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"Jail PG&E Executives" Says Dina Padilla-Candidate For CA Insurance Commissioner

by Dina Padilla For Insurance Commissioner
Dina Padilla, candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for California Insurance Commissioner is calling for the prosecution and jailing of PG&E Executives for their criminal malfeasance and the murder of San Bruno residents killed after the gas line blast. These company executives put the need for profits above the protection of the residents.
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Dina Padilla who is running for California Insurance Commissioner is calling for the prosecution and jailing of executives of PG&E for their personal responsibility for the deaths and destruction after the gas line explosion on September 9 in San Bruno, California. She spoke on 10/28/2010 about the blast and deaths and what needed to be done to stop these incidents in the future. These PG&E executives knew there were health and safety problems including leaking gas but did nothing to alleviate this dangerous situation. Instead they retaliated by firing of IBEW 1245 gas line worker Mike Wiseman who reported that the workers were not being properly trained to work on high pressure gas lines. This criminal malfeasance has been ignored by Democratic party candidate Dave Jones who says he wants to fight the insurance companies. He is also afraid to debate his political opponents in the election yet says he wants to fight the insurance industry. If you are afraid to debate this issues how are you going to fight the insurance industry?
The corporate control of the California Public Utility Commission and the US National Transportation Safety Board is a direct result of deregulation by the Democrats and Republicans and the corporate take-over of our government by these corporateers.
Upon taking office I will demand that the Attorney General of California begin the prosecution of the executives at PG&E and will work for the public operation of this out of control utility. Their deadly and dirty record of running PG&E make them ineligible to continue their ownership and control of this utility for the working people of California.
For more information go to http://www.padilla4insurancecommissioner.com
§Dina Padilla
by Dina Padilla For Insurance Commissioner
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Dina Padilla, the Insurance Industry's Worst Nightmare
§PG&E executives
by Dina Padilla For Insurance Commissioner
These PG&E executives need to be prosecuted and go to jail for the deaths and destruction they caused
§The fire at San Bruno
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This explosion and fire were the direct result of the drive to put corporate profits above the lives of San Bruno residents.
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PG&E is one of the new robber barons of our age. They control the California Public Utilities Commission. Instead of pushing Smart Meters on people who don't want them PG&E should have been checking and maintaining their lines. If there was any honor or dignity left, the entire CPUC would resign in shame over the deaths in San Bruno

Of course, we the people of the US, don't want to vote for someone who tells the truth and stands up against the powerful corporate interests. They would never get elected.

So Concerned Taxpayer - what would have suggest we do? Watch the baseball game, get high or drunk, become a recluse? What, what is your suggestion and what is so wrong with someone telling the truth and trying - even if their chances are slim. Bush didn't even win the elections - and he became President - so why shouldn't others try to make it? Hell, they don't even need to be elected.
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YouTube - The Crimes Of P&E-San Mateo Resident Pat Gray Speaks Out
San Mateo resident Pat Gray and San Mateo County P&F Chair speaks out about the crimes of PG&E in the recent deadly explosion in San Bruno, California. She is followed by Dina Padilla, an injured worker advocate who is running for California Insurance Commissioner from Peace and Freedom Party.
San Bruno explosion victims get more bs from PG&E and PUC "How do we make sure people don't blow smoke up our asses when they're lying?"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/30/BA2D1G4EG0.DTL
San Bruno explosion victims get some answers

Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, October 30, 2010
Mike Kepka / The Chronicle
A month after a PG&E gas line exploded in a San Bruno neighborhood, a street sign at the corner of Claremont and Glenview streets remains intact.

(10-29) 21:31 PDT SAN BRUNO -- First there was the horror, then the grief, then the wondering about how to rebuild. Now, seven weeks later, the tedious strain of recovery has fully set in for those affected by the Sept. 9 San Bruno pipeline explosion.

That was abundantly clear Friday night as 350 people packed a church to pick over the fine points of filing tax forms, negotiating with insurance companies and all the other exasperating details that go into putting life back together after a disaster.

This was the second town meeting for residents to lob questions at their mayor, congresswoman, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials and all the others who have a role in righting the mess left by the fireball that destroyed 37 homes and killed eight people. But, unlike other gatherings, the main focus wasn't so much on blame or anguished venting.

