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Sac Bee ^ | 9/19/03 | Bee Editorial Staff

[NormsRevenge]

To figure out where debate truant Arnold Schwarzenegger stands, the best voters can do is tease out what he really meant in some softball television conversations with Oprah Winfrey and Larry King. Beware in particular of any candidate who seems lost on the topic of energy.

[NormsRevenge]

In the race to sound dimmest on energy, Schwarzenegger has come from behind and is now running neck-and-neck with Bustamante.

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And both their necks should be on the chopping block, imo.

[Cicero]

The SacBee, which helped Davis to cover up the deficit until shortly after the election, and which earlier helped Davis cover up the reasons for the energy shortage, has small right to comment on these matters now.

But they're more or less right in this instance. Schwartzenneger isn't all that much better than Bustamonte. And on the key issue which they never mention, abortion, Schwartzenneger would be a total disaster. Not only would he be just as bad for California, but he would bring back the Big Tent Republican fiasco that has divided and plagued the national party and weakened its electoral gains. We don't need any more Pete Wilsons alienating the base voters.

[tubebender]

Don't forget that PG&E was forced to sell it's power plants that were a source of cheap power. The buyers paid high prices for the plants and raised the rates to cover the amortization of those costs.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh, shush now! They're gonna re-fix (rebotch?) it, no matter how much more it costs the taxpayers. LOL

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[CheneyChick]

So we're down to cheesy editorials now? You're funny, Norm.

Cheers, CC :)

[VRWCmember]

Has Schwarzenegger forgotten the collapse of Enron, the wave of energy company bankruptcies that followed and the retreat of private capital from the power plant market? It's Wall Street, not California, that put a halt to construction.

The SacBee editorial staff has a collective cranio-rectal inversion if they think the screeching halt to power plant construction in California was due to anything other than California's onerous regulations.

[VRWCmember]

Oh, boy. Just what California needs: a governor who trusts the firms that manipulated the power markets in 2000 and stole billions from the state's consumers.

The SacBee blames the California energy problems on "firms' manipulation" of the power markets in 2000 rather than the idiotic California regulatory policy that restricted retail prices but not wholesale prices. (At least the "deregulators" in California recognized that if they capped the wholesale prices nobody would sell energy in California.)

[VRWCmember]

This SacBee condemnation of Arnold sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.

[NormsRevenge]

Cheese is good for you, or so say the California cows say. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

spin spin spin...

[Brian Allen]

<< Just what California needs: a governor who trusts the firms that manipulated the power markets in 2000 and stole billions from the state's consumers. >>

This piece's featured Beemorons lost me Right there.

The only ones who've "manipulated the power markets" and "stolen Billions from [California's] consumers" are California's bloody "DemocRATS" and their went-to-do-good-and-stayed-to-do-well Sacremento Democrepblicrat-political machine pals.

Like McJeffords, for example.

[TheAngryClam]

As opposed to the wonderful state-owned utilities like the LADWP, which also spent its time gouging the rest of the state.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Your post has inspired me to write my new tagline.

[Brian Allen]

<< Your post has inspired me .... >>

I have that problem, too, FRom time to time.

It's a bit of a worry.

HehHehHeh ....