California in the Red

Bogh Notes sacramento | 05/06/02 | Russ Bogh

[Robert357]

Thanks for your kind words, but you tumbled to this and to the warrants well before I figured those two items out.

Today I have written to four newspaper reports/columnists some in Washington State and some in California. George Skelton of the LA Times had an article (the article) today on Ernon and the G W Bush/Cheney connection. I sent him a pointed email on what I saw as the real story and real facts and he sent back the following.

Mr. XXXXX,
I guess you're referring to the CalISO when it was
controlled by special interests--the power industry--and
before Davis, in effect, seized it.
By the way, I am not an investigative reporter. The Times
does have investigative reporters. I'm a columnist writing
about state government and politics. Sometimes Democrats
like what I write. Sometimes Republicans like what I write.
Whatever,
George Skelton

I sent him a letter quoting segments of a Cal ISO board meeting of March 24th just before the July 3rd incident that showed how they were doing a number of major policies that Gov Davis had requested. Maybe he can be enlightened. Somebody has to try.

Even though it is a dispicable approach, I remember when during the Clinton impeachment all the democratic talking heads said everyone cheats on their wife, its no big deal trying to divert attension from the purjury charges, it had a big effect. Many times the democrats come out with the everybody does it defense. Should republicans point out that according to documents Cal ISO, Reliant, Dynegy, Enron, PowerEx, Puget Sound Energy, LADWP, (i.e. everybody) was gaming the system? I don't think so, but that is an option. I would rather state that the Cal ISO should have been above these kinds of actions.

[goldstategop]

Nope. The voters want more handouts and more goodies as long as they don't have to pay higher taxes for them. A state budget deficit be damned.

[snopercod]

Whatever? How childish. I guess that's the response one would expect from the LA Times.

Actually, his response is an example of polylogism [many kinds of logic], a construct invented by the communists of the last century. What you hear is, "That may be true for you, but it's not for me". "Proletariat Logic is different than Bourgoise Logic", etc... What it means is "I refuse to acknowledge the truth of the matter, regardless of the facts."

Speaking of facts,

• We know that Davis took "at least" $117,000 in from Enron for his campaign.
• We know that Enron only supplied 4% of California's electricity at the peak of the crisis (this from Davis's office).
• We know that Davis has turned a $13 billion surplus into a $20 billion defecit.
• We know that Davis is violating Article I, Section 16 of the California Constitution
• We know that the democRAT legislature still grants Davis "emergency powers".

These last two bother me. If Davis is screwing up so badly and using the California Constitution for toilet paper, why is the legislature continuing to grant him unprecedented powers?

[okie01]

"Good analysis, but in Kali's case, I think cutting regulations is more important than cutting taxes."

I'm not suggesting Simon try to cut Kali's cap gains tax. Quite the contrary. Instead, he should push Bush and (hopefully) a GOP Congress to cut the national cap gains tax.

Kali thereby reaping the benefit...

[heleny]

The blue/red counties map has the incorrect color for Ventura County, CA, which voted for Bush. It should be red.

Ventura 2000 Presidential Election results

Ventura County is between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, both of which voted for Gore, on the horizontal coast of CA, with these three counties surrounded by Bush supporting counties. Starting from the south, Ventura is the fourth coastal county after San Diego, Orange, and LA counties, and is about 1/4 of the way up from the southern end of the state.