This time, the discussion trod through the less emotionally laden territory of such things as how much tax will be levied on the $50,000 PG&E is offering people to move quickly out of or rebuild their homes in the blast zone. Or, how soon the water and other utilities will be inspected to make sure they weren't damaged by the fire.

The answers weren't all complete, but just getting some information was progress, most thought. For instance, they found out that, yes, that $50,000 will be taxed, but no, house replacement insurance money will not. Utility inspections are going on or are planned for next year, they were told.

And they were reassured by both Mayor Jim Ruane and PG&E officials that as they rebuild their homes, the 30-inch pipeline that blew up won't be running through their neighborhood anymore.

"This has been a tragedy beyond all tragedies," said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, who convened the meeting at St. Robert's Catholic Church in San Bruno. And though sorting through these details is a "new frontier for all of us," she vowed to make sure the response is "humane and swift."

The crowded greeted Speier and Ruane, who have been front and center throughout the response to the disaster, with cheers and applause. Not so for PG&E or its oversight organization, the California Public Utilities Commission.

That's when it showed most that the community's wounds are still raw.

When Ruane announced that the pipeline will be routed out of the damaged neighborhood, everyone clapped - even though the new location is not yet known. But when PG&E Senior Vice President Geisha Williams reiterated the promise and expressed sympathy for the community's "simply unimaginable" pain, there was stony silence.

The reception was even chillier for CPUC division Director Richard Clark.

Asked why it takes a disaster for aging pipelines to be replaced, Clark said that is "not accurate," and explained that inspections "go on all the time" to make sure repairs are timely.

To that, a crowd member yelled, "How do we make sure people don't blow smoke up our asses when they're lying?"
E-mail Kevin Fagan at kfagan(at)sfchronicle.com.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10047038
Top PG&E Executive Gets $9.4M in 2009 Compensation
PG&E CEO Darbee sees '09 compensation rise nearly 9 percent to $9.4 million, AP says
The Associated Press
March 8, 2010 (AP)
The top executive of energy company PG&E received total compensation of $9.4 million in 2009, an increase of nearly 9 percent, according to Associated Press calculations of data filed with regulators on Monday.

Peter Darbee, PG&E's chairman, president and CEO, received a salary of $1.1 million in 2009, a 4 percent increase from 2008, and a performance-based bonus of nearly $1.9 million, an increase of 46 percent from 2008, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The bulk of his compensation was in stock awards totaling $6.3 million for 2009, a 2 percent increase from 2008.

For the first time, the incentive plans for PG&E executives included their performance on an environmental leadership index that measures, among other things, how successful they were in getting the company to reduce its energy and water usage and cut the waste that goes to landfills.

PG&E, based in San Francisco, is the parent of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people in northern and central California and is one of the largest power companies in the U.S.


For the year, PG&E had net income of $1.2 billion, or $3.20 a share, compared with net income of $1.34 billion, or $3.63 a share, in 2008. Revenue fell to $13.4 billion from $14.6 billion.

The Associated Press compensation formula is designed to isolate the value the company's board placed on the executive's total compensation package during the last fiscal year. It includes salary, bonus, performance-related bonuses, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.

The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the SEC, which reflect the size of the accounting charge taken for the executive's compensation in the previous fiscal year.
PG&E: Corporate Structure & History

http://www.energy-net.org/1NWO/PGE/1PGE.HTM
Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Executive Summary:

A review of a shameful history

PG&E isn't your average utility company. Up until the mid 1990's it had been the largest privately owned electric utility company in the U.S. with over 4 million customers, covering 2/3rds of California. The company has played a major role in shaping California and its political climate during the 20th century.

Electricity and its development has been the single most important political and technological event in american history. The incorporated version of how the electrification of society should proceed is at the heart of a culture gone awry with its misuse of power.

One hundred years ago, at the dawn of the electrical revolution, the Southern Pacific Railroad company's big four, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and Colis Huntington had a complete monopoly on the politics and economy of California. They owned the banks, judges, politicians and transportation system of the state. They also held deeds to 1/5 of its arable land.

