Arianna to give press conference tomorrow attacking Arh-nuld

[CatWoman]

and his Enron connections:

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Arianna Huffington called this morning to say that -- inspired by Monday's item in this space -- she will hold a press conference tomorrow outside the Beverly Hills Hotel. She'll be talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger's secret meeting at the hotel with Kenneth Lay in May 2001 during the California "energy crisis."

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She also forwarded a draft of her attack on Arnold's pals in the Bush administration for "declaring war" on California. Although it is still in draft form, I doubt she'll mind if I preview a few grafs:


"Let's start with the energy crisis: the White House repeatedly rejected the state's pleas for help during the crisis, preferring to side with their big buck backers in the energy industry -- especially Enron's 'Kenny Boy' Lay. Dick Cheney even went so far as to blame California for causing its own problems -- when, as we now know, it was actually crooked energy companies that were manufacturing the crisis and costing us billions ...

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"And it wasn't Gray Davis who held secret meetings with Enron executives. Or who appointed energy company-friendly members to the FERC -- members who looked the other way while Enron and the other energy swindlers fleeced California, who refused to impose wholesale energy price caps that would have saved California taxpayers from picking up the tab for the thievery, and who forced California to honor $12 billion in long-term energy contracts -- even after it was proven that the corporate energy crooks had scammed the system. No, that wasn't Davis -- it was Dick Cheney and George Bush."


http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/08/13/arianna/index.html