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Former FERC chairman charges Enron chief made improper demands
Bush gave Enron "hire and fire" authority over the FERC
Former FERC chairman charges Enron chief made improper demands
By Mike Hersh
January 25, 2002—Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Hebert, Jr. is going public with explosive allegations. Hebert says Ken Lay as CEO of Enron—the largest contributor to George Walker Bush—made improper demands.
When Lay threatened that his close friend Bush would fire Hebert unless he obeyed, Hebert refused. Lay ordered Bush to fire Hebert, and Bush complied in August 2001. Hebert has been on record about all of this for months, but he recently made a new, even more explosive charge. Hebert says Bush also let Lay interview him and other candidates for FERC chairman in the first place!
In a nutshell: Enron gave Bush millions to sponsor his rise from a losing candidate for the US House to the "leader of the free world." In return, Bush gave Enron "hire and fire" authority over the FERC, and performed other favors in return for money. This directly and personally ties Bush to the Enrongate scandal in all its illegality.
Bush betrayed his oath to the American people when he let Ken Lay hand pick regulatory watchdogs we entrusted to prevent the massive meltdown that cost Americans billions. This makes letting the fox guard the henhouse look like tender loving fiduciary care.
This is nothing new for Bush, who fired Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC) director Eliza May in retaliation for her investigations of Service Corporation International and its CEO Robert Waltrip. Waltrip—like Lay—is a longtime Bush patron.
Bush apparently lied under oath regarding this political quid-pro-quo, and then he and SCI settled a lawsuit to keep May quiet. Texas taxpayers picked up $155,000 of the hush money tab, while SCI paid May the other $55,000, according to a Dallas Morning News story published last Nov. 9. Texans know this scandal as "Funeralgate."
The "Rule of Law" requires that Bush testify under oath about Funeralgate, his and brother John Ellis Bush's Votergate activities during the 2000 election in Florida, and Enrongate. We already know George Walker Bush has an established pattern of helping his friends and backers evade regulation and possibly even criminal charges.
We must demand action now, because Enron and its accountants at Anderson have been destroying evidence by the box load. We must know what Bush did, and why he did it.
Enrongate is not just a Bush scandal: this is a Republican scandal. Other top GOP officials like VP Dick Cheney, White House advisor Karl Rove, House Leader Dick Armey and Sen. Phil Gramm also helped Enron plunder and evade regulation. They helped Enron rip off consumers, investors and employees.
Ignore Republican and media efforts to spin this as a business scandal or a bipartisan scandal. This is not about the generous, but legal contributions Enron made: 73 percent to Republicans, 27 percent to Democrats. This is a GOP political scandal because Republicans helped Enron pay no taxes in four out of five years, while hiding profits in offshore accounts. Despite the hype, no Democrat did anything of the sort.
Even with all these special favors, golden boy Ken Lay ran Enron into the ground. Adding insult to injury, if not perfidy to perjury, the Republican "stimulus porkage" aims to give Enron and Lay even more of your tax money.
This Republican scandal exposes GOP corruption at the highest levels, but more profoundly, it reveals the bankruptcy of the GOP "government is the problem" ideology. It blows the lid off Bush's Enronomics, and his plan to Enronitize Social Security, energy and other policies.
Already, Armey and Gramm are quitting politics to escape Enrongate, but ending their careers to enjoy tax-paid pensions may not be enough to satisfy justice and the "Rule of Law."
These top Republicans—all outspoken critics of President Clinton's conduct in office—should welcome full-scale investigations into their own apparent influence pedaling. As should House Whip Tom DeLay, VP Cheney, George Walker Bush, and other GOP leaders. As should Ken Lay, Sen. Gramm's wife Wendy—a former regulator turned Enron board member.
If they broke the law, they should pay the penalty. That's been the Republican mantra for nearly a decade. Let them prove they meant it by volunteering to testify before the US Senate—under oath, on national television. If they're innocent, what do they have to fear? They should welcome the opportunity to come clean or set the record straight.
Despite their nonstop pontificating about others' lacking accountability, I'm not confident these Republicans will step up and do the right thing. We must take it upon ourselves to demand justice and uphold the "Rule of Law." Call the media and your elected officials now to make sure they understand the real issues in Enrongate, Funeralgate, and Votergate. Let the investigations, perhaps even impeachment, begin.
