NewsWatch: Energy reports on May 15 the Texas Legislature has allowed convenient technicalities to halt a bill designed to improve Texas electric rate payers. The Electric lobbyists have succeeded in trumping the voters and rate payers, yet again. Texas voters should be outraged!
In a statement Geoffrey Gay, general counsel for the Cities Aggregation Power Project, called the bill's failure "another victory for the electric lobby, and another set back for Texas ratepayers." He went on to say:
The legislation would have helped lower electricity prices by creating new customer protections and new rules against anti-competitive behavior. It would have helped make electricity more affordable by making deregulation more competitive.
What electric industry lobbyists feared most was a public vote on these important protections. With the point of order, they avoided one. Consumers should be outraged.
Texans are witnessing the same corruption of their economy and government as we have witnessed in Wa. D.C. at the hands of lobbyists and wealthy special interests. When are Texans going to organize themselves to remove these incumbents in the Legislature who have become addicted to the lobbyist's bribes, blackmail, and the campaign contributions of wealthy special interests insisting their agenda supersede that of Texan voters and the State's future?
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