This guy thinks the same of us.


                        Criminal charges could follow evidence of price gouging

                        By Steve Geissinger
                        SACRAMENTO BUREAU

                        SACRAMENTO -- State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Wednesday his investigation of alleged
                        multibillion-dollar price gouging by power generators has laid the foundation for a successful civil
                        case that could win huge refunds.

                        "But the whole house hasn't been built," Lockyer said in an interview with ANG Newspapers.

                        The attorney general said the probe he expects to complete in the next eight weeks also may yet yield
                        criminal charges, which could result in power company officials being locked up "with my tattooed
                        dude."

                        Lockyer, a former East Bay legislator, rattled electricity suppliers earlier this week when he told the
                        Wall Street Journal: [b]"I would love to personally escort (Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth) Lay to an 8
                        x 10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" [/b]

                        Houston-based Enron, like other energy-trading firms, has denied wrongdoing in the California
                        market. It dismissed Lockyer's comment as not warranting a response butquietlyprotested to the
                        Davis administration. Other power companies have expressed outrage.

                        "I was trying to convey a message to ... the out-of-state energy generators," Lockyer said. "I decided
                        to make the point with the energy generators that they've got a serious fight on their hands."

                        The attorney general, however, conceded he has "felt guilty about it ever since because I'm a
                        prosecutor and I take pride in being careful about these sorts of accusations or claims."

                        "But I know it won't be in print unless I find some sort of colorful way to ... pump up the rhetoric,"
                        he said.

                        "We don't care if they're multi-millionaires. We don't care if they run big corporations. They're
                        buccaneers. They're ripping us off.

                        "Now, while we're still in the legal analysis of whether it's legal or illegal greed, it's clearly
                        immoral. There's no debate about that."

                        Lockyer said his investigators are scrutinizing tens of thousands of transactions and hundreds of
                        thousands of documents to determine the strength of the state's case.

                        "I think there is strong evidence that lays the foundation for a successful civil action, but the whole
                        house hasn't been built," Lockyer said.

                        A civil case could result in refunds that "disgorge the obscene profits," he said.

                        The California Independent System Operator, which manages the state's electric transmission grid,
                        estimates that power suppliers may have overcharged California by $6.8 billion since early last year.
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I'd like to see Lockyer in an 8x10 cell with a 400 Lb "boyfriend".

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Lawsuits worked well against tobacco, try it on Power Companies.

The deregulation laws allowed for those winfall profits, and also caused part of the power problem.

"I would love to personally escort (Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth) Lay to an 8
                       x 10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'"

Democratic-Socialist Elitest[:x*]

That goes along well with Cruz Bustamante's desire to use troops to take over the power plants and make them into state institutions.  That will generate more power....NOT.