| May 2001 | May 2001 - Consumer advocate with the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Heller said today: "Internal Enron e-mails we have obtained confirm that Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with then-Enron head Ken Lay at the ...Consumer advocate with the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Heller said today: "Internal Enron e-mails we have obtained confirm that Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with then-Enron head Ken Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting.  Show more  Show lesswww.commondreams.org/news2003/1006-01.htm
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| May 17, 2001 - On May 17, 2001, future Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan met with Enron CEO Ken Lay, at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, at a meeting convened for Enron to present its "Comprehensive Solution for ...On May 17, 2001, future Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan met with Enron CEO Ken Lay, at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, at a meeting convened for Enron to present its "Comprehensive Solution for California," which called for an end to Federal and state investigations into Enron's role in the California energy crisis. Show more Show lessen.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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| May 26, 2001 - Energy executive Kenneth Lay, head of powerful Enron Corp., quietly courted Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Riordan, Michael Milken and other ... At the meeting, Enron representatives circulated a four-page position paper titled "Comprehensive Solution for California," which was ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/26/MN209410.DTL
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| Jun 2001 | Jun 2001 - JUNE 2001 - Wanting to milk the California energy-cow dry, Ken Lay of Enron held a secret conference with California Republicans to "preserve deregulation" and perpetuate the manufactured "crisis". Attending by special request was Arnold Schwarzenegger, an actor who harbored ...www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=110&topic_id=80
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| 2002 | 2002 - At the time, White House political guru Karl Rove was quoted as expressing his delight that Bush family friend Arnold Schwarzenegger might wind up winning the governor's mansion in Sacramento in 2002. But Schwarzenegger did not run.Yet by carefully massaging the story, the Bush White House managed to deflect criticism and blame away from its political cronies and toward California's Democratic governor, Gray Davis. At the time, White House political guru Karl Rove was quoted as expressing his delight that Bush family friend Arnold Schwarzenegger might wind up winning the governor's mansion in Sacramento in 2002. But Schwarzenegger did not run. Show more Show lesswww.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=394
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| Feb 2002 | Feb 7, 2002 - Suddenly, the Enron scandal has exploded into prominence in the race for California governor, sending candidates into contortions as they try to ... Lay presented Riordan, financier Michael Milken, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other luminaries with a four-page plan calling for ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/105976467.html?dids=105976467:105976467&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type...Enron...
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| May 2002 | May 29, 2002 - California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat up for re-election in November, blames Enron and other energy companies for the crisis. ... The recall Of California Gov. Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger...centrist. But his mishandling of the electricity crisis called into ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-86425506.html?refid=gnews_209
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| Jul 2002 | Jul 17, 2002 - As Williams riffed about corporate greed at Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, he instructed members of the audience to stop talking to their brokers and ... Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he may yet run for governor of California. Schwarzenegger, a GOP activist, spoke Monday in Boise, Idaho, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/138396861.html?dids=138396861:138396861&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+17%2C+2002&author=PAT...Wire...
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| Aug 2002 | Aug 11, 2002 - I'm coming back from the future to the present and I'm coming back to stop a huge conspiracy -- Enron," he said with a grin Thursday at "Hummer Homecoming," a five-day event in South Bend, Ind., for enthusiasts of the macho machines made in neighboring Mishawaka. Schwarzenegger ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DSNB/lib00496,0F55BAA1B1C5E438.html
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| Oct 2002 | Oct 27, 2002 - Experts, State Officials Say Enron Had Limited Role in California Power Crisis. ... find Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News articles. By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento ... Schwarzenegger: Total Amnesia? Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy Crisis, Says Consumer Group ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-93504380.html?refid=gnews_209
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| Dec 2002 | Dec 1, 2002 - California electricity regulators had subpoenaed Enron for information about its trading practices, and Attorney General Bill Lockyer was ... In one secret meeting in Los Angeles last year, he sought to enlist luminaries such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Milken and Richard Riordan ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/12/01/MN70177.DTL
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| Mar 2003 | Mar 30, 2003 - LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Newly released federal documents suggest that the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale helped Enron Corp. ... ... 15 (Xinhua) -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County on Saturday following the loss of at least... ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7080986.html?refid=gnews_209
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| Jun 2003 | Jun 27, 2003 - Candidate John Kerry was put on the spot this week when it was reported that Enron founder Ken Lay has been on the board of his wife's ... Buddy Ebsen, formerly of "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones," has been admitted to a California hospital for treatment of an undisclosed ... dir.salon.com/story/ent/col/fix/2003/06/27/fri/index.html
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| Jul 2003 | Jul 24, 2003 - We fought two wars. (Playing right into Gray Davis' hands.) And Dick Cheney's friends at Enron "gamed" the energy market and ripped off the state for billions. So you can see the problem: Gray Davis. And the obvious solution: A Viennese weightlifter. Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/374851221.html?dids=374851221:374851221&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul...2003...California...
