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To: WaveSeeker who wrote (372249)	3/17/2003 1:15:07 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

Well, that seems to be a very parochial view. Davis is indeed partially responsible, albeit for lack of leadership in getting CA out of the mess. The origins of the mess are numerous. But, the real villans are the energy interests that exploited a bad situation. The bank was robbed because the previous manager opened the vault. When the new manager called the police, the police said, "You should have bought when we were selling tickets to the Policeman's Ball". The new manager was not smart enough to stop the thieves, or to convince those outside the bank that the police were corrupt.

To: WaveSeeker who wrote (372249)	3/17/2003 1:15:45 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Davis is not responsible for the energy crisis. No governor can stop an orchestrated, deregulated Enron-style assault on gasoline, power and natural gas at the same time with White House backing. The entire energy sector was behind this. It was huge. When in fact there were no real shortages at all. if there were, they were minor. My natural gas bills went up 500% suddenly, power bills more than doubled. And it happened so suddenly. The Governor has no power to stop them all and take over. Davis was blind-sided and gantg-banged by the Texas gangs. It was harsh. Especially when he couldn't even get answers and explanations as to what the real problem was. And ne help from either White House. Clinton was also stone-walled by Big Energy and Bush-Cheney were in cahoots. Davis innocently called in Ken Lay to help. Ha! That's like asking the dragon to help you put out a fire he started. Davis had no idea he was sitting in the room with the master crook himself. But there were many others, all working in collusion using the secret enron syetem opf cheating. Creating artificial energy trades when no real energy was going anywhere. Also plants were shut down and pipelines stopped on PURPOSE during the height of it. It was the perfect crime I guess, because so far they've gotten away with it. But I hope someday someone pays. perhaps in 2004 Bush will. The main bulk of these stories have not even come out in the press yet.