Posted on 05/08/2002 12:16:17 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
...until I realized that you superimposed Governor "Lowbeam's" ugly mug onto his body! What a doofus!How did the great state of California end up with such a maroon as chief executive, and WHY is he still there???
I cannot WAIT for the NEW governor of California, BILL SIMON!!!
Also from www.grayOUT2002.comPowerful article. Well said. I hate the cynicism, but here it works. Thank GOD we have a sane and smart candidate in Bill Simon ... I hope that he continues to hammer at Davis. Even if the liberal media won't pick it up, he can get the message directly to the people.
Gray Davis is corrupt. He sells legislation for cash. He needs to be in prison, not the corner office.
Dump Davis!
Hey, someone more talented than me, can you get a picture up with Davis in a black and white prison uniform? Or the bright orange of California Correctionals?
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Rolling Blackouts Exist Only In Davis' Office
By Mr. KABC, Daily News 04/15/011. We've got the power. The call for new power plants is based on fuzzy math. According to the Independent System Operator, the peak demand for power in California was less than 46,000 megawatts on July 12, 2000. We have the system capacity for 55,500 megawatts and an additional 4,500 megawatts on contract. Six new plants are ready to go online before the year's end and 16 more plants are already under construction.
2. Play a shell game. Using the pay-yourself-first method of accounting, Southern California Edison insulated their shareholders by paying dividends, repurchasing stock and moving their cash reserves to Edison International (the parent company) after spending billions on an international power-plant buying spree.
3. Create a power shortage. Convince Californians they are power greedy but ignore the fact we are second in the nation of lowest power consumers per capita. Everyone supports conservation but the Gov. Gray Davis' plan for using less power at night will do nothing to satisfy peak daytime demand this summer.
4. Collude and price fix. Mission Energy, which is a subsidiary of Edison International, is one of the companies withholding power because SCE, the other Edison subsidiary on the regulated side didn't pay for the power Mission generates.
5. If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em! Wonder why Governor Low-Beam would opt to waste the state surplus buying power instead of forcing the parent company of SCE (Edison International) to help salvage its subsidiary? Perhaps the large campaign contributions (estimated by the Secretary of State Bill Jones at $1 million) the state utilities made to ensure his victory and augment his $27 million war chest is clouding his judgment.
6. Cheaper by the dozen. Gov. Davis could have purchased every power plant in the state for less money than has been wasted buying power for Pacific Gas & Electric and SCE in the first 90 days of the "crisis."
7. Let the fox guard the henhouse. Current and former Edison employees are acting as paid consultants to the governor behind closed doors.
8. Campaign the PUC to rubber-stamp rate increases. The governor's henpecked PUC board (which he claims to have no power over or consultation with) has already approved two massive rate increases since January. Watch for more to come.
9. Let there be light. Edison has nearly bankrupted 700 small power generators in the state by not paying them $1.5 billion. These generators provide us with 20 percent of our power needs. Since without pay, they have no incentive to generate power, there is less power to go around. However, SCE hasn't delayed in collecting from us.
10. The only rolling blackout is the one in the Governor's Office. Several Republican Assembly members are suing the governor to disclose his daily spending to buy power. Democratic State Treasurer Phil Angelides is pleading with the governor to "show me the numbers." Taxpayers have a right to know how much of our money is being spent every day to buy power. If Gov. Davis is suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, we need to get him some help.
That is so true. Hugh Hewitt is once again right on target.
What's important is that the governor hired people to be in charge of negotiating contracts who would find some way of messing up the business negotiations behind a lemonade stand!
The fact that they bought licenses for more people than the total number employed by the state is insane. Not to mention the fact that they bought the licenses and couldn't get them used in a year.
I normally like Oracle, which is an excellent product, but in this case the state was stupid, pure and simple. And that casts grave doubts on Davis' judgement, as does the power crisis and the current budget crisis.
I don't fault Oracle or Logicon for selling their software - the people negotiating for the state had an obligation to understand what was being sold, size it properly for the needs of the state, and behave accordingly. They obviously did none of these things.
The state buys billions of dollars worth of stuff every year. This is just a drop in the bucket, money-wise, but it's a strong indication that we're getting exceptionally poor value for money in what we buy.
And that's a real scandal, and Simon would be quite right to milk it for all its worth.
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