We Are Appalled,' Declared CPUC About 2004 PG&E Executive Bonus Scandal -- 'Give It Back'

The lead sentence in last Friday's San Francisco Chronicle article (headline: "PG&E Must Stop Threats To Public Power Agencies") hints at the dilemma Peter Darbee's political recklessness has created for his company and its heretofore guardian angels, the California Public Utilities Commission:
California energy regulators delivered a rare rebuke to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday, banning some of the hardball tactics the utility has used in its efforts to derail Marin County's new public power agency.
Darbee's brazen political overreach in launching Proposition 16, his sole-sponsored assault on the California Constitution and the historical prerogatives of the CPUC, may be slowly awakening Commissioners long criticized for carrying styrofoam police batons engraved with the mantra "can't we just get along?"

by John Geesman
4.11.10

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