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Would disbarred Bill Lerach dare practice law again?
martygraham619: He also lied under oath. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 7:45 p.m.
SD City College instructors plan protest
shirleyberan: Psycholizard is wise. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 7:35 p.m.
SD City College instructors plan protest
Psycholizard: Billy Graham's son,now 70, was quoted on TV saying that, after all, the alleged affair with the porn star happened five years ago. A man can change in that time, he said. Hmmmm. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 7:35 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
swell: As I pointed out, Langley worked for Aguirre and Severson. Then Langley got into a dispute with Aguirre, left, and formed Public Watchdogs. The organization was unhappy, as were several knowledgeable people, with the deal in which Edison only said that it would look into the possibility of moving the deadly nuclear waste away from the ocean's edge. Aguirre and Severson got $800,000 out of that deal -- hardly excessive given the work they put in -- and Edison, it certainly appears now, got off the hook. It keeps hedging on how far it will go but it says it is preparing to proceed with the move that would endanger North County and south Orange County citizens. Langley is unhappy that Aguirre and Severson got $5.4 million out of this settlement. I think they deserved it. I have been following this for as long as they have been on the case and none of this would have happened if Aguirre hadn't found out from a third source about the Warsaw, Poland sneak deal. Langley thinks Aguirre and Severson have finally received compensation for their work, and are now walking away. One can't blame Langley for feeling that way. Best,Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 7:28 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
CHARLES LANGLEY SAYS LAST NIGHT'S DEAL WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL PEEVEY/EDISON SCAM IN WHICH RATEPAYERS WERE TO GET RAPED. THEY'RE STILL GETTING RAPED, HE SAYS. "This 'new' settlement is basically the same sack of detestable excrement in a new bag," says Langley, executive director of Public Watchdogs. He formerly worked for Aguirre and Severson. He notes that Edison and the plaintiffs announced the deal so late in the day that there was little time for thoughtful discussion. True. I got my release at 5:28 p.m. I was able to get to Aguirre and Severson (separately but only briefly) before filing my blog item at 7:05 p.m. It didn't print until today. Langley says "Edison won" because the "documented history of criminal activity will never be made public in a regulatory court." Actually, the settlement, if OK'd by the CPUC, will only be civil. Langley says Aguirre boycotted secret meetings on the grounds that utility rates should be set in public, but then went ahead with this deal in secret. The first deal was illegally set in private in a Warsaw, Poland, hotel. Former CPUC head Mike Peevey and Edison executives participated. Thus far, they have gotten away with this criminality, says Langley. He says that "every single deal point" made illegally in Warsaw has been enacted through this proposed settlement. "The public is only being given 15 days to review this settlement before the approval hearing will occur. If past is prologue, the shareholders of Edison will be making fat profits at the public trough with the help" of the very people who sued over the deal in the first place. Best, Don. Bauder
— January 31, 2018 3:49 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Visduh: I don't know what would have happened if the equipment had not been defective and San Onofre had lasted another 40 years. I don't know if ratepayers would have been on the hook for all or part of decommissioning costs. Edison has had extremely high rates for many years (although not as high as SDG&E). It would have depended, I suppose, on the original deal. Investor-owned utilities have guaranteed profits. That is not true in the private sector, at least in most industries. One could argue that shareholders should have absorbed some costs had the facility last another 40 years. I would not have agreed with that, however. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 3:30 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Cassander: Not only our politicians -- but more importantly our corporations and their financiers -- do not practice free enterprise. They get all the corporate welfare they can grab from taxpayers. They only talk free enterprise. Edison going bankrupt would have been one solution. The company went into default on its debt during the energy crisis of the early 2000s. California's municipal utilities have rates that are often about half of the rates of investor-owned utilities like Edison, so rates would have had to go down, and the value of assets would have to be written down before any breakup and sale to municipals. Practically speaking, I don't think a BK and breakup would have been possible. But shareholders should have taken 100 percent of the hit for the errors, totally by management. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 3:19 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Cassander: If this is approved, the net effect is that shareholders will pay $2.3 billion and ratepayers will have paid $2.4 billion. That is better than the original $3.3 billion to be paid by ratepayers that Peevey and Edison cooked up privately and illegally, but at least it is an improvement. However, a 50-50 split is not satisfactory. Shareholders should have been required to pay 100 percent and ratepayers zero. The major mistake -- a faulty steam generator that caused the closure -- was 100 percent management's fault and thus Edison should have paid 100 percent. But, if this is approved, it might be the best ratepayers can get. Best, Don Bauder
— January 31, 2018 12:29 p.m.
A reader has a couple of corrections
Bauder replies: The "crackpot" to whom Wade refers is a distinguished PhD and lecturer who knows that San Onofre matter as well as anybody. Wade mistakenly thinks I meant that through Edison's horrible decision to bury nuclear waste near the ocean, Edison intended to save money for the ratepayers. Nonsense. We meant that Edison was saving its own money and thereby jacking up its own profits. That should have been obvious. As to petezanko: he has been showing up all over the Reader with his hate attacks on me. Ignore him. I do. Best, Don Bauder
— January 30, 2018 8:37 p.m.
Chaos at newly unionized
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petezanko: This lazy, conspiratorial, fake reporter -- yours truly -- never applied to the LA Times and it never recruited me. You say I make "us" look bad. This suggests you got a job in journalism after leaving the U-T. Where did you get it? Please inform us. Best, Don Bauder
— January 30, 2018 4:15 p.m.
