Palast's latest - Arnold Unplugged

[dwckabal]

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0

This should be picked up be every news agency in the US!

It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scandal.

The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

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[fizzana]

1. Just got my e-mailed version.

We needed this a few weeks ago. I hope to god it's not too late.

[Octafish]

4. It WAS out a few weeks ago...

DU Friend fizzana. It's not that no one bothered to pick it up, the gatekeepers of that day said there were more important fish to fry, like Beniffer.

Published on Sunday, August 17, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis

by Jason Leopold

Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t talking. The Hollywood action film star and California’s GOP gubernatorial candidate in the state’s recall election has been unusually silent about his plans for running the Golden State. He hasn’t yet offered up a solution for the state’s $38 billion budget deficit, an issue that largely got more than one million people to sign a petition to recall Gov. Gray Davis.

More important, however, Schwarzenegger still won’t respond to questions about why he was at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills two years ago where he, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and junk bond king Michael Milken, met secretly with former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay who was touting a plan for solving the state’s energy crisis. Other luminaries who were invited but didn’t attend the May 24, 2001 meeting included former Los Angeles Laker Earvin “Magic” Johnson and supermarket magnate Ron Burkle.

While Schwarzenegger, Riordan and Milken listened to Lay’s pitch, Gov. Davis pleaded with President George Bush to enact much needed price controls on electricity sold in the state, which skyrocketed to more than $200 per megawatt-hour. Davis said that Texas-based energy companies were manipulating California’s power market, charging obscene prices for power and holding consumers hostage. Bush agreed to meet with Davis at the Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles on May 29, 2001, five days after Lay met with Schwarzenegger, to discuss the California power crisis.

At the meeting, Davis asked Bush for federal assistance, such as imposing federally mandated price caps, to rein in soaring energy prices. But Bush refused saying California legislators designed an electricity market that left too many regulatory restrictions in place and that’s what caused electricity prices in the state to skyrocket. It was up to the governor to fix the problem, Bush said. However, Bush’s response appears to be part of a coordinated effort launched by Lay to have Davis shoulder the blame for the crisis. It worked. According to recent polls, a majority of voters grew increasingly frustrated with the way Davis handled the power crisis. Schwarzenegger has used the energy crisis and missteps by Davis to bolster his standing with potential voters. While Davis took a beating in the press (some energy companies ran attack ads against the governor), Lay used his political clout to gather support for deregulation.

CONTINUED... IT GETS BETTER...

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0817-07.htm

[Jack Rabbit]

2. If Governor Schwarzenegger acts a Palast predicts

If Governor Schwarzenegger acts a Palast predicts then we'll just recall the bastard. This would be a far better reason than any given to recall Davis.

It's an interesting theory that Palast presents. It's not easy to dismiss out-of-hand. Palast has an excellent track record on matters such as this.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Bustamante is the hero of the story!

The real issue is that Arnold is in the back pockets of Pete Wilson's corporate sponsors. I am afraid that message is being drowned out by the sex stories.

[BattyDem]

3. Greg Palast is the best!

Californians ... did someone fax a copy of the article to Davis and Bustamante's offices?

[Old and In the Way]

6. We know it, but how to convey a complex fraud into easily understood

simple sentences? I mean, you need to distill this into 50 words max, if you want the message to sink in. An electorate that's lost it capacity for critical analysis because they get their news visually, will have a hard time getting their minds around the conspiracy...

[cosmicdot]

5. Kick

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[silverweb]

7. Kick

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I've emailed this to everyone I know and told them to spread it far and wide and FAST.

We're running out of time, people. This HAS to hit the major media before Tuesday and get LOTS of attention!

Schwarzenegger is not just a racist, sexist, pig... he's IN ON one of the major causes of the budget crisis that he's trying to blame Davis for!

This should be all over GD, too.

[cosmicdot]

8. another kick

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[realFedUp]

10. This is a dupe thread in Editorials

Good one though.

rfu, moderator