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| Aug 2003 | Aug 7, 2003 - ... ... and its way-too-cozy relationship with Enron and the other energy companies -- that have gotten California where it is." ... He endorsed Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling him "a charismatic leader." Huffington also appeared to take a swipe at his former wife in his ... www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/07/huffington.recall/index.html
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| Aug 9, 2003 - Let's save a lot of time and money and just hand the governorship of the state of California to Schwarzenegger. There is no way that a celebrity with Schwarzenegger's name recognition, broad smile and ability to recite well-prepared scripts before television audiences can lose. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/382587491.html?dids=382587491:382587491&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+09%2C+2003&author=&pub...
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| Aug 11, 2003 - According to William Bradley, the LA Weekly's sharp political columnist who wrote about Enron for the American Prospect, the meeting revolved around Lay's plans to "preserve deregulation" in California. The LA Times noted that Lay was seeking the support of Schwarzenegger and the other ... dir.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/08/11/enron/print.html
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| Aug 11, 2003 - It's no surprise that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is using vague generalities when he talks about his plans for California, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "He did not know he was going to run for governor," Rohrabacher ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/11/MN269103.DTL
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| Aug 13, 2003 - It is true that California has paid a particularly heavy price for the machinations of Enron and other energy companies. How dare Arnold Schwarzenegger or any Republican now ignore the well-documented gaming of the California energy market by Bush's Texas cronies, many of whom landed ... dir.salon.com/story/opinion/scheer/2003/08/13/recall/index.html
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| Aug 13, 2003 - "And it wasn't Gray Davis who held secret meetings with Enron executives. Or who appointed energy company-friendly members to the FERC -- members who looked the other way while Enron and the other energy swindlers fleeced California, who refused to impose wholesale energy price caps ... dir.salon.com/story/opinion/conason/2003/08/13/arianna/index.html
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| Aug 14, 2003 - The name Enron resonates in California because the failed energy giant -- which collapsed amid reports of shady accounting -- was accused of taking advantage of the state's energy crisis in 2001 to make money. "Clearly, Schwarzenegger is a very good friend of the Bush administration," ... www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/14/huffington/
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| Aug 15, 2003 - Chairman Kenneth Lay. She said Schwarzenegger and the onetime energy titan had met at the hotel in May 2001, in the midst of a California energy crisis fueled by Enron and other companies' market manipulation. "Arnold Schwarzenegger has positioned himself as the people's governor, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/384557231.html?dids=384557231:384557231&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT...Joe...Schwarzenegger...
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| Aug 15, 2003 - In his meeting with reporters, Schwarzenegger, one of 135 candidates on the Oct. 7 ballot to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, also said he did not remember meeting with former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay as California struggled to pull from its energy crisis two years ago. ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94821,00.html
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| Aug 17, 2003 - Lay, and other Enron representatives at the meeting, handed out a four-page document to Schwarzenegger, Riordan and Milken titled “Comprehensive Solution for California,” which called for an end to federal and state investigations into Enron's role in the California energy crisis and ... www.commondreams.org/views03/0817-07.htm
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| Aug 18, 2003 - Gray Davis is seeking counsel from Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger is bringing in Warren Buffett (Aug. 14). ... Maybe we'd be better off with "Aahnold" or whomever, but I don't see how anyone can fix the huge California fiscal problem anytime soon. Everyone seems to be looking ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/385866871.html?dids=385866871:385866871&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+18%2C+2003...pub...California...