Copyright © 2002 Mike Hersh
By Mike Hersh
January 25, 2002—Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Hebert, Jr. is going public with explosive allegations. Hebert says Ken Lay as CEO of Enron—the largest contributor to George Walker Bush—made improper demands.
When Lay threatened that his close friend Bush would fire Hebert unless he obeyed, Hebert refused. Lay ordered Bush to fire Hebert, and Bush complied in August 2001. Hebert has been on record about all of this for months, but he recently made a new, even more explosive charge. Hebert says Bush also let Lay interview him and other candidates for FERC chairman in the first place!
In a nutshell: Enron gave Bush millions to sponsor his rise from a losing candidate for the US House to the "leader of the free world." In return, Bush gave Enron "hire and fire" authority over the FERC, and performed other favors in return for money. This directly and personally ties Bush to the Enrongate scandal in all its illegality.
Bush betrayed his oath to the American people when he let Ken Lay hand pick regulatory watchdogs we entrusted to prevent the massive meltdown that cost Americans billions. This makes letting the fox guard the henhouse look like tender loving fiduciary care.
This is nothing new for Bush, who fired Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC) director Eliza May in retaliation for her investigations of Service Corporation International and its CEO Robert Waltrip. Waltrip—like Lay—is a longtime Bush patron.
Bush apparently lied under oath regarding this political quid-pro-quo, and then he and SCI settled a lawsuit to keep May quiet. Texas taxpayers picked up $155,000 of the hush money tab, while SCI paid May the other $55,000, according to a Dallas Morning News story published last Nov. 9. Texans know this scandal as "Funeralgate."
The "Rule of Law" requires that Bush testify under oath about Funeralgate, his and brother John Ellis Bush's Votergate activities during the 2000 election in Florida, and Enrongate. We already know George Walker Bush has an established pattern of helping his friends and backers evade regulation and possibly even criminal charges.
We must demand action now, because Enron and its accountants at Anderson have been destroying evidence by the box load. We must know what Bush did, and why he did it.
Enrongate is not just a Bush scandal: this is a Republican scandal. Other top GOP officials like VP Dick Cheney, White House advisor Karl Rove, House Leader Dick Armey and Sen. Phil Gramm also helped Enron plunder and evade regulation. They helped Enron rip off consumers, investors and employees.
Ignore Republican and media efforts to spin this as a business scandal or a bipartisan scandal. This is not about the generous, but legal contributions Enron made: 73 percent to Republicans, 27 percent to Democrats. This is a GOP political scandal because Republicans helped Enron pay no taxes in four out of five years, while hiding profits in offshore accounts. Despite the hype, no Democrat did anything of the sort.
Even with all these special favors, golden boy Ken Lay ran Enron into the ground. Adding insult to injury, if not perfidy to perjury, the Republican "stimulus porkage" aims to give Enron and Lay even more of your tax money.
This Republican scandal exposes GOP corruption at the highest levels, but more profoundly, it reveals the bankruptcy of the GOP "government is the problem" ideology. It blows the lid off Bush's Enronomics, and his plan to Enronitize Social Security, energy and other policies.
Already, Armey and Gramm are quitting politics to escape Enrongate, but ending their careers to enjoy tax-paid pensions may not be enough to satisfy justice and the "Rule of Law."
These top Republicans—all outspoken critics of President Clinton's conduct in office—should welcome full-scale investigations into their own apparent influence pedaling. As should House Whip Tom DeLay, VP Cheney, George Walker Bush, and other GOP leaders. As should Ken Lay, Sen. Gramm's wife Wendy—a former regulator turned Enron board member.
If they broke the law, they should pay the penalty. That's been the Republican mantra for nearly a decade. Let them prove they meant it by volunteering to testify before the US Senate—under oath, on national television. If they're innocent, what do they have to fear? They should welcome the opportunity to come clean or set the record straight.
Despite their nonstop pontificating about others' lacking accountability, I'm not confident these Republicans will step up and do the right thing. We must take it upon ourselves to demand justice and uphold the "Rule of Law." Call the media and your elected officials now to make sure they understand the real issues in Enrongate, Funeralgate, and Votergate. Let the investigations, perhaps even impeachment, begin.