The Southern Pacific Crowd joined forces with J.P. Morgan and European financiers who were using vast amounts of royalist money to build up and take financial control of America's corporations. This unholy alliance of royalist influence over command and control of corporate structure was also behind the creation of PG&E and its primary roll model, the english controlled General Electric company, which is the largest company in the world today.

This gigantic company hitched its values and vision to the monopolistic agenda of the Southern Pacific Railroad Robber Barrons of the 19th century. These men turned one of the most beautiful places on earth into a haven for huge corporations that have trapped humans into a deadly treadmill of economic servitude.

PG&E and America's privately own electric power industry have been given a very special historical relationship. This is the only industry in America that has been given the right to be a regional monopoly. This historic right is imbedded at the heart of the longest, bitterest ideological battle in American history. The super elite power brokers that own this country had also owned the country's water distribution system at the turn of the century, but lost it when the progressive movement municipalized this indespensible utiity. The battle to do the same thing with electricity and phones also failed.

PG&E's version of the American Dream is to use their wealth and power to dominate the focus and direction of our culture. On page 327 of PG&E's own 1952 biography, they label competition as "destructive". You can be assured that they are talking about anyone or any political movement that might get in the company's century old monopoly over electric power in California.

Most of the documentation here covering PG&E is based upon the barely known historical fact that California was conquered by corporate activists that have ruled this state like no other. The fact that only 4 democrats have ever been elected as governor in its 150 year history, even though they have made up the vast majority of its voters for the last 70 years is a testiment to the economic power that has been wielded here.

Since the death of the original big four (Crocker, Huntington, Hopkins and Stanford) a century ago, the corporate criminals that brutally took this state have gone onto institutionalize their style to the point that elitist corporate values are now considered the norm rather than the perversion they truly are. The California Dream is a state of mind where its citizens have been fed only a portion of the state's corporate controlled history. The part that plays down the huge scandals and poltical war that has been waged upon its workers and average people.

This document opens up a small glimpse into the despicable actions of the Pacific Crowd (Southern Pacific, Pacific Bell and PG&E). focussing on PG&E and how their greedy agenda has shaped this state.

The New Era

But at the dawn of the new millenium their shared plan to escape regulatory "hell" has gone up in flames. After taking over $5 billion in assets out of the state, using the money to buy into the New England electric market, what was left of PG&E in California declared bankruptcy as a result of Enron attempt to take over the state's power market. The shared plan, is the strategic globalization plan that has been pushing government deregulation at the same time the World Trade Organization has been setting up its version of George Bush's New World Order.

PG&E's corporate history, from the moment of its birth up to the present, has been linked to its willingness to do just about anything to protect its self perceived business interests. What made this dispicable agenda possible is the fact that San Francisco was ruled by brutal men whose drive for wealth and power was the only game in town from the 1850's right up to PG&E's formation in 1905.

Much as the 1960's was a reaction to war and cultural stagnancy, the progressive era from 1900 to 1930 was a reaction to the brutal robber barrons that ran California and the country. Decent people here in California could no longer stand idly by as Southern Pacific's Big four and their cronies were creating their own version of a royalist super elite empire.

The very schemers that created PG&E became the centerpiece of change as San Francisco squared off around PG&E's employee Abe Ruef and the rest of the corrupt Southern Pacific crowd. Boss Ruef was put on trial as were hundreds of Pacific insiders after, the just formed, company's gas mains burned 20,000 city blocks down on April 18th 1906. Ruef was the only person to serve time while the rest of SP elite were able to escape prosecution due to its political and economic control over the state and San Francisco.

The creation of PG&E was organized by SP's Crocker family with the intent of taking over the 50 year old San Francisco Gas & Electric Company. California Gas & Electric (CG&E) was formed in 1901 as a consolidation of Crocker and SP utilities from Sacramento to San Jose, with the intent of getting control of the huge San Francisco electric market by swallowing up SFG&E. In just under 4 years this was completed as CG&E took over SFG&E in the fall of 1905, with the new entity to be called PG&E. At the same time PG&E's lawyer Boss Ruef was bribing the S.F. Board of Supervisors around of the cities street light contract. PG&E's newly aquired gas run street lights then proceeded to burn down 20,000 city blocks a couple of months later when the Great `06 quake hit.

