Message-ID: <16456037.1075843076760.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 07:26:00 -0700 (PDT) From: richard.shapiro@enron.com To: sandra.mccubbin@enron.com Subject: Re: Possible Messages on Legislation in California Cc: jeff.dasovich@enron.com, steven.kean@enron.com, james.steffes@enron.com, rob.bradley@enron.com, mpalmer@enron.com, karen.denne@enron.com, mona.petrochko@enron.com, susan.mara@enron.com, paul.kaufman@enron.com, samuel.wehn@enron.com, tim.belden@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: jeff.dasovich@enron.com, steven.kean@enron.com, james.steffes@enron.com, rob.bradley@enron.com, mpalmer@enron.com, karen.denne@enron.com, mona.petrochko@enron.com, susan.mara@enron.com, paul.kaufman@enron.com, samuel.wehn@enron.com, tim.belden@enron.com X-From: Richard Shapiro X-To: Sandra McCubbin X-cc: Jeff Dasovich, Steven J Kean, James D Steffes, Rob Bradley, mpalmer@enron.com, Karen Denne, Mona L Petrochko, Susan J Mara, Paul Kaufman, Samuel Wehn, Tim Belden X-bcc: X-Folder: \Jeff_Dasovich_Dec2000\Notes Folders\California crisis X-Origin: DASOVICH-J X-FileName: jdasovic.nsf We need to all talk Tuesday morning ASAP - I am frankly sick and tired of self-delusion in the face of a stark and bleak reality in Sacramento- As a Democrat, it is clear to me that the Democrats from Gray on down are a lost cause( their response, from a public policy perspective, is shameful in its shortsidedness and contemptible in its lack of thoughtfulness and intellect- the Democrat's response in Cal. makes me ashamed to call myself a Democrat) and the Republicans too small a minority in Ca. to make a difference- From my vantage point ,nothing good and some( potentially much) bad came out of the three bills passed. We have a huge uphill battle coming in the next session and the prospects of further thoughtless retrenchment on the part of the Governor and legislature very high- to begin the preperation for that struggle, we first have to be honest with ourselves and end any petty bickering internally on intrepretations of brutally clear events and oucomes, events and outcomes which are the equivalent of getting hit upside the head by a 2 by 4, i.e; that usually does'nt require intrepretation or discussion as to whether it hurt... We end the self-delusion starting on Tuesday. Jeff- please arrange the call - all are invited . Sandra McCubbin 09/02/2000 01:44 PM To: Jeff Dasovich/SFO/EES@EES cc: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/HOU/EES@EES, James D Steffes/HOU/EES@EES, Rob Bradley/Corp/Enron@ENRON, mpalmer@enron.com, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mona L Petrochko/SFO/EES@EES, Susan J Mara/SFO/EES@EES, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT Dave Parquet, Samuel Wehn/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: Possible Messages on Legislation in California since the siting legislation created only a program that is voluntary and not in place of the existing laws, and we have a committment from the legislature, the CEC and the govenor's office to take another shot in January, as they know that this legislation is flawed, too many conflicting interests trying to solve a complex problem in too short a time, I feel this is too harsh...we have already started the process of creating new legislation, that will be as close to a consensus as possible for next session..this legislation did not hurt us, and, some companies feel that they can use the processes. We have to keep in mind that with the knowledge that there will be major reorganization legislation next year, we don't want to offend the friends that we have in Sacramento, particularly the Republicans who were the ones who insisted on an expedited siting bill