-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24607,00.html Repubs Watch as California's Dem 'Titanic' Sinks in Energy Crisis Saturday, May 12, 2001 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Republicans are standing back in California as Democratic leaders sweat out the power crisis. State GOP lawmakers have repeatedly voted against Democratic Gov. Gray Davis' energy proposals, and neither President Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney has visited the nation's largest state since taking office. Even Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones, who has pledged to focus on energy in his campaign to unseat Davis next year, has not held a single public event since announcing his candidacy in March. ``We intend to let Davis do as much as he can to unravel himself,'' said Shawn Steel, chairman of the California Republican Party. ``The last thing anybody would want to do is step onto the Titanic when it is sinking,'' said California GOP strategist Mike Madrid. It's a different story in Washington. GOP lawmakers are expressing concern that they could become the victims of a backlash by voters angry about rising gasoline prices and sporadic blackouts. Some Republican lawmakers have begun urging the White House to address short-term energy concerns as well as longer-term problems when the president unveils his energy plan next week. And Bush, speaking at a news conference Friday, followed that advice. ``The quickest way to help people with energy prices is tax relief,'' he said. In California, where Democrats control the Legislature and governor's office, some Republicans worry the Bush administration's long-term energy strategy offers little relief for California as it heads into what is expected to be a long, hot summer of blackouts and rising electricity rates. Chris Arterton, dean of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University, said Republicans will do as little possible to help save California and Davis - a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. ``If you can keep him dangling on the horns of that dilemma that he is on as long as possible, it weakens him,'' Arterton said. The Republicans are not the only ones playing politics. For their part, the Democrats have pointed out at every turn that it was Republican Gov. Pete Wilson who signed into law the 1996 electricity deregulation plan that led in part to the current crisis. This week, all but one of the 44 Republican state legislators voted against a $13.4 billion bond measure to buy electricity on behalf of California's cash-strapped utilities. The measure passed, but not by the two-thirds majority it needed to go into effect immediately, leaving Davis and Democrats plucking from the budgets of other state programs to pay for power until at least August. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
