Attached is a copy of an expose-media letter I need more names and addresses for. I am forwarding to as many media outlets as I can a copy of my whistleblower letter to the State Auditor If you know any TV, radio, newspaper or magazine personnel who have been negative about CPUC performance at anytime during the past several years, send me a list of their names and addresses. Include political and educational personnel, too.

There are many who are anti current administration for a variety of > reasons. I will give them one more piece of ammunition.

Gov. Gray Davis is a target, too, since he appoints the Commissioners. Ahern is the main target, but others are accomplices who assist or facilitate his operation.

Send a copy of this e-mail to anyone you like. See you on 25th.

MF

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Maurice F. Crommie
P.O. Box 1514
Oxford, MS 38655

June 25, 2003

ADDRESS

Dear Sir:

Attached is a "Whistleblower" letter I wrote to the California State Auditor on 6/25/03.

It is an expose of corrupt nepotism and favoritism practices at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that have cost the California rate-payers and tax-payers billions of dollars.

I would like to have this letter publicized in the press and other media as much as possible. I have additional data and access to public records that can document and support the allegations of corruption in my letter.

It is difficult to pursue a whistleblowing expose of corruption in any government agency due to the fact that all government agencies, regardless of their public pronouncements concerning their obligations and objectives to protect the public, have a preceding preeminent personal objective to protect themselves and political colleagues from harassment and exposure. Political connections and colleague protection are rampant in government agencies. They are more rampant, even, than colleague protection in the AMA and ABA. Media exposure is the "last line of defense" for the American public.

As in private enterprise, personal relationships often determine who succeeds the current administration in public agencies. While this may provide some benefits, it is often illegal to practice such discrimination in public civil service organizations. The Civil Service Bureau was created to eliminate such practices in public government agencies where the self-correcting mechanisms that exist in private enterprise are lacking.

One small example is the energy crisis of 2001 in California. In large part this crisis was created by inefficient and self-serving individuals at the strategic planning level of the CPUC. They created an energy de-regulation debacle due to hiring and promotion of inexperienced "favorite" colleagues, in violation of Civil Service codes. The chief architect of this fiasco has recently been appointed Executive Director of the CPUC.

Hoping that we can be of assistance to each other, I remain

Maurice F. Crommie, former CPUC analyst

Letter to State Auditor

Maurice F. Crommie
P.O. Box 1514
Oxford, MS 38655

June 25, 2003

Bureau of State Audits
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Sir:

The purpose of this letter is to expose the continuing nepotistic staffing practices at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). These corrupt favoritism practices at a civil service state regulatory agency are costing the taxpayers and utility ratepayers of California an inordinate amount of money (billions of dollars).

A large part of the excessive costs to Californians of the recent "California Energy Debacle" of 2001 and 2002 and continuing into 2003 are due to the corrupt practices of a small group of "self-serving" public servants who created the regulatory background in the early 1990's that allowed the regulatory fiasco of 2001.

Gray Davis, the present Governor, bears some responsibility for what occurs at the corrupt CPUC state regulatory agency. The governor appoints the five Commissioners of the CPUC, who then appoint the Executive Director.

The current recently appointed Executive Director of the CPUC is Dr. William Ahern. This is the same Dr. Ahern, who as Director of the Public Staff Division at the CPUC in the 1980's, stacked the deck with staff promotions for his favorite candidates from his alma mater, the Kennedy School at Harvard and other educational institutions supplying inexperienced recent graduates of public policy schools, who were more than willing to acquiesce to whatever demands were made by Dr. Ahern in return for their discriminatory "favoritism" promotions.

As a result of "stacking the staff" at the CPUC, Dr. Ahern was able to secure extremely favorable rates for SCE and PG&E's nuclear power plants at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. During Dr. Ahern's directorship at the CPUC, SCE benefited to such an extent that they hired Dr. Ahern's mentor, John Bryson, as a Senior Vice President at a salary that eventually more than quadrupled his salary at the CPUC. John Bryson, in turn recommended a colleague at SCE, Mr. Mike Peevey, to become CPUC President. Mr. Peevey, in turn, rehired Dr. Ahern, who had left the CPUC ten years earlier following a court trial in the Ninth Federal District Court in San Francisco for discriminatory hiring practices at the CPUC. Dr. Ahern lost this trial and the CPUC had to pay several million dollars in court costs plus negotiate several more millions of dollars in out of court settlements for other impending employee discrimination charges.

There are many more facts and data on public record that unequivocally document the arrogant corrupt behavior of Dr. Ahern and his colleagues in running the CPUC as a personal sinecure for their own benefit and that of the utilities who support them. Having Dr. Ahern as Executive Director of the CPUC regulatory agency is like having a fox as protector of the chicken coop.

Yours truly,

Maurice F. Crommie (former CPUC analyst)