Congratulations, California! PG&E CEO Peter Darbee, the Face of Evil is dazed and confused!California, you voted down Proposition 16, Pacific Gas and Electric's $50 million dollar ploy to stop cities from buying power for their citizens on the open market. Instead of having no choice but to buy PG&E's high-priced power. Pure, banal, corporate evil.
Nobody backed Proposition 16 but PG&E. Nobody funded it but PG&E. It was a calculated and cynical power grab. They timed the proposition for a low-turnout election, when mainly ideologues (left and right) turn out. They mounted a huge advertising campaign that portrayed their proposition as "the right to VOTE on new taxes." That was the hook to draw in the right-wing ideologues.
But guess what? A lot of the right-wing ideologues didn't buy it. They hate PG&E as much as anybody. They've dealt with PG&E and been messed over by PG&E. A lot of the big agricultural counties in the Central Valley -- real conservative strongholds -- voted Prop 16 down.
Peter Darbee gambled -- and lost. I'm sure he looks like an idiot to the shareholders right now -- $50 million down the tubes. But I'm also sure that he's shrugging it off, hardnosed businessman that he is: well, that didn't work, back to business as usual.
WRONG! You're a money man, Peter. So you think it's only about money. But just think about the millions of people who know absolutely KNOW that PG&E is run by a bunch of RAT BASTARDS. Who will assume that everything PG&E says is a lie.
We all hate PG&E openly. All trust is gone. Your public relations department is quivering in fear. Municipal power now looks better than ever: who wants to do business with the likes of YOU?
No evil for YOU, Mr. Darbee. Here's hoping you lose you job -- as an example to others like you.
Edit, 2011: He DID lose his job, though it took the death of eight people in a pipeline blowup to seal the deal. Read my followup post:
The Everlasting Henchman
1 comments:
My father is not a "rat bastard" as you so eloquently put it, nor is he a "money man". Toasting to the hope that a very giving and caring individual loses his job because of the spun perception you have been brainwashed with is ridiculous and disgusting. In our family we have always been concerned with conservation, the environment, and the well-being of others. My father is a generous man, how dare you throw around his name with such unjustified hate.
Sarah E. Darbee
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