Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney On CA Energy Plan

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00003.htm

Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney; Aides Refuse to Identify People Who Helped Governor Draft Calif. Energy Plan

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In a page torn straight out of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney’s playbook on government secrecy, Schwarzenegger’s aides have refused to disclose the names of individuals who helped the governor draft a plan to retool California’s energy market, a plan that appears to benefit the very same special interests Schwarzenegger said he wasn’t handcuffed to during his campaign. Moreover, for the energy proposal to work, it relies heavily on piecemeal components of the state’s old deregulation law that sparked the energy crisis and wreaked havoc on consumers three years ago.

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Now it appears that Schwarzenegger’s staff is also operating under a veil of secrecy. On April 27, Schwarzenegger’s aides released a letter the governor wrote to Michael Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, in which Schwarzenegger called for the state to return to a fully competitive, deregulated electricity market. A copy of the letter can be found at:
http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/PUC_Letter.pdf

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But officials with three of California’s most prominent consumer rights groups, all of whom spent the past four years at the forefront debate surrounding the state’s energy issues, said they never met with Gov. Schwarzenegger or anyone from his staff to discuss the governor’s future electricity plans for the state.

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“I suspect that Schwarzenegger is doing what politicians do,” Heller said. “Get advice from the donors and interests that support him and don’t tell anyone about it. The fallout is that he is putting forward an agenda to force small business and consumers to pay high interest rates and setting the stage for the next set of blackouts and energy company gouging.”

By late Friday, Carbaugh was unable to round up a list of names of the people who met with Gov. Schwarzenegger and helped him draft his energy plan because the governor’s advisers who are privy to the information had already left for the weekend.
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like Cheney and Rove aren't whispering in Arnold's ear 24/7

Californians will continue to be screwed, as Arnold fondles them with spin