Cob: Announcement on the California Power Controversy

[Ned Allison]

Attached is an announcement of interest to those involved in the California 
Power Controversy.



CITIZENS ENERGY LOBBY TO MEET IN SACRAMENTO AT NOON WED FEB 14 ON WEST
STEPS OF CAPITOL

At noon, Feb. 14th (Valentine's Day) there will be a Citizens Lobby meeting
on the west steps of the
Capitol to lobby the legislature. We will have a Citizens Lobby van with
Citizens Lobby sashes. Program will be
to support the following bills

YES to SB23X-- by Senator Nel Soto makes forming a MUD easier;
Yes to SB33X-- by Senator John Burton - to create a California Power Authority
                to take over the electric transmission system;
Yes to SB5x -- by Senator Byron Sher - funds for conservation and renewables
                like photovoltaics;
YES to      -- Carole Migden's Community Choice bill. (No bill number 
assigned yet).

But NO NO NO to AB18X; by "Bailout Bob" Hertzberg, Speaker of the Assembly.

TO FIND OUT MORE about the CITIZENS LOBBY, call

Barbara George, Berkeley, Women's Energy Matters, 510-528-5104, bgwem at igc.org
Global Exchange, San Francisco, at 415-255-7296, or medea at globalexchange.org.

Check out as well www.powertothepeople.org where information will soon be
posted, including info. regarding the utility and generator contributions to
114 of 119 Assembly members and State Senators. Global Exchange and Women's
Energy Matters are demanding that members take all of these contributions
and donate them to consumer and environmental groups which are fighting for
people's right to reasonably-priced energy.

DEFEND PRESIDENT LYNCH OF THE CPUC: Republican lobbyist Sal Russo has
authored THE CORRUPTION OF POWER, a slimy hit piece against President
Loretta Lynch which blames her for NOT raising rates and saving PG&E
and Edison and which attempts to tie her to the Whitewater scandal. The
Republicans and the deregulation right wing of the Democratic Party are
targeting Loretta Lynch because she has had the gall to insist on an honest
accounting of what happened to the deregulation bailout funds which went to
PG&E Co. and Southern California Edison. The CPUC study, which came out two
weeks ago, showed that both PG&E Corp. and Edison International,
holding companies which own the regulated utilities, have each pocketed $5
billion which they have invested in energy ventures everywhere but California.
Lynch is the first CPUC president in over a decade to defend consumer
and environmental and labor rights.

NO BAILOUTS!
SOLAR ENERGY NOW!
MAKE CONSERVATION OUR CHIEF PRIORITYI

Dan & Loma Enero Berman at 530-757-6609. Coalition for Local Power, Davis, 
California
(Dan Berman is the author of WHO OWNS THE SUN?) For more info. on public power
check out www.dmud.org

P.S. On Monday, Feb 12 at 2pm the SF Board of Supervisors will vote to put
the SFMUD proposition on the November ballot. Be there to give support and
to celebrate. And congratulations to all the 250 of you who attended last
night's spirited Labor Party public power teach-in in San Francisco, featuring
SF Board of Supervisors Board President Tom Ammiano, Graham Brownstein of 
TURN,
Angela Alioto, former Board of Supes President, IBEW1245 member and PG&E 
worker
Robin David, Medea Benjamin, and Anthony Mazzocchi, lead organizer for the 
Labor Party.

SEE YOU ALL ON THE WEST STEPS OF THE CAPITOL, WEDNESDAY NOON, FEBRUARY 14.
HAPPY
VALENTINE'S DAY!