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Fair on recall { August 14 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR081403.htm http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR081403.htm August 14, 2003 * Schwarzenegger and Ken Lay Meeting * Perspectives on Recall DOUG HELLER, doug@consumerwatchdog.org, www.consumerwatchdog.org CARMEN BALBER, carmen@consumerwatchdog.org Consumer advocates with the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Heller and Balber said today: "The California energy crisis was the culmination of a decade-long push to remove consumer protections and regulatory oversight of California's electric power system... Leading the charge was Ken Lay, the former CEO and Chairman of Enron, whose close ties with the Bush family were supplemented by campaign contributions both in Washington and across the country, notably including more than $100,000 to California Governor Gray Davis. It was, of course, no surprise that Governor Davis failed to meaningfully take on the power industry's manipulation of the California energy market during the crisis, opting instead to sign overpriced power contracts and force consumers and taxpayers to pay for the miserable failure of deregulation. Although Californians lambasted Davis for his unwillingness to stand up to the power companies, people also knew that Ken Lay and his ilk were to blame for the billions of dollars that were being siphoned out of the state on a monthly basis. "In order to counter the virtual public consensus that deregulation ought to be dumped, Ken Lay, during the spring of 2001, began a series of high-powered meetings to salvage the deteriorating argument for his energy scheme.... He met privately with Vice President Cheney in the days leading up to the administration's publication of what became an extremely Enron-friendly National Energy Plan. Successful on the national front as a result of his longstanding relationship with key Republicans, Lay hoped to regain his footing in California by forging ties with prominent Republicans in the state. In May of 2001, Lay convened a private meeting with junk bond king Michael Milken, Los Angeles' then-Mayor Richard Riordan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, at which Lay reportedly presented his vision of solving the state's energy deregulation crisis by, absurd as it sounds, expanding deregulation. The meeting, about which the public still knows very little, may become a major issue now that Schwarzenegger is no longer just a Republican movie star..." JOHN BONIFAZ, JBonifaz@nvri.org, www.nvri.org Executive director of the National Voting Rights Institute, which recently helped win a ban on soft money contributions in Alaska, Bonifaz said today: "We should be very concerned that someone with millions of dollars can put something on the ballot based largely on that fortune. There should be a contribution limit in such recall efforts. This does not mean however that we should eliminate the concept of a recall. Methods of popular involvement in politics can be good, they just shouldn't be yet another opportunity for money setting the agenda." GREG MITCHELL, epic1934@aol.com Author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's EPIC Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics, Mitchell said today: "In 1934 you had Upton Sinclair, a radical, run and win the Democratic party nomination in California. This prompted the big studio bosses to get behind the Republican opponent and in effect invent the modern political campaign, with publicists, spindoctors and misleading ads. You saw use of newsreels, the pre-cursor to our TV ads." Mitchell also wrote the book Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs Helen Gahagan Douglas, about Nixon's red-baiting of his opponent, a former actress, during the 1950 campaign for a California seat in the U.S. Senate. For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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