{"id":1442,"date":"2009-09-24T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/mirkarimi-warns-ncpa-of-pge-monopoly-protecting-ballot-initiative\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:14:39","slug":"mirkarimi-warns-ncpa-of-pge-monopoly-protecting-ballot-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1442\/mirkarimi-warns-ncpa-of-pge-monopoly-protecting-ballot-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirkarimi Warns NCPA <br>of PG&#038;E Monopoly-Protecting Ballot Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/ross_mirkarimi_ncpa_090923\/_w2w2437_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor Ross Mirkarimi was a guest speaker<br \/>\nat the annual meeting of the Northern California Power Agency yesterday.<br \/>\nHe warned its members of a 2010 PG&amp;E-sponsored statewide ballot initiative<br \/>\nthat is aimed at protecting its monopoly against public power advances.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 24, 2009<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi rang alarm bells yesterday on a 2010 statewide Pacific Gas &amp; Electric-sponsored ballot initiative that would &ldquo;decapitate&rdquo; efforts to implement municipal public power initiatives in California.<\/p>\n<p>Attending the annual convocation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.com\/\">Northern California Power Agency<\/a> members at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Mirkarimi warned the NCPA that PG&amp;E is attempting to &ldquo;kill any interest of Community Choice Aggregation being contemplated by municipalities in the State of California,&rdquo; to protect its monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot initiative, deceptively dubbed &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/California_Taxpayers_Right_to_Vote_Act_%282010%29\">The Taxpayers Right to Vote Act<\/a>&rdquo; would, if passed by a simple majority of voters, amend the California constitution and require the assent of two-thirds of voters to &ldquo;expand electric delivery service to a new territory or new customers, or to implement a plan to become an aggregate electricity provider,&rdquo; according to the measure&rsquo;s statement of purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s absurd and an affront to our democracy,&rdquo; Mirkarimi said, referring to the two-thirds requirement.  &ldquo;What this does is exactly what it&rsquo;s intended to do &ndash; to annihilate competition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mirkarimi said it is imperative that municipalities begin a coordinated campaign to educate voters against being duped into voting for the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Though the NCPA is prohibited from campaign advocacy, several members expressed concerns with the ballot measure and raised questions on how best to build a winning strategy to defeat it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/ross_mirkarimi_ncpa_090923\/_w2w2453_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>More Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">PG&amp;E attacks consumer choice<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Stopping PG&amp;E&#8217;s fraudulent initiative<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">PG&amp;E Doubles Down Again vs. Local Energy Choice<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimesslo.com\/cover\/3262\/pge-pushes-vote-to-limit-public-power\/\">PG&amp;E pushes vote to limit public power<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/sacramento\/content?oid=1040018\">PG&amp;E&rsquo;s power trip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ballot initiative, deceptively dubbed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Taxpayers Right to Vote Act,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would, if passed by voters, amend the California constitution to require the assent of two-thirds of voters to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153expand electric delivery service to a new territory or new customers, or to implement a plan to become an aggregate electricity provider,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the measure\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statement of purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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