What a wonderful start for such a bunch of monsters!

The company's intimate corporate agenda has made the financial empire behind the men at PG&E one of the most brutal around. Its direct ties to the old Southern Pacific empire gave the company its guiding values for its role in California.

In 1937, a depression era congressional investigative committee called the TNEC incorrectly placed control of both Southern California Edison and PG&E in the hands of SP's Crocker Family. They weren't far off. The Crockers did carry out a major role in its formation, but there are much bigger fish that had quietly taken up position in California in 1900.

At the time, the original big 4 of Southern Pacific, that had built the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, taken control of 20% of the states' land, had a complete monopoly of all land and water transportation to California, ruled California's state government and held control of most of the state's financial resources, was dying of old age. The Rockefellers and Morgan empires were eager to come in and take on the financial underwear of the SP and did, when Collis P. Huntington, the last of the SP's big four died in 1900.

As Edward Harriman completed the purchase of SP in 1902, another New Yorker, named NW Halsey initiated the process that led to the formation of PG&E in 1906. By 1916, National City Company was firmly in the driver seat of PG&E. Today National is known as CitiCorp. National had been known as one of John D. Rockefeller's bank. But Teddy Roosevelt had forced John to get rid of the bank, which he gave to his brother, who just happened to be tight buddies with J.P. Morgan.

National went onto to be the star financial front via a series of economic structures set up by Morgan that by 1930 had control over 50% of all electric utility investments in the U.S.

The battle for the heart and soul of California will be set aside for the moment, to briefly describe some of the wonderful civic achievments of PG&E and its honorable men of power.

Here's a list of some of the known scandals:

Abe Ruef Scandal Timeline
SF labor leader Tom Mooney fingered by PG&E Pinkerton
Organized the Greater California League, spending $500,000 in 1922 to kill statewide initiative drive to municipalize utilities.
coalition leader on changing the history in school text books to protect how American's percieved their role in electric power development
The Takeover of Hetch Hetchy Timeline
led the push in reducing the scale of the Central Valley Project,now part of Western Area Power Administration.
The utility gained its huge size by taking over locally owned power companies from Santa Barbara in the South to Eureka in the north.
The agressive takeover of Friant and Shasta dam electricity that had been destined for rural coops in northern california
The coalition leader in developing nuclear power in U.S.
Holds the distinction of being the focus of the first anti-nuclear movement in history, starting in 1958 when they tried to push through 4 nuclear reactors on the epicenter of the 1906 earthquake at Bodeaga Bay.
Its 2nd reactor complex at Humbolt bay was dubbed the dirtiest nuclear reactor in the U.S. and shut down in the late 70's when plutonium was found on children's playground a mile away.
Bribed the Sierra club into allowing the siting of Diablo Canyon at the 2nd to last coastal wilderness in California. The scandal led to David Brower leaving the Sierra Club and forming Friends of the Earth.
Pushed to build over 60 nuclear reactors in its service area. But ended up taking on over 20 years of opposition to its push to build reactors all over the state.
Opposed lifeline electric rates in the state, but failed.
Attempted to take the very law it had helped to pass a few years earlier that limited its ability to construct new reactors in the state, all the way to the U.S. Supreme court, but failed.
Caught in PCB transformer scandals that contaminated a city building and its own workers.
Designed and built the Helms Stored River project, that went nearly 10x's over original budget and killed a score of workers.
Forced to rebuild the Diablo Canyon reactors 3 times, running the cost up from $300 million to $5.8 billion.
A newly hired engineer discovers that PG&E had built the seismic supports for the reactors backwards, just after the Abalone Alliance had completed the largest civil disobedience action in U.S. history.
PG&E is part of a national coalition to permanently privatize a 1920 agreement that would allow municipally owned utilities to bid on over 400 dams nationwide when their 50 operating license came up. The successful campaign ended up giving PG&E and SoCalEd over 60 dams here in California.
Ronald Reagan secretly orders the EPA to give the financial strapped utility $2.7 billion to help PG&E finish Diablo Canyon.
The Diablo Canyon operation was allowed to go ahead by Judge Robert Bork. He was famous for being the Nixon's saturday night massacre lawyer that fired the Watergate prosecutor.
Literally every environmental law on the book was waived to allow PG&E to obtain its 2 billion gallon dumping permit into the ocean. The state's regional quality control board refused to allow them to dump water, but was overturned by the state.
The reactors were built near the Hosgri faultline that destroyed Santa Barbara in a 1927 earthquake.
The first time the reactors were turned on, 14,000 Abalone in Diablo Bay were killed. The cove was also home to a sacred Chumash burial area and was the home of the worlds largest oak trees.
In the late 1990's it was disclosed that PG&E had covered up the extent of damages to the coast and Abalone, and was given a $14 million fine. The fine was later reversed.
The company spent $110 million in legal fees to win the Diablo Canyon rate case. The state, which had promised that it would force the utility to eat at least $2 billion of the construction costs settled a deal that gave away the whole house, setting up a $54 billion 30 contract for PG&E.
The 1989 rate settlement led to the steepest rate increases in the country, driving electric costs from 8 cents a kwh to over 14 cents by 1994.
This huge increase led to the revolt of big electric users, that in turn caused the disasterous Wilson deregulation plan.
PG&E was a coalition partner in destroying the grassroots based alternative energy movement in the state that was culminated in their FERC appeal that killed PURPA contracts in the state in 1994.
PG&E took the national lead in the mid 80's, with their U.S. Supreme Court case that killed Citizen Utility Board's across the country. The Nader inspired CUB's had succesfully gained access to PG&E's electric bill here when the CPUC allowed TURN to do inserts.
PG&E's was part of a coalition of California corporations that sponsored the Pacific Legal Foundation and its SLAP suit against the Abalone Alliance that put it out of existance.
PG&E was part of the inside coaliton of organizers, with the help of Palo Based EPRI, in the national agenda to deregulate the electric industry.
The San Diego team of Steve Peace and Governor Wilson led the team plan to give the state's utilities the disasterous deregulation mess. It included a $28 billion bonus to cover all the construction costs of Diablo Canyon and SoCal Eds' SONGS reactors.
Check out the Julia Roberts movie for more scandals that contaminated over 1,000 workers with Chromium contamination
Oh, yes and its spent large amounts of money many many times to defeat public power initiatives in San Francisco and elsewhere
Daly City Site Draws Anger of Neighbors / Tainted soil being exposed, they say
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/05/MN79031.DTL
Daly City Site Draws Anger of Neighbors

