{"article":{"id":87372,"heading":"Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay","author":"xx","created":"2003-10-08 04:45:17","modified":"2003-10-10 02:39:24","last_modified":"Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:39:24","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/utilities\/pr\/pr003708.php3\">http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/utilities\/pr\/pr003708.php3<\/a> <br><br> NEWS RELEASE <br>  <br> Oct 03, 2003 <br><br> Schwarzenegger: Total Amnesia? <br><br> Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy Crisis <br>  <br> Santa Monica, CA --Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis. View the e-mails. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the information that was presented and discussed. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California for two consecutive days; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting.  <br><br> \"You don't meet with America's most well-known corporate crook in the middle of California's biggest financial disaster and not remember,\" said FTCR's senior consumer advocate Douglas Heller. \"Mr. Schwarzenegger should come clean about what happened at that meeting and if he shares Ken Lay's views on energy regulation.\" <br><br> The documents provide a list of invitees to the hastily arranged meeting and a list of those who actually attended. Only eleven of the 45 invitees attended, including Schwarzenegger. The meeting was meant to be an opportunity to gain business community support for Enron's \"comprehensive solution\" to the energy crisis. In one e-mail, Enron's VP of Public Relations wrote: \"We'd like to position this meeting as an insider's conversation of what's going on with the energy situation. This meeting should be for principals only.\" (emphasis in original)  <br><br> FTCR contends that Enron policies were responsible for the severe energy crisis California faced in 2000 and 2001. The group noted that the crisis had dramatic implications on the state economy and state budget and will continue to impact consumers for years to come. FTCR has called for a repeal of the deregulation and supported SB 888 (Dunn) to re-regulate the state's electricity system. FTCR has been critical of Enron's involvement in the California energy crisis, in which the company developed schemes for manipulating the power market that forced massive price spikes in the state. <br><br> \"Since it was apparently important enough for Schwarzenegger to attend despite the last minute notice, Schwarzenegger should now explain what happened at his meeting with Enron's Ken Lay and whether or not he supports electricity re-regulation,\" said Heller. <br><br> View the e-mails. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/utilities\/rp\/rp003709.pdf\">http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/utilities\/rp\/rp003709.pdf<\/a> <br>  <br> . <br><br> -30- <br><br> FTCR is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization. FTCR does not support or oppose candidates for office and takes no position on the California recall.\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy Crisis","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/10\/87372.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":87375,"heading":"senile old fart","article":"Well, if Arnold can't remember the meeting, then there must be something wrong with his mind. Maybe he's getting senile. That could explain why he can't remember sexually harassing those women, why he can't remember saying he idolized Hilter, etc.... Yet another reason why he should NOT be elected governor -- because he has poor memory, which will affect job performance.\r\n\r\nArnold: &quot;Um, legislation... What legislation?&quot;","author":"author","parent_id":87372,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-08 05:53:49","modified":"2003-10-08 05:53:49","fileurl":""},{"id":87377,"heading":"&quot;They&quot; save $9 billion by making him Governor!","article":"EUROPE KNOWS : WHAT ABOUT YOU ?\r\n\r\nYou really should know what the Californian &quot;election&quot;\r\nand this &quot;Enron-Schwarzenegger scenario&quot; is about !\r\n\r\n&quot;They&quot; save $ 9 billion by making him Governor !\r\n\r\n'Terminating' their debts ! \r\n\r\nAnd You Pay !\r\n\r\nRead the story by John Pilger, one of the best journalists alive !\r\n\r\n&quot;Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear.\u00a0 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 &quot;Unfair Business Practices Act.&quot;\u00a0 \r\n\r\nThis 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.&quot;\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=283\r\n\r\nFwd\/HR-FPF \r\n\r\nFOREIGN  PRESS  FOUNDATION\r\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/orc6 \r\nEditor :  Henk Ruyssenaars\r\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jo4y\r\nThe Netherlands\r\nfpf@chello.nl\r\n\r\nThe Dutch author worked for many decades for international A\/V media as foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. \r\n\r\nSeeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !\r\n\r\nHR","author":"Foreign Press Foundation","parent_id":87372,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-08 06:21:48","modified":"2013-11-11 00:26:36","fileurl":""},{"id":87437,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Regardless of the outcome of this election, Arnold must answer the voter of California on this issue...&quot;I don't recall&quot; just don't wash here...\r\n\r\nWay to go FTCR!  You guys are the greatest!","author":"KPC","parent_id":87372,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-08 14:38:14","modified":"2003-10-08 14:38:14","fileurl":""}]}