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| Aug 24, 2003 - A Schwarzenegger spokesman went on to hold out the prospect that the would-be governor might well back 187 again should the initiative - largely thrown out by the courts - find its way back on the California ballot. There was just one little thing. Notwithstanding his vote nine years ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,0FED1970A7C4BBF1.html
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| Sep 2003 | Sep 7, 2003 - "Let me tell you a personal story," [Arnold Schwarzenegger] says to the 60 or so board members of the California Chamber of Commerce on Friday morning, ... speech -- something about Schwarzenegger's brief (and unrecollected) meeting with Kenneth Lay, the disgraced former Enron chief. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/399148591.html?dids=399148591:399148591&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep...pub...
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| Sep 12, 2003 - With McClintock and Schwarzenegger splitting the Republican vote, the next governor of California will be Cruz Bustamante, a Davis clone who by ... Enron Corp. gave Davis an ultimatum -- pay ridiculous rates or suffer blackouts. President Bush refused to interfere, even though he knew ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/BCAB/lib00760,104EA705C4A13777.html
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| Sep 18, 2003 - ... ... to the deficit" in California and the administration's favoritism of Enron and other energy companies over electricity users in California. ... He also took aim at the leading Republican replacement candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and his suggestion Monday that law enforcement ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/406857631.html?dids=406857631:406857631&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date...in...
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| Oct 2003 | Oct 1, 2003 - In a late bid for business support, Davis signed a major package Tuesday to reform the state's workers' compensation system that proponents say could save California employers more than $4 billion a year. Schwarzenegger called the reform "bogus" but he had little to say about what he ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-8135860.html
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| Oct 3, 2003 - The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California for two consecutive days; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting. "You don't meet with America's most well-known corporate crook in the middle of California's ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-24587686.html
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| Oct 5, 2003 - It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off. ... www.alternet.org/story/16902/arnold's_enron_secret/
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| Oct 8, 2003 - Schwarzenegger has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001 he met with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay and convicted stock swindler Mike Milken in a hotel room in Los Angeles. The meeting was allegedly part of a plan to recall Gov. Gray Davis and replace him with someone who could make the legal ... www.vivelecanada.ca/article/214631531-schwarzeneggerenron-followup
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| Oct 9, 2003 - Last Friday a series of internal Enron E-mails, released by the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, a California consumer advocacy group, confirmed that Schwarzenegger attended the meeting and that the gathering was part of an Enron campaign to press California leaders for more ... www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2003/10/09/2003-10-09_arnold_s_blackout_about_enron.html
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| Oct 11, 2003 - Florio also said he was suspicious of Schwarzenegger's idea because former Enron Corp. Chairman and CEO Ken Lay met with the actor and others in the spring of 2001, when Lay was pushing deregulation in California. Schwarzenegger has said he doesn't remember details of the meeting. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/11/MN20927.DTL&type=printable
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| Oct 12, 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger won the governorship on his movie star fame and thereby helped complete a successful Republican power grab. ... And just how did you let Enron rip you off, California? That's where your real anger should be. John Wesley Hall Jr. Little Rock, Ark. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/422860671.html?dids=422860671:422860671&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+12%2C+2003&author=&pub=Los...
