts must be paid off. There is no escape. There is no debt fairy.
The State is not allowed constitutionally to practice deficit spending, yet there is no penalty for their doing so. First thing that needs to happen is an initiative called Legislative Incompetence Act. I am serious. This would prevent deficit spending, and really egregious acts like leaving the state to prevent quorums, a la Texas.
The penalty must be mandatory serious jail time, and forfeiture of all benefits including retirement, or barring that, restitution.
None of us, on a family level, can ever earn enough money to address all the "good" things that we can imagine and set right. Why should a state be allowed to?
And then there's the out and out outrageous funding of things like gay parades or teaching mandatory Islam in all our schools.
California is one sick state. Fix it now or prepare for a fiscal funeral and/or a civil insurrection. Legislating legalized extortion can only work so long.
he will waste California taxpayers dollars trying to take them down in the courtsThat makes about as much sense as anti-recallers complaining about the cost of the recall. The deficit currently increases at a rate of approximately the cost of a recall per day and a half. The cost of fighting these contracts in court (and I don't think the energy co's will put up that big of a fight from the PR perspective) will be about 3 or 4 hours of deficit growth... Well worth the odds...
"Senator McClintock has pledged to immediately sign a stipulation for the court case seeking to void those contracts, admitting that Governor Davis' negotiator had a conflict of interest, allowing the court to void those contracts and save the people of California a small fortune."
Avoiding_Sulla...you said that.
"He cannot simply "void" them; rather, he will waste California taxpayers dollars trying to take them down in the courts, and the energy companies will fight him every step of the way."
sinkspur said that.
So, you Sulla said that the issue will have to be decided in the Courts, and so did sinkspur. You seem to have this idea that the power companies will simply walk away from tens of billions of dollars in cintracts when face by McClintock, sinkspur thinks that they will fight in Court, costing California a whole ton of money in Court fees.
"If you want to get people to abandon to support Senator McClintock for our own good based on this idea, why not prove him sinkspur wrong instead of bloviating, and convince us all how the energy companies will walk away without a Court fight?"
As far as to whether the energy companies or McClintock will win in Court, your guess is no better than anyone else's. I have a tendency to believe that it's going to be a real mother getting those contracts voided.
This reminds me of what President Jackson said when the Supreme Court ruled that his actions were unconstitutional: "The Supreme Court is free to send its army after mine."
Likewise, if Governor McClintock voids the contracts, the judges can pound their gavels all they want, but the money isn't under their control. And one thing I've noticed about judges is that they tend to back down when the public is rabidly 99% in favor of a policy -- as they are on this one.
Perhaps you're thinking that George W. Bush will send in the federal troops to enforce the energy contracts? Sorry, he has an election to win, too. And besides, the federal troops are all in Iraq.
McClintock has the Constitution and the will of the people on his side. The era of judicial tyranny can end here and now.