Schwarzenegger Asked To Explain Ken Lay Meeting

Hopefully this story gains some steam! Yes Ah-nold ... what about your good buddy, Kenny-Boy? Eh?

http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2554124/detail.html

WASHINGTON -- California governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger must explain the substance of his private May 2001 meeting with Enron chief Ken Lay, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights wrote in a letter to Schwarzenegger Tuesday.

FTCR, which was the state's most vocal critic of Governor Gray Davis' handling of the energy crisis, said that if the governor-elect did not recount the meeting by the time of his inauguration, the group would ask state lawmakers to open an investigation to uncover the substance of the meeting, including any information that might further the state's efforts to return billions of dollars that taxpayers and consumers overpaid for electricity during the energy crisis.

"A meeting with the biggest corporate crook in recent memory, while he and his firm were in the midst of ripping off the state, should not be taken lightly," FTCR wrote. "As Governor, you must explain to Californians what you were doing at that meeting, what information Ken Lay shared with you and how the meeting has influenced your thinking on energy issues."

Don't suppose they could have publicized the letter when it may have done some good.

arnie's tenure isn't going to be all that sunshine and roses.

Ah-null hasn't been sworn in yet.

... be lost in all of grope stories. Anyway, better published than trash-binned.

...once he's explained all the grope stories, as he said we would after the election.

Democrats are the majority in the legislature, we can take Arnold down if he doesn't come clean.

The question is whether our Dems have what it takes to stand up to Arnold.

If they don't fight, he will destory them all and do whatever he wants.

I can dream.

igation.

the wait? It's a helluva lot more important than his boorish behavior toward women - and before I get flamed to pieces - I was in the studios for many years. Yes, you really could lose your job if you crossed the wrong person. I turned down shows with known a**h***s - maybe I didn't make quite as much money as others. But I did manage to maintain ownership over my own ass. I feel for the women in question - but I know from experience that people only take from you what you allow them to take - including your dignity.

edited for bad keyboarding.

It is beyond me why everybody was wasting their time with the groping allegations, when a much more important question to the people of California was the connections that Ahnold had with Ken Lay and the Bushes. I wrote letters to the editors of the LA Times and the SF Chronicle to ask them why the hell are they portraying Ahnold as an outsider who is impervious to political games, when he had a secret meeting with Ken Lay in the midst of the energy crisis (and one suspects to talk about running for governor), and his administration is full of people from Pete Wilson's staff, and people with connections to the White House. Why, why, why weren't these questions asked before the elections?

and early eighties. The gropinator stories just made me yawn. But meetings with Ken Lay? That's serious. And he's already talking about deregulation and, oh, by the way, the front page story in the SF paper this morning was that our natural gas prices are expected to triple this winter. This guy was installed to help W & his oil company cronies continue to pick our pockets. All that remains to be seen is how much they get out of us before we cry foul.

Maybe we even worked together. I started below the line in the late 70's. Local 44.

Glad you and Sun see through this malarkey. I just got a bill today from the gas co. for a tad over 30 bucks...haven't had the heat on in months...so I think the begining of the increase is upon us. Unless they're charging us for *standby*. :)

they have a majority, right? he's so hosed...

:bounce:

"Old news" just like the sexual battery's

The media sat on this until he was elected.
This is old news. Our local ABC affiliate is airing this right now.

the story was out there. Maybe not on every front page - as it ought to have been - but one of the problems I have with the general public is that they want to be spoon fed. Dammit...you have to go out and forage! (not mad at ya - just ranting!) If I had my way, every citizen would be required to prove the possession of the powers of cognitive thinking before they're allowed into a voting booth!

What a bunch of fuckwads, this sounds like one of those conservative cover stories. Oh well, FOTA asked him about it back in October and he responded blah, blah, blah. Olds news, excuse us while we rip off California

:mad:

well if something can come of this and if we can still keep the heat on him regarding his sexual assaults towards women (whatever happened to that?) maybe we can get him recalled yet.

...from Lay and his followers after Jeb bought 300 million dollars worth of worthless Enron stock for the State Pension Fund.

bush family way! they've been doing it since world war II.

rocknation

Thank you for the laff! I needed that! LOL!! :D

:dem: :kick:

I heard he dressed provocatively and made the first move himself.

tell junior your gonna change parties and reveal all about Kenneth Lay who is a direct ancestor to California problems.

Give junior "Kenny Boy's" head on a silver platter.

Tell the truth...expose it all for us...if you are going to be a true leader like you said you would...speak out...expose the crooks...if not...you are no better than the rest of them...

this information PRIOR to the election?

and the whore media sure won't be nagging him.

do you honestly believe that Arnold (an "admirer" of Adolf) is going to be skewered for simply "meeting" with Ken Lay?

And, besides, the California voters (the dittoheads who actually voted for Arnold) don't know...or, even give a s*** one way or the other on this issue! All they care about is that they have a celebrity / movie star governor to 'run things'. 'Nuff said.

:evilfrown:

... electricity bills go back up. Probably still alot of money left in California to transfer to Texas!

That's why we're in the fix we're in!

:evilfrown:

:kick:

the election, I did read he mentioned that the costs of
'litigation' in recovering the money was costing the
state too much and could be settled for
about $3B instead of $9B .. hmmm . rings a bell

I think there should be an internet law that every browser is set to http://news.google.com/">NEWS for the homepage.

Just my one little empirical demand. :party:
(it's a start...)

Apparently Magic Johnson was invited to the meetings also. As was Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks, Sherry Lansing of Paramount, Michael Eisner of Disney, Fred Anderson of Apple, Bob Daly of the LA Dodgers, etc. Anyone who was a major business figure in L.A. and knew Mayor Riordan was invited.

were all on the invite list because they were all at least considering running for governor against Davis. The business people were probably invited for cover and to hide the real purpose of the meeting - to bring all of the possible candidates on board the "drop the lawsuit" train.

When Riordan faltered in the primary and Simon lost in the general election it became Ahnold's turn to save Enron's ass from Bustamante's lawsuit.

He'll brush off the question with a joke - probably a take-off on Kenny Who? - and the press will look the other way.

By the way on Sunday the editor of the LA Times wrote a lengthy explanation of how and why the groping story made it to the front page. If only they had gone after the slimy bastard on the Kenny Boy issue and hammered him on the state potentially losing 9 billion at least some people might have paid attention - though I doubt it. There are a lot of morons in California, and I say that as a lifelong, extremely disgusted Californian.

With dumbshit monkeyboy in the WH and apeman in Sacramento, I feel like I'm living in an episode of the Twilight Zone.

nt

that when asked about the allegations of groping and misconduct he says "That's Old News" and then walks off...if he does the same when/if he's asked about this...in my mind he's hiding something...

And does anyone think it funny that when * met with Davis...* didn't do a thing for him...wouldn't help him at all...watch...I bet * bails Ahhhhhnold out and makes him look like a hero...

Lets see what happens with this.