Copyright © 2002 Mike Hersh
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This is about the biggest story your going to see for some time on the
Energy Crisis, Carbon Dioxide, Acid Rain, Global Warming, Smog,
Pollution, and renewable energy just going to waste.
My invention will power a home during the "peak" with Energy that would
otherwise just go to waste during the "off peak".
By using "off peak" energy this will reduce CO2 and power plant pollution
by 10,950 lbs. (5.5 tons) per home, per year, every year.
We do not need to build more power plants. California alone is wasting the
equivalent energy that 500 to 700 (500 megawatt) power plants can produce
in one hour.
Go to http://www.caiso.com, tab on "system conditions", enlarge the graph, add up
the 24 hours of "Surplus" energy in megawatts, and divide by 500 megawatts,
which is a huge power plant.
All sources of energy are represented in the "surplus" including all forms of
"off peak" Green Energy.
The following Governor's Energy Offices are in direct contact with me on my
Energy Saving Invention. Pataki, Warner, Swift, Shaheen, and Bush.
I gave Governor Davis a full year and a half jump on the opportunity to save
California ratepayers Billions of dollars and have cleaner air quality.
He chose to spend about $60,000,000 per day on energy just going to waste.
California families will be paying this $24 Billion dollar debt long after your
children have passed through college age.
Even after I sent Governor Davis the final letter I wrote to him
converting the wasted energy he is buying to wasted money #4, his office wrote
to me that his schedule could not accommodate a meeting.
Up to $60,000,000. per day in wasted rate payer money to purchase
energy just going to waste, causing smog, respiratory illness and death
in our children, and Governor Davis doesn't have time for a meeting to
solve the problem.
He did appoint the PUC and ISO from energy industry friends, perhaps he
is to close to want to find a solution to your money flowing out of the
State then out of the country.
The Clean Air Act mandates the Utilities to use "The Best Available
Technology", it also provides the right for an individual to sue.
The bar has been raised on "The Best Available Technology".
Your Attorney General has sworn an oath to protect your Health and the
Environment.
I have sent this information to every State Attorney General, along with
every Governor, the entire U.S. Senate, Congress, the Presidents
council on Science & Technology, The DOE & EPA and Environmental
Organizations everywhere, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney.
The Nations Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and Envirohealthaction,
http://www.envirohealthaction.org, have stated that chronic disease is the number one
killer in the United States; accounting for 4 out of 5 deaths.
They have stated on their web sites that air & water pollution from
power plants is the main cause.
Encourage friends, patients, and their families suffering and dying from
chronic disease's to contact their Attorney General to file a massive
class action suit.
Perhaps a massive class action suit for loss of quality of living and
wrongful death from families with members that have died from a chronic
disease and from parents of Asthmatic children will get their attention.
God knows I have tried since being blessed with being the one to bring
this Invention to Market for the betterment of Mankind and the
Environment.
Spoon feeding the Nations leaders with this simple solution for over a
year now isn't doing it, I need your help.
I have included the front section on my patent, where you first "knock"
prior art, the "Objects & Advantages" of my invention over prior art,
the "Summary", and one of my "Main Claims".
Look for the part where I point out that Solar & Wind Energy is just
more Energy going to waste. This is the biggest energy scam yet.
Utilities do not turn down their generators just because the Sun came
out or the Wind picked up.
They are still wasting the same amount of Natural Resources and building
the exact same amount of poisonous pollution during this clean energy
event.
As the load demand on the grid goes down during the solar event the
"surplus" energy going to waste is increased by the exact same amount.
This is a little hard to see on the ISO curves during the hot summer
months but it will be quite obvious to you the rest of the year.
Why? The Utilities are paid for every single electron produced in their
overall rate structure, whether we use it or not.
Think about all your family money going to buy wasted energy and air
pollution while Governor Davis cuts program after program to pay for his
long term energy contacts, and awards his Energy Industry Buddies with
key jobs in the PUC and ISO.
Why? Now that's the $24 Billion Dollar question.
If you would prefer the attachments by fax or mail send me a note to
bps1 [at] gis.net
Good luck with this information. You can make California Air and Water
cleaner for future generations by using all the energy we create instead
of this sinful waste to line the pockets of Foreign Corporations that
now own 90 % of our Utilities.