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Would disbarred Bill Lerach dare practice law again?
martygraham619: He also lied under oath. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 7:45 p.m.
SD City College instructors plan protest
shirleyberan: Psycholizard is wise. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 7:35 p.m.
SD City College instructors plan protest
Psycholizard: Billy Graham's son,now 70, was quoted on TV saying that, after all, the alleged affair with the porn star happened five years ago. A man can change in that time, he said. Hmmmm. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 7:35 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
swell: As I pointed out, Langley worked for Aguirre and Severson. Then Langley got into a dispute with Aguirre, left, and formed Public Watchdogs. The organization was unhappy, as were several knowledgeable people, with the deal in which Edison only said that it would look into the possibility of moving the deadly nuclear waste away from the ocean's edge. Aguirre and Severson got $800,000 out of that deal -- hardly excessive given the work they put in -- and Edison, it certainly appears now, got off the hook. It keeps hedging on how far it will go but it says it is preparing to proceed with the move that would endanger North County and south Orange County citizens. Langley is unhappy that Aguirre and Severson got $5.4 million out of this settlement. I think they deserved it. I have been following this for as long as they have been on the case and none of this would have happened if Aguirre hadn't found out from a third source about the Warsaw, Poland sneak deal. Langley thinks Aguirre and Severson have finally received compensation for their work, and are now walking away. One can't blame Langley for feeling that way. Best,Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 7:28 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
CHARLES LANGLEY SAYS LAST NIGHT'S DEAL WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL PEEVEY/EDISON SCAM IN WHICH RATEPAYERS WERE TO GET RAPED. THEY'RE STILL GETTING RAPED, HE SAYS. "This 'new' settlement is basically the same sack of detestable excrement in a new bag," says Langley, executive director of Public Watchdogs. He formerly worked for Aguirre and Severson. He notes that Edison and the plaintiffs announced the deal so late in the day that there was little time for thoughtful discussion. True. I got my release at 5:28 p.m. I was able to get to Aguirre and Severson (separately but only briefly) before filing my blog item at 7:05 p.m. It didn't print until today. Langley says "Edison won" because the "documented history of criminal activity will never be made public in a regulatory court." Actually, the settlement, if OK'd by the CPUC, will only be civil. Langley says Aguirre boycotted secret meetings on the grounds that utility rates should be set in public, but then went ahead with this deal in secret. The first deal was illegally set in private in a Warsaw, Poland, hotel. Former CPUC head Mike Peevey and Edison executives participated. Thus far, they have gotten away with this criminality, says Langley. He says that "every single deal point" made illegally in Warsaw has been enacted through this proposed settlement. "The public is only being given 15 days to review this settlement before the approval hearing will occur. If past is prologue, the shareholders of Edison will be making fat profits at the public trough with the help" of the very people who sued over the deal in the first place. Best, Don. Bauder— January 31, 2018 3:49 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Visduh: I don't know what would have happened if the equipment had not been defective and San Onofre had lasted another 40 years. I don't know if ratepayers would have been on the hook for all or part of decommissioning costs. Edison has had extremely high rates for many years (although not as high as SDG&E). It would have depended, I suppose, on the original deal. Investor-owned utilities have guaranteed profits. That is not true in the private sector, at least in most industries. One could argue that shareholders should have absorbed some costs had the facility last another 40 years. I would not have agreed with that, however. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 3:30 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Cassander: Not only our politicians -- but more importantly our corporations and their financiers -- do not practice free enterprise. They get all the corporate welfare they can grab from taxpayers. They only talk free enterprise. Edison going bankrupt would have been one solution. The company went into default on its debt during the energy crisis of the early 2000s. California's municipal utilities have rates that are often about half of the rates of investor-owned utilities like Edison, so rates would have had to go down, and the value of assets would have to be written down before any breakup and sale to municipals. Practically speaking, I don't think a BK and breakup would have been possible. But shareholders should have taken 100 percent of the hit for the errors, totally by management. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 3:19 p.m.
Proposed settlement will cost SDG&E, Edison $873 million
Cassander: If this is approved, the net effect is that shareholders will pay $2.3 billion and ratepayers will have paid $2.4 billion. That is better than the original $3.3 billion to be paid by ratepayers that Peevey and Edison cooked up privately and illegally, but at least it is an improvement. However, a 50-50 split is not satisfactory. Shareholders should have been required to pay 100 percent and ratepayers zero. The major mistake -- a faulty steam generator that caused the closure -- was 100 percent management's fault and thus Edison should have paid 100 percent. But, if this is approved, it might be the best ratepayers can get. Best, Don Bauder— January 31, 2018 12:29 p.m.
A reader has a couple of corrections
Bauder replies: The "crackpot" to whom Wade refers is a distinguished PhD and lecturer who knows that San Onofre matter as well as anybody. Wade mistakenly thinks I meant that through Edison's horrible decision to bury nuclear waste near the ocean, Edison intended to save money for the ratepayers. Nonsense. We meant that Edison was saving its own money and thereby jacking up its own profits. That should have been obvious. As to petezanko: he has been showing up all over the Reader with his hate attacks on me. Ignore him. I do. Best, Don Bauder— January 30, 2018 8:37 p.m.
Chaos at newly unionized L.A. Times
petezanko: This lazy, conspiratorial, fake reporter -- yours truly -- never applied to the LA Times and it never recruited me. You say I make "us" look bad. This suggests you got a job in journalism after leaving the U-T. Where did you get it? Please inform us. Best, Don Bauder— January 30, 2018 4:15 p.m.