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		 Subject: Capitol Alert: Dan Walters: Political, financial mischief slide 
quietly into annual state budget


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Dan Walters: Political, financial mischief slide quietly into annual state 
budget


(Published July 18, 2001)

As wholesale energy prices began to soar last year, California utilities 
sought relief from the volatile spot market, including the authority to 
negotiate long-term supply contracts.




 
  In early June 2000, the state Public Utilities Commission voted 3-2 -- with 
PUC President Loretta Lynch in strong dissent -- to allow long-term power 
purchases outside the California Power Exchange, which was then the only 
permissible source.

  A few days later, someone slipped into a complex, multipart bill related 



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http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert04_20010718.html
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Dan Walters: Political, financial mischief slide quietly into annual state 
budget


(Published July 18, 2001)
As wholesale energy prices began to soar last year, California utilities 
sought relief from the volatile spot market, including the authority to 
negotiate long-term supply contracts.
In early June 2000, the state Public Utilities Commission voted 3-2 -- with 
PUC President Loretta Lynch in strong dissent -- to allow long-term power 
purchases outside the California Power Exchange, which was then the only 
permissible source.
A few days later, someone slipped into a complex, multipart bill related 

You can see the rest of this story at: 
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert04_20010718.html 
Copyright , The Sacramento Bee