Linking Schwarzenegger to Ken Lay During California Energy Scam

[David Zephyr]

It's high time that the new Governor of California be pressed to answer for his clandestine meeting with Ken Lay at the very time that this corporate crook was scamming our state for billions of dollars! The same Enron crooks who brought down Governor Davis and who paid for radio ads accusing Davis of causing the brownouts during the "energy crisis" here.

And it's important that these two stories become inseparable and forever linked together. I urge anyone living in the Golden State and those with friends in California to please send your friends, colleagues, family and neighbors --- and Republicans, too --- these two stories that belong together:

STORY ONE (With Link Provided Below):

"Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard – on audiotapes obtained by CBS News – gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.

"'He just f---s California,' says one Enron employee. 'He steals money from California to the tune of about a million.'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml

STORY TWO (With Link Provided Below):

Schwarzenegger's meeting with Ken Lay in the middle of the energy scam (which he can't "recall" now):

"Santa Monica, CA -- Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis. View the e-mails. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the information that was presented and discussed. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California for two consecutive days; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting.

"'You don't meet with America's most well-known corporate crook in the middle of California's biggest financial disaster and not remember,' said FTCR's senior consumer advocate Douglas Heller. 'Mr. Schwarzenegger should come clean about what happened at that meeting and if he shares Ken Lay's views on energy regulation.'"

"The documents provide a list of invitees to the hastily arranged meeting and a list of those who actually attended. Only eleven of the 45 invitees attended, including Schwarzenegger. The meeting was meant to be an opportunity to gain business community support for Enron's "comprehensive solution" to the energy crisis. In one e-mail, Enron's VP of Public Relations wrote: "We'd like to position this meeting as an insider's conversation of what's going on with the energy situation. This meeting should be for principals only."

Full Story:

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/utilities/pr/pr003708.php3

[FleshCartoon]

1. Bravo!

I absolutely agree.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. I agree.

Greg Palast? He's the only journalist around who has the guts to investigate this. Maybe this info should be sent to Dem Senators?

[SoCalDem]

3. They "know"...Most just want to play nice and get re-elected

This was what I was SCREAMING about during the recall..

They were planning on TAKING the governorship in 02, but dammit, Davis won.. Ahhhnold was included as an "in case" they needed a recall.. They pretty well knew that if Simon lost, HE would not be a viable recall candidate,. I think they knew even then, that Simon was a weak candidate.. Ahhhhnold was "Plan B"..

Why ELSE would moviestarstrongman be invited to sit in on an energy meeting..??

The recall "election" made the bad old lawsuit go away for pennies on the dollar..

In politics...nothing happens by "accident"..