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| Oct 14, 2003 - Heller also cited a meeting at the height of the energy crisis in 2001, convened by then-Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay with California business and political leaders including Schwarzenegger, to drum up support for deregulation. Schwarzenegger "took a lot more from the secret meeting he ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-8881669.html
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| Oct 14, 2003 - elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is indeed interested in partnerships to effect positive change, he should consider providing informal "open forums" inviting ... It provides goods and services that a civil society requires be distributed by someone with higher ethical standards than Enron. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,0FE3321555246A3C.html
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| Oct 16, 2003 - Palast writes: "It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion." Palast's understanding of historical context is ... www.laweekly.com/2003-10-16/news/pluggging-the-latest-conspiracy-theory/
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| Oct 16, 2003 - Having positioned himself as the candidate with no ties to special interests, California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is now facing disclosures that suggest otherwise. A taxpayer watchdog group just released a series of Enron e-mails ... www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=16142
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| Oct 19, 2003 - Davis, to begin with, is an autistic centrist in the Democratic Leadership Council mode who has governed California for the last five years as a ... Here in San Diego, where I live and the recall originated, the Schwarzenegger blitzkrieg seemed to suck anger out of the clear blue sky. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/19/INGIV2BVIT1.DTL
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| Nov 2003 | Nov 10, 2003 - elect Arnold Schwarzenegger as an ally, then seemed to discard him just as quickly, it raised a question that is now ricocheting through the capital: ... At the height of the California energy crisis, when Enron Corp. was riding high and before any energy company executives had been ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/443467391.html?dids=443467391:443467391&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT...California%3B...is...Schwarzenegger...
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| Dec 2003 | Dec 10, 2003 - Strangely, or not so strangely, Schwarzenegger has apparently overlooked the $8 billion to $9 billion owed to California by Enron and has stated that if the $15 billion bond issues he proposes is not passed, he has no backup plan and that California will be without any funds. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MS/lib00329,0FF601D79B8F7A13.html
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| Jan 2004 | Jan 9, 2004 - In one of the hundreds of unexpected turn of events that have shadowed Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) over the past three years, ... "And now most of my energies will go to selling California." Schwarzenegger urged citizens to vote "yes" on his measures on a March ballot, ... www.forbes.com/2004/01/09/cx_dd_0109faceweek.html
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| Feb 2004 | Feb 4, 2004 - Of the money Schwarzenegger controlled, $22.8 million went to promote the wealthy actor's candidacy while another $4.2 million advocated removing Davis. "We think it was money well spent," said Dave Gilliard, a Republican consultant whose committee, Rescue California, spent another ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,100874398413ECCB.html
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| Mar 2004 | Mar 21, 2004 - It was officially "scored" as a revenue gain for budget purposes, but in fact it was a very short-term, very high-interest loan from corporate California. Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor on the promise to straighten out state finances and has often alluded to the $22 billion debt ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,10179DBE2FF86832.html
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| Apr 2004 | Apr 9, 2004 - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "welcomes any federal prosecution that brings to justice individuals or corporations that preyed upon ... Although Reliant is the first corporation to face criminal charges in the California power crisis, three former Enron power traders are facing ... www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040409-9999-1n9energy.html
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| May 2004 | May 5, 2004 - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison (a lobbying force behind the first deregulation debacle) want to allow energy producers to sell power ... It's not the total deregulation, they both argue, under which all ratepayers were invited to bargain with the likes of Enron. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/05/EDG9B6FM1S1.DTL
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| Jun 2004 | Jun 30, 2004 - The recent release of tapes in which Enron traders spoke gleefully of exploiting "Grandma Millie" and other Californians has prompted an uproar. Observers of the long-running energy disputes noted that Schwarzenegger made clear in his letter that he supported efforts by California Atty ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/657056001.html?dids=657056001:657056001&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date...Schwarzenegger...
