I am aware that you have requested that the CPUC respond to all charges contained in my correspondences to you. This can be quite a tall order since my charges contain both charges of personal harm to me and general charges of agency corruption and mismanagement. There can be a problem with adequate or sufficient documentation.

There is no problem with my charges of personal harm to me. These are well documented. The problem may occur in what is judged to be sufficient documentation for the general charges of agency corruption and management malfeasance. This is so because external factors such as economic, environmental, and political factors can be introduced by the CPUC in an attempt to dismiss or mitigate their responsibility for the results of their mismanagement.

The California energy crisis of 2000 and 2001 was not made overnight. It developed over a period of years due to inadequate strategic planning by the CPUC. Granted there are all forms of external inputs, some controllable, some not, there is still a man-made input to the financial crisis caused by lack of planning and regulatory mismanagement. Dr. Ahern was responsible for this lack of planning and regulatory mismanagement during the 1980’s when he staffed the CPUC Strategic Planning Division with inadequate, incompetent, inexperienced personnel whose primary requirements for employment were unquestioning loyalty to him in the pursuit of his flawed deregulation agenda. With Dr. Ahern in charge, the Strategic Planning Division of the CPUC rushed into the deregulation environment without planning safegaurd alternatives to deal with deregulation uncertainties.

As you already know, Dr Ahern was found guilty of discriminatory and favoritism hiring and promotional practices during my trial at the Ninth Federal District Court in San Francisco in 1993. This trial and its aftermath cost the CPUC tens of millions of dollars in public funds. Dr. Ahern left the CPUC shortly thereafter and didn’t return until ten years later in March 2003 when he was appointed Executive Director of the CPUC by Michael Peevey, CPUC President and colleague of John Bryson, Senior Vice President of SCE and former mentor of Dr. Ahern, while he (Bryson) was CPUC President during the 1980’s. Special interests may be involved here.

If I can be of any further service in documenting any of these issues, I will be pleased to do so.

Yours truly,

Maurice F. Crommie
Former CPUC Senior Analyst