Time to pick up that phone again.
Remember Jason330’s expose of the 2001 passage of McDowell’s Senate Bill? Hopefully you do. It was only yesterday that it happened………..
You may also remember Tommywonk picked up on McDowell’s Senate Bill 228, which deals with the SEU, and exactly who will control it?
Well that bill is on tomorrow’s Senate agenda. Why should anyone care? Because it will cost you tons of money if it passes. Who benefits from its passing? One Senator Harris McDowell.
What could a bill from 2001, that we were poking fun of yesterday, the same one that was vetoed by Governor Minner,……. and a bill going onto the floor of the Senate tomorrow afternoon, have in common?
Funny you should ask……………..They are almost the same bills.
Unless you see this……..you will never believe it.
Senate Bill 235 from the 241st Legislative Session in 2001………
and……
Senate Bill 228 on the floor of the Senate tomorrow………………
Compare the two…..Pretty damn close, don’t you think? Remarkably close…..In fact one is probably a template for the other……………
Again remember why the first Bill (235) was vetoed……………….it took taxpayer money paid into a fund called the Green Energy Fund, to be used for the personal enjoyment of Harris McDowell.
Tomorrows Bill 228, if passed removes any oversight over those collecting hundred’s of millions for carbon credits (McDowell again). Just as we lost oversight of our housing bubble collapse, we are about to loose oversight of our energy costs, just as they begin to skyrocket up………….
If your Senator is a Democrat leave a message here: (302) 744-4286
If your Senator is a Republican leave a message here: (302) 744-4048
You need to call these numbers, and tell them to vote it down. And while you have them on the phone, tell them you know 228 is a bad bill and is being rushed through the Senate far too quickly. Tell them it needs to face public scrutiny before a public question and answer session before becoming law. The American people demand no less. Tell them you know Governor Minner veto’d this same type of bill back in 2001, when it went by a different name, that of SB235. Jason 330 has Minner’s rebuke of McDowell here)
If this legislation passes, it will make McDowell wealthy in his old age; it will make us much poorer as we struggle to barely survive………….
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April 22, 2008 at 4:51 pm
an interested reader
Note that Sen. McDowell has now offered an amendment to be presented with SB 228 that deletes most provisions of the original bill – including the new provisions that spoke about how the SEU Board of Directors is to be selected. Under the proposed amendment, the bill would only: (1) authorize the contract administrator to be a profit as well as a non-profit, organization and (2) clarify that the SEU is a non-profit entity (and thus apparently not a governmental entity).
April 22, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Patricia Gearity
Alert: Sen. McDowell filed an amendment to SB228. The amendment does away with all sections of 228 regarding the Board of Directors for the SEU. If the amendment passes, we are left with the original law for the SEU Board, in SB18. Under SB18, the current Oversight Board (consisting of McDowell, Copeland, Blevins, Simpson, Hall-Long, Thornburg, Schooley, Smisson of the Energy Office, Public Advocate Padmore, and Keith Lake) will pick a Board of Directors for approval by “the General Assembly.” Of equal concern is what remains of SB228 on the floor today. It would allow the SEU’s future Contract Administrator to be a for-profit company. This opens the door to awarding this powerful plum position to one of Sen. McDowell’s corporate supporters during the wind hearings 2007-08 – Honeywell Energy Solutions, ICF (paid consultants to Delmarva Power and to McDowell’s SEU Task Force, and who issued negative reports about the BWW project), or Applied Energy Group’s Ralph Nigro, who was Sen. McDowell’s right-hand man during the wind hearings and who worked for the SEU Task Force.
The original SB18 did the same thing, allowing a “person or entity” to be the Contract Administrator. This would have allowed a for-profit company to be picked. Then McDowell amended SB18 to require a non-profit entity. SB18 passed on that basis. Now he is trying to go back and fix that provision to his satisfaction. People should call their Senators and express their opinions on that point.