CA powerdyke stands at Arnie's side...

Just because someone is gay, doesn't mean they have empathy for the people. Kennedy apparently prefers to support powerful telecommunication companies over the interests of the average person:

See SF Chronicle 12/01/05:

And her tenure on the Public Utilities Commission, of which she has been a member for the past two years, illustrated that she is business-friendly -- consumer groups described their distaste Wednesday for her decisions on the regulation of telephone companies and energy utilities.

Describing Kennedy as a "foaming-at-the-mouth zealot'' when it came to supporting business over consumer interests, Michael Shames, executive director of the San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network, said he was delighted Kennedy would be leaving the commission.

"She is as fervent a free-market, pro-business conservative as anyone who has been on the commission in the last 20 years,'' Shames said.

At the PUC, Kennedy led the effort to suspend a landmark bill of rights for telephone users that many telecommunications companies opposed, and she has backed the mergers of communications giants SBC and AT&T and of Verizon and

REMEMBER ROY COHN!