Electing Ahhnold will cost California $9 BILLION - Palast.

[rooboy]

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.

more...
http://www.gregpalast.com/

[madfloridian]

1. Excellent work, Mr. Palast!!

How the heck has this not seen the light of day until now? Or will it? I had not heard of this lawsuit.

SNIP...."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.

Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.

It takes real cojones to bring such a suit. Who's the plaintiff taking on the bad guys? Cruz Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor and reluctant leading candidate against Schwarzenegger....."END SNIP

[LunaSea]

2. link to emails

http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org/utilities/pr/pr003708.php3

[Bozita]

3. This is huge. And all the pieces seem to fit..

This story needs some instant publicity.

[punpirate]

5. The only piece that doesn't fit...

... is Issa spending his own money up front to finance the recall petition, and then dropping out. If he wasn't offered a deal, he'd have all the more reason to stay in the race, unless... a little birdie told him there was no way they would let him win....

Then again, maybe it wasn't his own money.

Cheers.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. Thank you Greg!

!

[gristy]

6. What's up with Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun?

He was mentioned prominently in those emails. All the better reason to run linux on a PC. F**k Sun.

[burythehatchet]

12. Interesting

anyone here holding a position on SUNW.NAS?

[Bozita]

7. I sent the story and email links to Malloy.

Hope that he sees it before signing off.

[Andy_Stephenson]

8. This is pertinent

considering this recent revelation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=392459


And I wonder...does George have the Videotape? Who posted the picture of Maria S. today...she was looking real haggard.

[maggrwaggr]

9. So Enron fucks Gray Davis, then gets their own candidate in there?

Man, we're all taking it up the ass.

The bad guys are winning, folks. What do we do?

The media seems to be on Arnold's side.

[burythehatchet]

10. HOLY Shite

I'm so used to hearing about his sexual abuse for about 30 seconds I was in shock thinking he actually fucked Ken Lay.

[Bozita]

15. No, Ken Lay is the fucker; Californians are the fuckees.

Ah-nuld is just gonna approve of the rape.

How appropriate.

[Bozita]

11. sent this thread to Bernie Ward at KGO.

anybody got some other ideas?

[TorchTheWitch]

13. I wonder

If this is the "IT" that has the Arnie camp so frightened to have uncovered.

[Bozita]

17. If there's an "IT," this is it.

It's unfuckingbelievably HUGE.

[burythehatchet]

14. much needed

kick

[nini]

16. We need to fax this article to every newspaper and news team

I wonder if the L.A.Times has seen this.

Enron is a dirty word in California.. this is huge.

[WindRavenX]

18. It never ends

Jesus H. Christ :eyes:
The Recall may be the sign of the end of the world...

[reprobate]

19. Won't make a damn bit of difference....

....if the media doesn't spread this around, and it's up to you guys in California to see to that.

On the other hand, I have the feeling that the media won't say a word about this. The fix is in and the bush empire is in control. If only the CIA would run a black op and make sure that these treasonous bastards see real justice. And they are mad enough right now to put the bush junta in their sights. I'm ashamed to say it, but I believe that the CIA may be the only thing to save the country. Otherwise I fear that there is no hope.

[madfloridian]

20. Kick

:kick:

[Bozita]

21. Bernie Ward will discuss the Palast story after the hourly news.

Ah-nuld is gonna go down.

[cosmicdot]

22. dangit ... who let the enron investigation drag its heels on the Hill?

:kick:

Where's Kenny Boy?????

the fix is bigger than the office


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

Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis
by Jason Leopold

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

[cthrumatrix]

23. Unbelievable....this must be shared by the media OR they should be

sued by the state of california for "persuading the voters to look elsewhere"...they have a right to thier $8B ...they were defrauded and the media is complicit ....this is the story.

[madfloridian]

24. Kick

:kick:

[Jack Rabbit]

25. Grounds to recall Governor Schwarzenegger

The reasons given by the backers of the present recall to remove Governor Davis are vague. They accuse him of "gross mismanagment" and don't sufficiently back up their case with anything that can't be used against most other governors of either party. Ted Costa, the real brains behind the recall movement, says that it's about the taxes. Oh, my! In a major fiscal crisis, the Governor suggests that maybe we'll have to raise taxes. Only in one of Grover Norquist's wet dreams is that grounds for removal.

As far as this Californian is concerned, $9bn of the people's money is currently in the lairs of corporate pirates like Ken Lay. I want it back -- all of it, with interest. If, as Palast predicts, Schwarzenegger drops the pursuit of this money because of his connection with the thieves, then he is no better than a thief. It would provide grounds to remove him from office. These grounds are much more solid than those provided by Costa for the removal of Governor Davis.

The GOP, through the recall of Governor Davis for vague or even absurd reasons, has lowered the bar for recall well below being an accessory to robbery after the fact. They would have no right to complain if California voters move against Arnold for being in bed with Enron, Reliant, Duke and the rest.