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| Jul 2004 | Jul 6, 2004 - Schwarzenegger has remained silent despite the taped conversations of Enron traders that provided irrefutable proof that Enron deliberately defrauded Californians of an estimated $8.9 billion during the "energy crisis" of 2000-01. It is not surprising because the huge California ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MS/lib00329,103AE0B5F8024FBF.html
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| Jul 9, 2004 - California has a special interest in this. Some may have forgotten about Enron and the energy crisis of 2000-01, but we have not. Last month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has kept a relatively low profile on energy issues since replacing Davis, wrote the Federal Energy Regulatory ... www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040709/news_lz1ed9top.html
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| Aug 2004 | Aug 24, 2004 - Does Schwarzenegger also have what it takes to take on big business as part of his fix for California? In particular, will he take on ... The apparent attempts to corner the market is similar to the recent outrageous gouging of California consumers by electric companies such as Enron. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2004/08/24/EDG0R8D6261.DTL
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| Sep 2004 | Sep 5, 2004 - Arnold Schwarzenegger and pitted it against consumer advocates. The company, like Schwarzenegger, insists California will need more power plants if it hopes to ... "We were right in the middle of this when the economy collapsed, Enron collapsed, the market collapsed," Macias said. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/05/BUGKB8JIR41.DTL
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| Oct 2004 | Oct 13, 2004 - Schwarzenegger offers CEOs who come here a photo with him in the cigar tent outside his Capitol office. [Kenny Guinn] pledges that manufacturers who abandon California for Nevada can pay their employees in poker chips. Upping the ante, Romney promises turncoat CEOs an honorary ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/711445781.html?dids=711445781:711445781&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+13%2C+2004&author...
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| Nov 2004 | Nov 19, 2004 - ... ... for Californians to allow their elected officeholders, no matter how charismatic they may be, to continue this Enron-like shell game. ... Schwarzenegger shows no signs of backing away from his no-new-tax pledge. "The people of California don't like to be taxed," he said the day ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,106835F6881AD7B7.html
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| Dec 2004 | Dec 17, 2004 - When the Enron debacle ushered in an era of scandals, CalPERS's leadership made it an instant star of the corporate-reform movement. ... "This is payback by the big corporate special interests who fight our reform efforts and their ally Governor Schwarzenegger," asserts Democrat Phil ... www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1009728,00.html
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| Jan 2005 | Jan 31, 2005 - Highlighting Lay's connections to the two Bush administrations, the movie even goes so far as to suggest Lay and Enron may have been behind the election of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The picture relies heavily on Congressional hearings, the astute insight of the two Fortune ... www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/movies/3005535
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| Feb 2005 | Feb 7, 2005 - Peel back the budget wrapping on his plan, though, and you will find the governor's real agenda: the California prong of a national attack on ... CalPERS and the teachers retirement fund lost more than $1 billion in the WorldCom and Enron frauds. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says getting ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/789597541.html?dids=789597541:789597541&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+07%2C+2005&author=Phil...
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| Mar 2005 | Mar 16, 2005 - Indeed, for the past half-decade, the two Democrats who have consistently taken on the abuses of Enron-age capitalism haven't been senators, ... Chastising Schwarzenegger for proposing to curtail admissions of qualified students to the University of California and for refusing to make ... www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38566-2005Mar15.html
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| Apr 2005 | Apr 29, 2005 - Among them is former California Gov. Gray Davis, who was arguably deposed by the shenanigans undertaken in the name of Enron Chairman Ken Lay and chief executive Jeff Skilling. With a dose of incredulity that humanizes him, Davis rips the Federal Energy Commission (whose chairman owed ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/29/DDGIDCGG961.DTL
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| May 2005 | May 1, 2005 - Gibney's track record indicates that he's a liberal Democrat, and in "Enron," he includes footage and facts that link President Bush to Lay, and link Bush and Lay to California's energy crisis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor. But Gibney prefers viewers (and ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/01/PKGJTCFPVG1.DTL&type=printable
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| Jun 2005 | Jun 11, 2005 - In a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Davis said he made mistakes in buying power at fixed, inflated rates in hope of protecting consumers in the wake of a wanton manipulation of the state energy market by traders from the Enron Corp. and other energy companies. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,10AAEDB264B90297.html
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| Jul 2005 | Jul 20, 2005 - By this same reasoning, former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay would have made a fine US energy secretary, as long as he made decisions that weren't ... Clearly, Schwarzenegger isn't the first California politician to mix his private business with the people's business; he is only the most ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,10BD0E2D9D0BF578.html
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| Aug 2005 | Aug 29, 2005 - But the rolling blackouts for some half-million customers in Southern California sound like a bad movie no one wants to see again. Remember the wreckage of the energy crisis four years ago? There were daily brownout warnings, corporate bankruptcies, price gouging by Enron and soaring ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/29/EDG4PDMTIQ1.DTL
