Enron Traders caught on tape (proof CA was manipulated)

[phoebe]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml

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"They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

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"It'd be great. I'd love to see Ken Lay Secretary of Energy," says one Enron worker.

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"When this election comes Bush will f------g whack this s--t, man. He won't play this price-cap b------t."

Crude, but true.

"We will not take any action that makes California's problems worse and that's why I oppose price caps," said Mr. Bush on May 29, 2001.

(Thanks to those who posted in LBN also - but thought it should be here, just in case...)
By the way..Shell is set to do very much the same thing with a refinery..

[mike_c]

1. the most telling line is in the last paragraph....

"Both the Justice Department and Enron tried to prevent the release of these tapes."

The justice department knew about the tapes. How long have they known? Why did they seek to suppress them?

[jcldragon]

2. Pete Wilson said utilty prices would go down with privatizing

Instead he set us up for the biggest robbery in history.

And then the Repugs blamed it on Gray Davis...

[theoceansnerves]

3. and then they sold the state

on the idea arnold was coming to rescue us.
and gee if he didn't do the exact opposite?
when will people learn...