Ah-Nold Refuses To Reveal His Energy Task Force Members - Sound Familiar?

[hatrack]

"A few days before Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California last year he stood on the steps of the capital building in Sacramento waving a broom over his head, an obvious symbolic gesture in which Schwarzenegger promised to clean up the political mess left by his predecessor, Gray Davis.

“I enter this office beholden to no one except you, my fellow citizens,” the Republican governor said when he was sworn in on Nov. 18, 2003. “I pledge my governorship to your interests, not to special interests…to those who have no power...to those who've dropped out - too weary or disappointed with politics as usual - I took this oath to serve you…I did not seek this office to do things the way they've always been done. What I care about is restoring your trust in your government.”

That was then. This is now.

In a page torn straight out of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney’s playbook on government secrecy, Schwarzenegger’s aides have refused to disclose the names of individuals who helped the governor draft a plan to retool California’s energy market, a plan that appears to benefit the very same special interests Schwarzenegger said he wasn’t handcuffed to during his campaign. Moreover, for the energy proposal to work, it relies heavily on piecemeal components of the state’s old deregulation law that sparked the energy crisis and wreaked havoc on consumers three years ago."

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http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=5613