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Enron influence corrupts both parties in Oregon
Enron bought Portland General Electric (PGE), a local utility company in 1997. After the takeover, electricity rates went up, and Enron tried to soak PGE's rate payers for $304,000,000 worth of imaginary profits the Trojan nuclear reactor would have generated if it had ran until 2011, even though the plant was actually shut down in 1994 because it was built defectively.
Enron greased a few palms in our Republican controlled State legislature to get a bill passed allowing them to collect this money from the rate payers. The bill was signed into law by our State's Democratic Governor. He said it was good for business.
Oregon's Citizen's Utility Board, Public Interest Research Group, and the Alliance For Democracy joined forces to refer this ludicrous bill to the voters in my state. I helped these groups collect 56,000 valid signatures to make this bill into a ballot measure.
After this bill was ballot qualified, I worked with these groups to help defeat it. The Chief Petitioner for this effort was not a Democrat. He was a great Oregon activist named Lloyd Marbet, who was the Green party candidate for the Oregon Secretary of State's seat. It was not the Democrats who made this effort to stop Enron from screwing their customers over. It was the Green party who stood up for what was right and fought the good fight for the citizens of Oregon.
The Democrats stood on the sidelines for these efforts. They did next to nothing in this case. Most of them wouldn't even take a position on the ballot measure. Most of the Republicans were in favor of it. The measure overwhelmingly failed at the polls and Enron was screwed out of gouging our citizens for $304,000,000 because of the efforts of Oregon's progressive activist community.
Enron bought Portland General Electric (PGE), a local utility company in 1997. After the takeover, electricity rates went up, and Enron tried to soak PGE's rate payers for $304,000,000 worth of imaginary profits the Trojan nuclear reactor would have generated if it had ran until 2011, even though the plant was actually shut down in 1994 because it was built defectively.
Enron greased a few palms in our Republican controlled State legislature to get a bill passed allowing them to collect this money from the rate payers. The bill was signed into law by our State's Democratic Governor. He said it was good for business.
Oregon's Citizen's Utility Board, Public Interest Research Group, and the Alliance For Democracy joined forces to refer this ludicrous bill to the voters in my state. I helped these groups collect 56,000 valid signatures to make this bill into a ballot measure.
After this bill was ballot qualified, I worked with these groups to help defeat it. The Chief Petitioner for this effort was not a Democrat. He was a great Oregon activist named Lloyd Marbet, who was the Green party candidate for the Oregon Secretary of State's seat. It was not the Democrats who made this effort to stop Enron from screwing their customers over. It was the Green party who stood up for what was right and fought the good fight for the citizens of Oregon.
The Democrats stood on the sidelines for these efforts. They did next to nothing in this case. Most of them wouldn't even take a position on the ballot measure. Most of the Republicans were in favor of it. The measure overwhelmingly failed at the polls and Enron was screwed out of gouging our citizens for $304,000,000 because of the efforts of Oregon's progressive activist community.