Tainted soil being exposed, they say
Angelica Pence, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 5, 0

Daly City housing project residents say exposed soil is tainted.

Studies find new test for cervical cancer beats pap smear.

Call for blood donations called "very critical."

Study finds possible genetic cause for high lung cancer risk in women.

Old bull cells found not too old to clone.
(10-19) 04:00 PDT DALY CITY -- Irate residents of a Daly City housing project led a demonstration yesterday to protest nearby construction that they say is the latest example of decades of economic and environmental racism.

More than two dozen people representing Midway Village held up signs and blocked the entrance to a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. construction site during a morning rain. The power company is overturning contaminated soil, which many residents hold responsible for a slew of health problems suffered by the project's 150 low- income families.

Some of the dirt and groundwater being dug up is known to contain the carcinogen polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, or PNAs. Protesters say the pollutant is also buried beneath residents' homes and in nearby Bayshore Park, giving Midway Village residents tumors, breathing problems, bloody noses, rashes and other illnesses.

Lula Bishop, whose home sits only about 10 feet away from the construction site, woke up with feelings of nausea yesterday morning after breathing fumes she said have come from the site since workers began excavation.

``We're in a medical emergency,'' said Bishop, who has lived in Midway Village since 1977. ``Our kids are getting sick. They have rashes our doctors can't explain. We suffer from cancers. Something has to be done.''

The county built the housing complex in 1976 on a parcel of land that included the site of a former PG&E plant, which had deposited coal tar and soot into the soil before closing in 1913. PG&E found the waste in 1980 and a decade later notified county officials that the soil near Midway Village was polluted with suspected carcinogens.