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| Sep 2005 | Sep 19, 2005 - ... ''Public employee union members should not be forced to contribute to causes, candidates and controversial issues that they don't believe in,'' Schwarzenegger said. ``That isn'ta contribution, it's a tax.'' Republicans have tried for years to pass such measures in California and ... results.factiva.com/index/index.aspx?ref=MHLD000020050920e19j00007
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| Oct 2005 | Oct 26, 2005 - California never had a supply-related blackout before deregulation. In this light it is inexcusable for the state's officials to continue to promote and plan for further direct access. Yet the Schwarzenegger administration, abetted by the Public Utilities Commission and the Energy ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,10D814F56FC32C40.html
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| Nov 2005 | Nov 3, 2005 - Remember, Schwarzenegger became governor in a recall election which came about mainly because Enron had ripped off California after the deregulation of the utilities; and voters mistakenly blamed Gray Davis. It was not a well-publicized fact at the time of the recall, that Davis and ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/LCRB/lib00782,10DA856241455CF8.html
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| Dec 2005 | Dec 8, 2005 - Arnold Schwarzenegger relegated to opening act. Democrats politely cheered Schwarzenegger before giving Davis a more boisterous reception as they ... He said that he felt more vindicated by the documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," which suggests California was abused by ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SB/lib00166,10E644E9B6C55108.html
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| Jan 2006 | Jan 26, 2006 - Enron was a number of businesses. It was most famously an energy trader and played a part in the California energy crisis in terms of multiplying prices for Californians. This caused blackouts in the California energy crisis that subsequently led to Arnold Schwarzenegger's ascendance ... www.alternet.org/story/31273/judgment_day_for_enron/
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| Feb 2006 | Feb 21, 2006 - It would take a book - a very big book - to catalog all of the Enron-like stunts that California officials have used to make income and outgo balance on paper. The state still has a massive budget deficit and the Schwarzenegger administration projects that it will become even bigger ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-12987719.html
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| Mar 2006 | Mar 6, 2006 - "He was using Enron like a damn ATM machine ." --Paula Rieker, former Enron managing director of investor relations, recalling in court on Feb. ... California Treasurer Philip Angelides hopes to take on Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's November gubernatorial election and sits on ... www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_10/c3974015.htm
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| Apr 2006 | Apr 25, 2006 - Schwarzenegger ordered the California Energy Commission on Monday to launch an investigation into whether oil companies are engaging in price gouging, as the price of ... "But we can't ignore the possibility of Enron-style ripoffs like the ones that have victimized people before." ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/VDBB/lib00675,1113DEA12D8A3018.html
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| May 2006 | May 26, 2006 - At the height of the crisis in early 2001, Lay traveled to California, urging residents to swallow higher rates as a means of curbing energy usage. He quietly tried to rally key Californians to the cause of deregulation, including future Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Enron became such an ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-16980313.html
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| Jun 2006 | Jun 19, 2006 - Even as Schwarzenegger publicly moves to the left politically this campaign season, watchdog groups say his administration remains protective of the business interests ... Another post-Enron change was an attempt to better monitor what out-of-state accountants are doing in California. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1062353101.html?dids=1062353101:1062353101&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date...to...Enron...
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| Jul 2006 | Jul 28, 2006 - This is not to exempt Schwarzenegger from criticism. Among the many grand promises the governor made during his reformer period was his 2004 ... firm regulatory framework -- one that would give power plant builders confidence they could get a return on their investment in California. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/1085719791.html?dids=1085719791:1085719791&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+28%2C+2006...
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| Aug 2006 | Aug 30, 2006 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and other lawmakers are haggling over the final details of AB 32, a sweeping measure meant to establish California as the world leader in reducing the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Schwarzenegger wants not just hard ... www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060830/news_lz1ed30top.html
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| Sep 2006 | Sep 28, 2006 - Less looked at is the race for governor of California where the incumbent, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is running against Phil ... If California was Enron not only would Gray Davis, the recalled former governor, have been thrown out of office, but he and Angelides would be sharing ... www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/syuhas_20060928.html
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| Oct 2006 | Oct 6, 2006 - "For working Americans in 2001, the scandal surrounding Enron challenged their trust in the markets," Rep. ... In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill that goes into effect Jan. 1 to make it illegal to impersonate customers to obtain phone records. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1141294701.html?dids=1141294701:1141294701&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct...S...
