This year, he's on the right track, and he's trying to chart a course for California proposing investments that will control traffic, reduce pollution and build more schools. That's good, basic stuff. |
Tonight the voters decided it was time for someone else to serve. |
utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996. |
We are entitled as a matter of law to some form of price relief, |
We believe there is a credible threat that there will be an effort made between November 2nd and November 7th to destroy one of those bridges. |
We can buy it in the five to the five and a half cent range, ... That will stabilize the energy market, allow utilities to have some breathing room to pay off their creditors, and we will do all of this without raising rates to California customers. |
We have National Guard there. We have Highway Patrol there. We're working with the Coast Guard -- they have increased their presence, ... So we believe it is perfectly safe. |
We made progress, particularly on issues of long-term contracting, to bring down the rates and ensure reliable power. |
We need an opportunity for the markets to stabilize so that consumers in our states don't have to bear the disproportional burden of rising natural gas prices or undue profiteering, |
We need help from Washington today to reduce the extraordinary prices for power we are paying, ... I'm taking care of the rest of it. ... But price, under the law we passed in 1996, is exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve and they've dropped the ball big time. |
We need to talk, then. |
We will never forget the people who stood up to Mother Nature's fury. They are standing up to the worst of Mother Nature. |
We're not getting into strategy, |
Whatever is done has to be done in a fair and objective manner, |
When Republicans can't win elections fair and square, they resort to this, |