It was very obvious that Davis had made the step from your petty socialist Rat politician to the very dangerous Fascist. It was clear that to do business in Kali, you had to do one of two things:
1. Donate large sums of money to Davis to buy business like the Whoreacle scandal has shown us.
2. Even more dangerous, if you are wealthy you donate vast sums to Davis. Then, your businesses, like Burkle's, become the facist approved business. Then, Davis uses his power to get Cal Pers and the state to invest in your business. Then via legislation or back door deals make your business the Rat Poster Boy Business in your area of speciality/expertise. This is just plain old Fascism!
Then, your favorite Fascist company puts the wife of the Fascist Governor on your board for some incredible benefits. The CEO donates $600,000 to insure present and future businesses. Then, the Fascists in Charge, makes sure that no one can compete with you on an equal basis in California. Those threatening comments by Lockyer to power providers, were nothing but vile brown shirted fascist bully threats to any power company trying to do business in Kali. If those companies had given Davis and Lockyer, what they wanted, the companines would never had a problem.
Larry Lied nailed this troubling reality with his reply that included this remark:
If we don't stop this, government unions will own the Fortune 100 someday. That is the definition of economic fascism.
Right on Larry! Benito Davis has been hard at work as the prototype Fascist Poster Boy Governor with his criminal fascist AG, Lockyer, who will lock you up if you don't fall in line and donate big time to him, the Gov and the rats in power in Kaliland.
My guess is one reason Burkle went with Democrats was to solve labor problems. In the early 90s, I was in Vegas when Food $ Less employees were picketing because they wanted a union and he hired scabs. Mob guys like Vic Kamber,Sweeney Coia and Ickes were hanging around Vegas at that time.
Great insights, Grampa. Fascism or Socialism, it doesn't really matter which way it goes for the ruling elite. They just want the economy controlled by the "educated elite." They have already lined up the media, intellectuals and foundations. All the furor about "unfettered capitalism" will be solved in these bureaucrats dreams by government control of the economy...
I'm adding you to my financial issues bumplist, OK?