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Posted on 12/31/2002 6:22:10 PM PST by snopercod
Loretta Lynch, often at odds with her boss over regulation of the California electricity industry, has been replaced as head of the state's Public Utilities Commission by Gov. Gray Davis.
"It has been a challenge to guide the agency through such turbulent times," Ms. Lynch says in a prepared statement. "It is the governor's prerogative to choose the president of the PUC. But I will continue to fight for consumers and for California's families and businesses as a commissioner. I am proud of my record as president of the commission in defending consumers and the public interest."
Her term on the PUC ends in January 2005.
Commissioner Michael Peevey was reappointed by Mr. Davis and designated president of the commission.
Mr. Peevey’s appointment was not welcomed by a consumer group vocal about the state’s energy crisis.
“Governor Davis is cloning himself at the PUC to make sure he can get whatever he wants out of that agency,” says Douglas Heller, senior consumer advocate at the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights of Santa Monica.
“The Governor tries to keep his distance whenever the PUC raises rates, yet he continues to appoint people from his inner circle. There is no distance between the Governor and the PUC,” Mr. Heller says.
In a related action, Susan Kennedy was named Tuesday as a member of the California Public Utilities Commission. If confirmed by the state Senate, Ms. Kennedy will succeed retiring Henry Duque. Her term would end in 2009.
Ms. Kennedy's appointment marks the first time every one of the five PUC commissioners has been appointed by Mr. Davis.
Ms. Kennedy, 42, of Marin County, earlier was named by Mr. Davis to serve his cabinet secretary, a position she has held since January 1999. From 1995 to 1998, she served as communications director to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Prior to that, she was executive director for the California Democratic Party from 1991 to 1994, and before that executive director of the California Abortion Rights Action League.
The PUC regulates privately owned telecommunications, electric, natural gas, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies. Commissioners receive a salary of $114,191.
Wow, I sure feel better now.
Loretta Lynch was horrible, but at least she disagreed with Davis once in awhile. I have a feeling that Peevy won't.
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Well by gum, CA has every right to an abortion and it certainly got one with it's crummy Demonicrat Governor and his putrid PUC sichophant/puppets!!!
I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR, cause I doubt CA will have one for the next four!!! (you lucky devils)
Dang! I miss Ronnie Reagan!!!
Okay, so we know she's a disgusting cow.
No pictures, please.
I seem to recall that all recent PUC decisions have been 3-2 votes. I wonder if the two naysayers are the ones who just got replaced.
Here is a little history of Bryson, that a lot of people may not know. He was appointed president of the CPUC by Moonbeam and Davis way back before he became CEO of Edison. (John Bryson: Green At Heart, Greener In The Wallet ) ------------------------------------------------------------
That puts Bryson on our list of the worst-valued chief executives on Forbes.com's First Annual CEO Value Survey. Bryson took home $4 million for every percentage point Edison shrank (measured by average of annualized growth in sales, income, and share price over 5 years).
While that's a comparatively modest sum of money, and it is still well under the $38 million average in five-year compensation for executives listed on the survey, it's quite an improvement from his pay as the co-founder of nonprofit environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council. Rick Cavanagh, the current energy program director at NRDF, says Bryson was "just scraping by" at the organization.
"He probably made a fraction of his current salary while he was here," Cavanagh says. "I'd guess that he was probably the lowest-paid member of his class at Yale Law School for the five years after he graduated." But Bryson made up for lost time.
A Stanford grad with a Yale Law School Juris Doctorate, Bryson was a public servant for many years before joining Edison (nyse: EIX - news - people) in 1984. His environmental interests play a strong role in his past: Bryson was president of the California Public Utilities Commission from 1979 to 1982; before that he served as chairman of the California Water Resources Control Board; fresh out of school, he co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970.
For over 3 decades these Enviralists have controlling our energy policy, food policy and other policies. One of their scams was the Alar scare that damaged Apple growers across the nation.
On another reply I will post where massive amounts of their money comes from.
NRDC controlled by elite left wing facists to enhance elite left wing fascists in the name of the environment.
Maybe Carry Okie can share some of his knowledge of the NRDC.
Peevey's appointment by California Governor Gray Davis, if confirmed by the state's senate, pushes out Chairwoman Loretta Lynch, who had clashed with Davis over how to resolve California's energy crisis two years ago, and had the commission sue generators and gas companies, accusing them of gouging.
This is so clintonian. Davis is the one who was calling the shots all along. That's why he packed the CPUC with "his people". Now, when his delerious schemes have all failed, he is defenestrating (tossing out the window) the loyal hack whom he ordered to carry out his plans.
Lynch should have learned when she worked for clinton...
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