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| Nov 2006 | Nov 17, 2006 - In the meantime, two former Enron executives are going to prison. They are getting sharply reduced sentences for helping prosecutors convict ... In California, Schwarzenegger carried independent voters handily. He reclaimed the center. Schwarzenegger did two things President Bush has ... edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/17/sitroom.01.html
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| Jan 2007 | Jan 24, 2007 - Riverside County prosecutors are seeking to have Duncan extradited to California immediately to be tried in the Martinez case. ... News Apr. 10--David B. Duncan, the top Arthur Andersen...yesterday to cooperate with federal prosecutors probing the Enron meltdown. ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-158244698.html?refid=gnews_209
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| Feb 2007 | Feb 22, 2007 - "The governor feels we need to achieve our reductions through market-based solutions," McLear said. Adams, who was at the event with Schwarzenegger, said she had not seen the bills, but said of the governor, "he's doing plenty in California.... California is the leader on this. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1220345431.html?dids=1220345431:1220345431&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type...date...Schwarzenegger...
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| May 2007 | May 16, 2007 - And fundamentally, Schwarzenegger, while continuing to pay lip service to closing the gap, has concluded that he can't do it -- at least not without new taxes -- and wants to finagle his way through the remainder of his tenure, using Enron-like gimmicks. ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-30784056.html
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| Jul 2007 | Jul 24, 2007 - ... ... and two governors and the Legislature have papered them over with gimmicks, Enron-like accounting tricks and on- and off-the-books borrowing. ... Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected on a promise to clean up the fiscal mess but so far has failed. His first act as governor was to ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-32451383.html
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| Aug 2007 | Aug 27, 2007 - Process reform is one thing, but if California is ever to regain control of its finances, we need fiscal reform even more, with honest and realistic revenue and spending numbers rather than the Enron-like suppositions that are now employed, and an enforceable commitment to bring those ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-32727769.html
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| Sep 2007 | Sep 20, 2007 - Among other things, the bills would ensure discussions about executive pay are done publicly in the CSU and University of California systems, ... "The notion that we're giving lavish pay to executives, that we are giving them the sort of Enron-style perks and CEO pay -- no, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/1339860751.html?dids=1339860751:1339860751&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+20%2C+2007...
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| Oct 2007 | Oct 30, 2007 - Schwarzenegger is precluded from a third term by the state's term limit law, according to the California Secretary of State's office. ... In 2000 and '01, traders at Enron Corp. and other energy firms gamed the state's partially deregulated grid by withholding power to create ... www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&refer=home&sid=alSqOcgtjwFo
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| Nov 2007 | Nov 14, 2007 - While those who welcome a California health care deal at any cost will cheer the approaching consensus between Democratic leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is reason to be wary of a hastily drawn plan that could exacerbate the health insecurity for many Californians. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/14/ED23TBLR5.DTL
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| Dec 2007 | Dec 19, 2007 - It is why Enron, for example, so strongly favored the Kyoto Treaty. In terms of Constitutional jurisdiction, Schwarzenegger probably is right. ... Raich two years ago: If liberals agreed that the feds could not override California medical marijuana laws, they'd have no Constitutional ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MPPB/lib01104,11DF92674BA016E8.html
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| Jan 2008 | Jan 15, 2008 - Prompted by recent projections of a $14 billion budget shortfall over the next eighteen months, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a ... The state government has never demanded the return of funds extracted by companies such as Enron, which are estimated at $11 billion. ... www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/bdgt-j15.shtml
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| Mar 2008 | Mar 19, 2008 - Arnold Schwarzenegger calls it "Kabuki theater" — the games the state's top legislative leaders play with the budget. ... Businesses and homeowners might once again be able to buy power on the open market if a process under way at the California Public Utilities Commission reaches its ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/19/state/n155413D61.DTL