Lee A. Hebert
President & Inventor September 10, 2002
This is about the biggest story your going to see for some time on the
Energy Crisis, Carbon Dioxide, Acid Rain, Global Warming, Smog,
Pollution, and renewable energy just going to waste.
My invention will power a home during the "peak" with Energy that would
otherwise just go to waste during the "off peak".
By using "off peak" energy this will reduce CO2 and power plant pollution
by 10,950 lbs. (5.5 tons) per home, per year, every year.
We do not need to build more power plants. California alone is wasting the
equivalent energy that 500 to 700 (500 megawatt) power plants can produce
in one hour.
Go to http://www.caiso.com, tab on "system conditions", enlarge the graph, add up
the 24 hours of "Surplus" energy in megawatts, and divide by 500 megawatts,
which is a huge power plant.
All sources of energy are represented in the "surplus" including all forms of
"off peak" Green Energy.
The following Governor's Energy Offices are in direct contact with me on my
Energy Saving Invention. Pataki, Warner, Swift, Shaheen, and Bush.
I gave Governor Davis a full year and a half jump on the opportunity to save
California ratepayers Billions of dollars and have cleaner air quality.
He chose to spend about $60,000,000 per day on energy just going to waste.
California families will be paying this $24 Billion dollar debt long after your
children have passed through college age.
Even after I sent Governor Davis the final letter I wrote to him
converting the wasted energy he is buying to wasted money #4, his office wrote
to me that his schedule could not accommodate a meeting.
Up to $60,000,000. per day in wasted rate payer money to purchase
energy just going to waste, causing smog, respiratory illness and death
in our children, and Governor Davis doesn't have time for a meeting to
solve the problem.
He did appoint the PUC and ISO from energy industry friends, perhaps he
is to close to want to find a solution to your money flowing out of the
State then out of the country.
The Clean Air Act mandates the Utilities to use "The Best Available
Technology", it also provides the right for an individual to sue.
The bar has been raised on "The Best Available Technology".
Your Attorney General has sworn an oath to protect your Health and the
Environment.
I have sent this information to every State Attorney General, along with
every Governor, the entire U.S. Senate, Congress, the Presidents
council on Science & Technology, The DOE & EPA and Environmental
Organizations everywhere, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney.
The Nations Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and Envirohealthaction,
http://www.envirohealthaction.org, have stated that chronic disease is the number one
killer in the United States; accounting for 4 out of 5 deaths.
They have stated on their web sites that air & water pollution from
power plants is the main cause.
Encourage friends, patients, and their families suffering and dying from
chronic disease's to contact their Attorney General to file a massive
class action suit.
Perhaps a massive class action suit for loss of quality of living and
wrongful death from families with members that have died from a chronic
disease and from parents of Asthmatic children will get their attention.
God knows I have tried since being blessed with being the one to bring
this Invention to Market for the betterment of Mankind and the
Environment.
Spoon feeding the Nations leaders with this simple solution for over a
year now isn't doing it, I need your help.
I have included the front section on my patent, where you first "knock"
prior art, the "Objects & Advantages" of my invention over prior art,
the "Summary", and one of my "Main Claims".
Look for the part where I point out that Solar & Wind Energy is just
more Energy going to waste. This is the biggest energy scam yet.
Utilities do not turn down their generators just because the Sun came
out or the Wind picked up.
They are still wasting the same amount of Natural Resources and building
the exact same amount of poisonous pollution during this clean energy
event.
As the load demand on the grid goes down during the solar event the
"surplus" energy going to waste is increased by the exact same amount.
This is a little hard to see on the ISO curves during the hot summer
months but it will be quite obvious to you the rest of the year.
Why? The Utilities are paid for every single electron produced in their
overall rate structure, whether we use it or not.
Think about all your family money going to buy wasted energy and air
pollution while Governor Davis cuts program after program to pay for his
long term energy contacts, and awards his Energy Industry Buddies with
key jobs in the PUC and ISO.
Why? Now that's the $24 Billion Dollar question.
If you would prefer the attachments by fax or mail send me a note to
bps1 [at] gis.net
Good luck with this information. You can make California Air and Water
cleaner for future generations by using all the energy we create instead
of this sinful waste to line the pockets of Foreign Corporations that
now own 90 % of our Utilities.
