By Emerson Drake
3/19/10
Yes, you read it right. MID doesn’t want its owners, the ratepayers, to have a voice in where they can throw away our money like they’ve done in Mountain House. Mountain House has cost the MID ratepayers 10’s of Millions of Dollars with no end in sight.
Proposition 16 would require a two-thirds of the utility’s residents to approve before it could expand service into an area where it isn’t the exclusive provider.Now they’re suing to stop Prop 16 and prevent you from voting on it.
Had Prop.16 been in effect just a few short years ago our rates would be lower right now.
As recently as two months ago Paul Warda repeated his false claim that Mountain House was making MID money. While MID steadfastly refuses to supply cost information, they are generally willing to concede they are still in the red and getting in deeper every day.
Yes PG&E has a self serving goal, but that shouldn’t be an excuse to allow MID the right to deprive share holders an opportunity to be heard at the Ballot box.
Public Affairs Director Kate Hora has been contacted in an attempt to uncover just how much of our own money they are spending to deprive us of the democratic process.As of this writing she has yet to return our phone calls.
They’re probably trying to decide how to spin this one.Update: Kate Hora (MID PAD) called saying thy aren't sure how much money they've spent or are going to allocate for the lawsuit, but will keep us informed.