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| Jun 2008 | Jun 30, 2008 - It didn't help Davis that voters were still blaming him for the state's 2000 and 2001 energy crisis, in which Enron Corp. and other energy traders were ... Under Schwarzenegger, a 60-year-old Republican, California began 2007 without a budget deficit for the first time in six years. ... www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a67gtXs56DU8&refer=home
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| Jul 2008 | Jul 3, 2008 - In giving short shrift to claims that the reviled energy companies were behind the crisis, the court said legally what California voters knew intuitively when they voted the first time for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Absent massive mismanagement, there would have been no crisis. ... www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080703/news_lz1e3kaloogia.html
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| Oct 2008 | Oct 3, 2008 - One of those Enron-like tricks was suspending income tax write-offs of business losses for a couple of years, with the proviso that they would be ... When voters ousted Davis in 2003 for fiscal mismanagement, successor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared that he would end "crazy deficit ... www.sacbee.com/walters/story/1285295.html
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| Dec 2008 | Dec 1, 2008 - Schwarzenegger Calls Fiscal Emergency in California 01 Dec 2008 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), saying his state is going broke, declared a fiscal emergency and ordered the incoming class of lawmakers into a special session to fix a widening $11 ...Schwarzenegger Calls Fiscal Emergency in California 01 Dec 2008 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), saying his state is going broke, declared a fiscal emergency and ordered the incoming class of lawmakers into a special session to fix a widening $11 billion deficit. Schwarzenegger wants lawmakers to raise taxes [on the poor] and cut spending to narrow the gap that is projected to swell to $28 billion over the next 18 months. [Enron/KBR whore Schwarzenegger needs ... Show more Show lesswww.legitgov.org/shortnews_1208.html
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| Feb 2009 | Feb 11, 2009 - These numbers also indicate what kind of California - one that offers opportunity or shackles us with debt - is on the horizon. July 12, 2007, was the last day California's checkbook showed a positive cash balance. Years of budget gimmickry and Enron-style accounting tricks have left ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/10/ED4515QUPJ.DTL
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| May 2009 | May 17, 2009 - One is, as Schwarzenegger insisted, a realistic projection of the growing fiscal crisis that California must confront. ... The true day of reckoning is the day governors and legislators stop using bookkeeping tricks, short-term loans and Enron-like gimmicks to BbalanceC the state ... www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2009/05/17/opinion/051709c.txt
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| Jun 2009 | Jun 9, 2009 - Enron troll Schwarzenegger shows true colors: California contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare 09 Jun 2009 Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare? That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a ...Enron troll Schwarzenegger shows true colors: California contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare 09 Jun 2009 Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare? That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a staggering $24.3 billion budget deficit. County welfare directors are "in shock" at the very idea of getting rid of CalWORKs, which has been widely viewed as one of the most successful social programs in the state's history ... Show more Show lesswww.legitgov.org/shortnews_0609.html
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| Jul 2009 | Jul 31, 2009 - In California, Schwarzenegger dropped long-term pension reform from negotiations with lawmakers to close the state's $24 billion budget ... ''You've heard of Enron, right?'' he said. ''Not only did (employees) all lose their jobs, they lost all their retirement tied to Enron's stock. ... www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/31/business/AP-US-California-Budget-Pensions.html?_r=2
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| Aug 2009 | Aug 25, 2009 - In Beverly Hills on Thursday, she went after Schwarzenegger for his role -- as yet unexplained -- at a meeting he and other California political and business leaders attended with Enron's Ken Lay in 2001. The meeting came at the height of California's energy crisis, and Lay reportedly ... dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/08/16/huffington/index1.html
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| Sep 2009 | Sep 16, 2009 - With the Bush-Cheney team finally in the White House and investigations and incriminations swirling around the energy crisis in California, Enron executives continued to focus both east and west in the first half of 2001. In the hope of selling Enron's "solution" to California's energy ... dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/10/14/enron/index2.html
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