Proposition 16: Articles and Analysis

Prop. 16 Analysis and Text

• Legislative Analyst's Office: nonpartisan fiscal and policy analysis of PG&E initiative (7/7/09)
• Actual text of Prop. 16 Initiative filed by PG&E's representative with the Attorney General's office (5/28/09)
• Judge: California Initiative System Out of Control (Not specific to Power grab)
• Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's Letter to PG&E CEO Peter Darbee

Articles and Editorials on Prop. 16

• Palo Alto Votes to Fight PG&E ‘Power Grab’, Palo Alto Online News, Gennady Sheyner (2/2/10)
• PG&E Spending Millions to Block Local Utilities, San Jose Mercury News, Dana Hull (1/31/10)
• PG&E Ballot Initiative Factsheet blog by John Geesman, former CA Energy Commissioner (2002-08)
• Editorial: PG&E Makes a New Power Grab, Sacramento Bee (1/20/10)
• Editorial: Measure Would Protect PG&E, Not Taxpayers, Redding Record-Searchlight (1/16/10)
• PG&E initiative on Power Suppliers on Ballot, SF Chronicle, David R. Baker (1/14/10)
• Community Bids to Bypass Utilities Facing Hurdles in CA, NY Times, Debra Kahn (1/7/10)
• Opinion: PG&E Ballot Measure is a Stealthy Power Play, LA Times, Michael Hiltzik (12/28/09)
• Letter from CA Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg & legislators to PG&E’s Peter Darbee (12/22/09)
• Monopoly Money - Can One Utility Block Marin's Climate Protection Efforts?, Metroactive, Juliane Poirier (10/21/09)
• The PG&E Plan: Trick the Voters and Make them Cry, The Santa Lucian, Sierra Club California, San Luis Obispo (Oct. 2009)