Arnold Unplugged - It's hasta la vista to $9 billion if
 the Governator is selected
  Friday, October 3, 2003 
 http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0

 It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that
 should raise an eyebrow.  According to a series of memoranda our office
 obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just
 two years ago that's the real scandal.

 The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the
 Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with
 Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay.  Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was
 convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

 Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this
 reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the
 corporate con men.  It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the 
hush-hush
 encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make 
Enron
 and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in
 illicit profits they carried off.

 Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear.  The biggest single threat to
 Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under
 California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices 
Act." 
 This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power 
companies
 return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas 
customers.

 It takes real cojones to bring such a suit.  Who's the plaintiff taking on the 
bad guys? 
 Cruz Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor and reluctant leading candidate against 
Schwarzenegger.

 Now follow the action.  One month after Cruz brings suit, Enron's Lay calls an
 emergency secret meeting in L.A. of his political buck-buddies, including 
Arnold. 
 Their plan, to undercut Davis (according to Enron memos) and "solve" the 
energy crisis
 -- that is, make the Bustamante legal threat go away.

 How can that be done?  Follow the trail with me.

 While Bustamante's kicking Enron butt in court, the Davis Administration is
 simultaneously demanding that George Bush's energy regulators order the $9 
billion refund. 
 Don't hold your breath:  Bush's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is headed 
by
 a guy proposed by · Ken Lay.

 But Bush's boys on the commission have a problem.  The evidence against the
 electricity barons is rock solid:  fraudulent reporting of sales transactions,
 megawatt "laundering," fake power delivery scheduling and straight out 
conspiracy
 (including meetings in hotel rooms).

 So the Bush commissioners cook up a terrific scheme:  charge the companies
 with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they
 have to pay only two cents on each dollar they filched.

 Problem:  the slap-on-the-wrist refunds won't sail if the Governor of 
California
 won't play along.  Solution:  Re-call the Governor.

 New Problem:  the guy most likely to replace Davis is not Mr. Musclehead, but
 Cruz Bustamante,  even a bigger threat to the power companies than Davis. 
 Solution:  smear Cruz  because -- heaven forbid! -- he took donations from
 Injuns (instead of Ken Lay).

 The pay-off?  Once Arnold is Governor, he blesses the sweetheart settlements 
with
 the power companies.  When that happens, Bustamante's court cases are probably 
lost. 
 There aren't many judges who will let a case go to trial to protect a state if 
that a
 governor has already allowed the matter to be "settled" by a regulatory agency.

 So think about this.  The state of California is in the hole by $8 billion for
 the coming year.  That's chump change next to the $8 TRILLION in deficits and
 surplus losses planned and incurred by George Bush.  Nevertheless, the
 $8 billion deficit is the hanging rope California's right wing is using
 to lynch Governor Davis.

 Yet only Davis and Bustamante are taking direct against to get back the $9 
billion
 that was vacuumed out of the state by Enron, Reliant, Dynegy, Williams Company 
and
 the other Texas bandits who squeezed the state by the bulbs.

 But if Arnold is selected, it's 'hasta la vista' to the $9 billion.  When the
 electricity emperors whistle, Arnold comes -- to the Peninsula Hotel or the
 Governor's mansion.  The he-man turns pussycat and curls up in their lap.

 I asked Mr. Muscle's PR people to comment on the new Enron memos -- and his 
strange
 silence on Bustamante's suit or Davis' petition.  But Arnold was too busy 
shaving off
 his Hitlerian mustache to respond.

 The Enron memos were discovered by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer 
Rights,
 Los Angeles,  www.ConsumerWatchdog.org  http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org  





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