Published: Aug. 03, 2010
Words: 21,052 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452390253

Description

Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, error-prone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, pay-to-play ballot initiative process...what results? Hubris, overreach and venality upended by truthiness. Over-torqued battlefield dispatches create a fast-paced nonfiction novella -- a bugle call to that silent army of citizen optimists everywhere.

Tags

clean energy, corporate greed, newspapers, renewable energy, monopoly, utility companies, campaign contributions, corporate power, peter darbee, california ballot initiative, california politics, utility ratepayers, citizens united, grassroots activists, political influence, utility regulation, regulatory capture, pacific gas and electric, public power, municipal utility, prop 16, proposition 16, california public utilitities commission, cpuc, pgande

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Videos

How stupid?
From the postscript in 21 Machetes, my nine word summation of you-know-who's miscalculation.

Where's Darbee?
What I said to the California Public Utilities Commission on March 23, 2010.

Three Tapeworms
What I said to the California Legislature on February 25, 2010.

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Review by: Margaret Weaver on July 09, 2011 :
How one group stopped a major corporation in ripping off the public. Unfortunately MR.Geesman cannot be everywhere to slow the rest of the corporate crooks.
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