The residents' most recent lawsuit against the San Mateo County Housing Authority and PG&E was dismissed in 1997 after a judge ruled that the residents failed to link the chemical exposure to their maladies.

John Martin, Daly City manager, said more than $160,000 has been spent on safety measures to prevent Midway Village residents from coming into contact with the chemicals during the project, which is to enlarge an outdated storm drainage system.

The state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is overseeing the cleanup of contaminated soil, according to the department's project manager, Alfred Wanger.

Workers are watering down the work site and covering it with tarps and metal plates at the end of the workday, Wanger said, as well as monitoring the air quality to make sure any contaminated particles in the soil do not become airborne. At Bayshore Park, a 10-foot fence was also erected to keep people from getting too close to the excavation.

The project, which got under way in mid-October, was originally to be completed in three to four weeks, Wanger said. The agency has been forced to push back the completion date in part because of the continuing protests, he said, noting that pickets have blocked trucks sent in to haul away the toxic soil.

State officials also offered to temporarily relocate residents who live directly adjacent to the construction site. But of 16 families eligible for the transfer, only two volunteered to move, said Otis Jackson, spokesman for the department, which is under the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Some Midway Village residents said the offer was too little, too late. For years now, they have been seeking compensation for their ailments and are asking to be permanently moved from the area. They also want any medical expenses incurred as a result of the toxic soil paid for by those responsible.

Demonstrators hope the protest -- the seventh such action in the past few weeks -- will keep the spotlight on the residents' drawn- out battle with PG&E and the county Housing Authority over the soil.

Officials have shown ``a callous disregard for the health and well- being of those who live here,'' said Bradley Angel, spokesman for Greenaction, a health and environmental justice group.

Midway Village residents ``are prisoners of their low-income status,'' he said. ``If this were a rich, white community, do you think they'd be forced to live on toxic soil for generations?''
by concerned voter
How can you elect a person insurance commissioner when she doesn't know the first thing about being insurance commissioner. This is the same lady who consistently reeks havoc with the Fraud Assessment Commission meetings. Don't vote for Dina Padilla. Things are bad enough. We don't need them to get worse. We already elected one incompetent named Schwarzenegger we don't need more.

What is she going to do after the election. No more Dina Padilla demands this and Dina Padilla Demands that.... Aww what the heck no one listens to her anyway.....
Anyone that really knows who I am also know that I have first hand knowledge of the insurance industry with its fraud & corruption, denial of medical care and back dating claims. Citizens, patients,, injured workers and taxpayers would not otherwise be coming to me for over 20 years to assist or educate them about what they are entitled to. Agencies that do nothing on behalf of those who pay premiums like the patients, people who have motor vehicle accidents, no dental care, home owner exclusions on radiation, asbestos & mold and the whole insurance takeover of medicine with fraud & corruption. What about the DOI commissioner not allowing individual policy holders in meetings with the insurance industry to rebut the ins industry's demands for premiums increases? If an agency, commission or board does not make demands to do their obligations and job , on behalf of the people, then elect someone who does know and will continue to make the demands. Elected or not, I will continue to demand that the government, legislators, agencies, boards, commissions do their job on behalf of the people of the state of California because that is not only my right but also my civil obligation as a citizen and a voter! Does "concerned voter" have the courage to sign/ his her name to his/her rant? No! Of course not!
by Is This An Insurance Company Shill SG
The brave poster here "concerned voter" seems to know about the inner workings of the California Fraud Assessment Commission FAC. This commission is supposed to do oversight of California District Attorney's on their enforcement of workers compensation fraud when it hands out $29 million of premium money. Not surprisingly it is controlled by the insurance companies and self insured employers. They control the board with NO consumer or injured worker representatives on the board. Not surprisingly they also refuse to go after insurance companies and self insured employers when they terrorize injured workers and cost shift their liability onto the public. This shill "concerned voter" maybe one Sam Gold who pretends to be a supporter of injured workers but wants to get money out of the workers comp system for his TV show.
Apparently he thinks that Dina Padilla who is running for Insurance Commissioner http://www.padilla4insurancecommissioner.com and who has challenged the corruption, cost shifting and cover-up of the insurance industry and self-insured employers is the problem at the FAC. This makes this person a shill for these crooks.
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