Posted on 07/23/2005 4:39:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - It's darn hot in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez agreed Saturday as temperatures climbed to triple digits.
There the Republican governor and Democratic speaker diverged in their weekly radio addresses, as the speaker criticized the governor for not doing enough to boost electricity supplies after two days of power-shortage warnings in Southern California. Nunez, of Los Angeles, evoked the rolling blackouts that gripped the state in 2000 and 2001, and criticized the governor for vetoing his bill last year that would have re-regulated California's electricity market.
The jousting came a day after a three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal removed Proposition 80 from November's special election ballot, though consumer advocates plan to appeal to the state Supreme Court. The initiative, similar to Nunez' bill, would have required that electric service providers be controlled by the Public Utilities Commission. But the court said the commission's powers can only be increased by a law such as the one Schwarzenegger vetoed.
"Our energy supplies are still limited and our energy costs are still too high, as our governor still has no vision to shape our energy future," Nunez complained in his radio broadcast. "Nothing the governor has done thus far has increased power generation or created a single new power plant."
Schwarzenegger spokesman Darrel Ng countered that "the governor's energy policy will provide California with reliable, affordable and cleaner energy. He believes that the way to do that is to provide regulatory certainty, so people will know what they're getting into when they build power plants ... People will invest in California."
Nunez devoted the balance of his radio address to advising residents how to conserve energy. Schwarzenegger used his address to warn that heat killed three Californians this week, and to give safety tips for avoiding heat-related illness.
The debate came as storms passing through Southern California brought flash flood and tornado warnings for Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and San Diego counties, according to the National Weather Service.
Given that the libs (ala Gray Davis, et al) spent this state into oblivion on horribly over-priced energy contracts, what is left? Is Arnie supposed to make Davis' debt disappear, make the contracts and their prices disappear, spend even MORE MONEY that we don't have.
If the libs who have run California into the ground, had one ounce of responsibility, our energy situation would never have happened. Send the bill to the libs -- not to Arnie -- he did not create this state's energy issues.
more nuke plants...stat!
Of course not but that's exactly what he's doing. In fact, as is now painfully obvious, Schwarzenegger is spending money we don't have at an even faster pace than Davis.
Californians were handed a chance at salvation when Davis was recalled. They elected instead to waste their vote on a thinly disguised liberal who has outdone his predecessor.
They elected instead to waste their vote on a thinly disguised liberal who has outdone his predecessor.
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Well the alternative to Arnie would have been a radical, La Raza Mexican activist who was more liberal than Davis -- not much of a choice was it.
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