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To: lewislynn
My we are touchy this morning.

While I think that Duke, Enron and many other power suppliers may have been guilty of a lot of crimes, I don't think that the ones that most Democrats are trying to hang them with are the ones that their CEO's should go to jail for.

Specifically, when you compare the price fixing/gounging charges to the accouting practice/inflating sales/earnings to fluff up stock price; several of the companies seem have a lot more evidence of trying to dress their books than to rape California ratepayers.

In fact if Duke is still owed $225 million from the ISO, is it not California that has raped the power companies? I know for a fact that BPA is still owed money by California. I suspect that there are other power companies that are owed money by California. In such a case , who is the bigger crook, a quasi-state government agency that doesn't pay its bills or companies that try to get their money by holding future services hostage to past lack of payment? I suspect that very few who participated in the California power market have totally clean hands, but I also suspect that the hands of the ISO are especially dirty. And yet, I hear no continuing cry from you or others as to holding those at the ISO and those who appointed the leaders of the ISO accountable for any of the problems associated with the Calfironia power crisis.

6 posted on 07/14/2002 11:11:23 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: Robert357
"My we are touchy this morning."

You would be, too, if you were Goober Davis' mother.

Psssssst! "lewislynn" is her screen name...

15 posted on 07/14/2002 6:21:38 PM PDT by okie01
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