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Politics : Arnold for Governor! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richardred who wrote (16)	8/7/2003 5:48:12 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 773

Deregulation precipitated the mess in which Davis is now mired. It was not he but his predecessor, the cuckolded Pete Wilson, who pulled the plug on CA prosperity and opened the door that ushered in the 20th Century's worst robber barons, Enron. cnn.com What caused the electricity crisis? Gov. Gray Davis blames deregulation, which was pushed by his predecessor. But former Gov. Pete Wilson told CNN that deregulation "was a gutsy move" that usher in the state's economic boom. In 1996, Wilson not only introduced the idea of deregulation, but he was also credited with getting the state legislature to unanimously approve it. "I'll take ... full credit for having had the guts to push for deregulation," he told CNN. "We were suffering some of the highest power costs in the nation, and I was concerned with rebuilding our economy," Wilson said.