Schwarzenegger Asked To Explain Ken Lay Meeting

[shamanstar]

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.

[jamesinca]

1. Welcome to the DU

This is a dupe, was posted yesterday. Please read the posting rules again about limiting the post to 4 paragraphs.

But otherwise welcome to the DU.

[shamanstar]

3. been here for awhile

thanks for the welcome anyways. im sorry- i did look for the post but couldnt find it and i forgot to edit the length.

[ewagner]

2. To my friends in California....

...you've been had.....BIG TIME!

[shamanstar]

5. we all know

except we didnt vote for him because we knew about this bull and we knew it would be stupid to put the 5th largest economy in the hands of a bumbling fool.

[VeniceBeat]

4. Will Kenny Boy Be at the Meeting on Secure Speakerphone?

Arnold, Bush and Karl Rove. Michael Milken? Pete Wilson?

Gotta get their story straight.....

[denverbill]

6. I didn't see the original, so I was glad to see this!

It's just too bad nobody paid attention to it 2 weeks ago.

[CBHagman]

7. I hope this bears fruit.

Schwarzenegger was shameless in his hiding from scrutiny (Reminds me of someone else who came to power on $ and name recognition...). Let the piper be paid now, please.

[niyad]

8. of course the biggest question is why this wasn't given more attention

before that buffoon was voted in-- very few people with whom I spoke had even heard about it.

but then, his sexual activities didn't seem to bother most people, either, so maybe they just didn't care.

[Rose Siding]

9. Dupe- here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=166532

[KoKo]

10. Don't see quite how they could make him divulge what happened in the

the meeting, though. If it was a private conversation and he wasn't in any official capacity. Ken Lay hasn't been indicted for anything, yet, so it wouldn't be like he was consorting with a criminal. Maybe they were discussing golf? Or donations to one of Maria's charities?

[donotpassgo]

11. "OLD NEWS" to Arnie. Not to Gullyfonians.

We want our 9 billion back.