Lee A. Hebert
President & Inventor September 10, 2002
This is about the biggest story your going to see for some time on the
Energy Crisis, Carbon Dioxide, Acid Rain, Global Warming, Smog,
Pollution, and renewable energy just going to waste.
My invention will power a home during the "peak" with Energy that would
otherwise just go to waste during the "off peak".
By using "off peak" energy this will reduce CO2 and power plant pollution
by 10,950 lbs. (5.5 tons) per home, per year, every year.
We do not need to build more power plants. California alone is wasting the
equivalent energy that 500 to 700 (500 megawatt) power plants can produce
in one hour.
Go to http://www.caiso.com, tab on "system conditions", enlarge the graph, add up
the 24 hours of "Surplus" energy in megawatts, and divide by 500 megawatts,
which is a huge power plant.
All sources of energy are represented in the "surplus" including all forms of
"off peak" Green Energy.
The following Governor's Energy Offices are in direct contact with me on my
Energy Saving Invention. Pataki, Warner, Swift, Shaheen, and Bush.
I gave Governor Davis a full year and a half jump on the opportunity to save
California ratepayers Billions of dollars and have cleaner air quality.
He chose to spend about $60,000,000 per day on energy just going to waste.
California families will be paying this $24 Billion dollar debt long after your
children have passed through college age.
Even after I sent Governor Davis the final letter I wrote to him
converting the wasted energy he is buying to wasted money #4, his office wrote
to me that his schedule could not accommodate a meeting.
Up to $60,000,000. per day in wasted rate payer money to purchase
energy just going to waste, causing smog, respiratory illness and death
in our children, and Governor Davis doesn't have time for a meeting to
solve the problem.
He did appoint the PUC and ISO from energy industry friends, perhaps he
is to close to want to find a solution to your money flowing out of the
State then out of the country.
The Clean Air Act mandates the Utilities to use "The Best Available
Technology", it also provides the right for an individual to sue.
The bar has been raised on "The Best Available Technology".
Your Attorney General has sworn an oath to protect your Health and the
Environment.
I have sent this information to every State Attorney General, along with
every Governor, the entire U.S. Senate, Congress, the Presidents
council on Science & Technology, The DOE & EPA and Environmental
Organizations everywhere, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney.
The Nations Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and Envirohealthaction,
http://www.envirohealthaction.org, have stated that chronic disease is the number one
killer in the United States; accounting for 4 out of 5 deaths.
They have stated on their web sites that air & water pollution from
power plants is the main cause.
Encourage friends, patients, and their families suffering and dying from
chronic disease's to contact their Attorney General to file a massive
class action suit.
Perhaps a massive class action suit for loss of quality of living and
wrongful death from families with members that have died from a chronic
disease and from parents of Asthmatic children will get their attention.
God knows I have tried since being blessed with being the one to bring
this Invention to Market for the betterment of Mankind and the
Environment.
Spoon feeding the Nations leaders with this simple solution for over a
year now isn't doing it, I need your help.
I have included the front section on my patent, where you first "knock"
prior art, the "Objects & Advantages" of my invention over prior art,
the "Summary", and one of my "Main Claims".
Look for the part where I point out that Solar & Wind Energy is just
more Energy going to waste. This is the biggest energy scam yet.
Utilities do not turn down their generators just because the Sun came
out or the Wind picked up.
They are still wasting the same amount of Natural Resources and building
the exact same amount of poisonous pollution during this clean energy
event.
As the load demand on the grid goes down during the solar event the
"surplus" energy going to waste is increased by the exact same amount.
This is a little hard to see on the ISO curves during the hot summer
months but it will be quite obvious to you the rest of the year.
Why? The Utilities are paid for every single electron produced in their
overall rate structure, whether we use it or not.
Think about all your family money going to buy wasted energy and air
pollution while Governor Davis cuts program after program to pay for his
long term energy contacts, and awards his Energy Industry Buddies with
key jobs in the PUC and ISO.
Why? Now that's the $24 Billion Dollar question.
If you would prefer the attachments by fax or mail send me a note to
bps1 [at] gis.net
Good luck with this information. You can make California Air and Water
cleaner for future generations by using all the energy we create instead
of this sinful waste to line the pockets of Foreign Corporations that
now own 90 % of our Utilities.
Lee A. Hebert
President & Inventor September 10, 2002