Marbet

From: "Lloyd Marbet" <cnsrvncy@teleport.com>
To: "OR Oregonian Letters to the Editor" <letters@news.oregonian.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 3:00 AM
Subject: Letter to the Editor

> To the Editor:
>
> In the first Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing on
> Enron's proposed sale of PGE to Northwest Natural Gas, it
> was attended by all three PUC Commissioners; even though one
> Commissioner repeatedly nodded off during party
> presentations and members of the public were told they would
> have to be cleared from the room if any of the parties
> disclosed the amount of money PGE executives would receive
> in bonuses from this proposed sale. In the next two
> hearings, held solely for the purpose of taking public
> testimony, only one of the three PUC Commissioners managed
> to be at each hearing.
>
> I hope the public is getting the message of how important
> their concerns really are to these so called public
> servants. In 30 years of watching private utilities
> manipulate their regulators, it has become quite obvious
> that Oregonians need to control their own energy future by
> activating Oregon's State Power Authority and adopting
> Campaign Finance Reform. We must seize the vision of our
> ancestors, for Oregon deserves better!
>
> Lloyd Marbet, Director
> Money Is Not Democracy
> democracy@voters.net
>
> --
> ADDRESS:
>
> Lloyd K. Marbet
> 19142 SE Bakers Ferry Road
> Boring, OR 97009
> Phone: (503) 637-3549
> Fax: (503) 637-6130
>
>
> WEB SITES:
>
> Lloyd Marbet: http://www.marbet.org
> Money Is Not Democracy: http://www.voters.net
> Don't Waste Oregon: http://www.dwoc.org
> Coalition for Initiative Rights: http://www.cirights.org
> Stop Oregon's Gambling Addiction:
> http://www.dweezil.org/no66
>
>
> QUOTES:
>
> Power at its best is love implementing the demands of
> justice.
> Justice at its best is love correcting everything that
> stands against love.
>
> __Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
> If you do not live the life you believe, you will believe
> the life you live.
>
> __Zig Ziglar
>
> The earth provides for every man's need but not for every
> man's greed.

> __Gandhi
>
> And the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life
> which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in
> the long run.
>
> __Thoreau
>
> "The Brush Dance is a Yurok Indian healing ritual where
> being true to yourself means giving
> your best to help a person in need. Being true to yourself
> is the one and only Yurok Indian law."
>
>                                                   __Renee Locks
>
> Life is change...
> Growth is optional...
> Choose wisely...
>
>                                         __Karen Kaiser Clark
>
> It matters not
> Who you love
> Where you love
> Why you love
> When you love
> Or how you love
> It matters only that you love
>
>                           __John Lennon
>
> By deliberately changing the internal image of reality,
> People can change the world.
>
>                       __Willis Harman
>
> If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who
> profess to favor freedom, and yet
> deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without
> thunder and lightening. They want the
> ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes
> nothing without a demand. It never
> did, and it never will.
>
>      __Frederick Douglass, Canandaigua, N.Y. 3, Aug. 1857
>
> A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a
> superficial appearance of being right.
>
>       __ Thomas Paine (Introduction to Common Sense 1776)
>
> I feel that my mission is, wherever I am, to express my
> feeling about the importance of kindness,
> compassion, and the true sense of brotherhood. I practice
> these things. It gives me more
> happiness, more success. If I practiced anger or jealousy
> or bitterness, no doubt my smile would
> disappear.
>
>          __The Dalai Lama
>
> It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a
> sick society.
>
>       __ J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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