Dear Governor Davis,

Subject: Incorrect Behavior of CPUC Executive Director

I realize your most immediate preoccupation is with the forthcoming recall vote. I also agree with the paramount advice you have received from former President Bill Clinton, i.e., continue to do your job as Governor of California. The purpose of this letter is to ask you to perform one part of that job. I ask you to rescind the appointment of Dr. William Ahern who has recently been appointed Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission.

My request is based on Dr. Ahern’s arrogant, corrupt and illegal operations as a former Division Director of the Public Staff Division of the CPUC in the 1980’s. He was found guilty of illegal discrimination and promotion of CPUC civil service employees in a Ninth Federal District court trial in 1993.

After a ten year absence, Dr. Ahern rejoined the CPUC this year and was promoted and appointed to Executive Director. Questions have been raised about the propriety and legal correctness of this appointment process.

There are also questions concerning Dr. Ahern’s contribution to the California Energy Crisis of 2001 and 2002. These questions are based on his nepotistic and favoritism practices in stacking the staff at the CPUC with unqualified, inexperienced personnel who subsequently deregulated the state energy oversight processes to result in what has come to be known as the California Energy Debacle. Although this incident has often been described as an external unfortunate economic mismatch of supply and demand, it was man-made. Dr. Ahern was one of the key men in this man made disaster. He has a personal responsibility and role in the loss of billions of dollars in the California economy.

To demonstrate that Dr. Ahern’s unprofessional, arrogant and demeaning attitude toward civil service employees has not changed during his ten year absence from the CPUC, I would like to have you examine three recent correspondences I have had with Dr. Ahern.

The first correspondence (Attachment A1 and A2) is a letter I wrote to Dr. Ahern on May 15th of this year, congratulating him on his recent appointment as Executive Director of the CPUC and asking for his help, in his new position, to correct an old injustice that occurred ten years ago during his previous tenure at the CPUC. A former Chief Counsel of the CPUC, Mr. Peter Arth, had vindictively reduced my retirement pension, following my federal court victory for discrimination. I had been told by a senior CalPERS executive that this could be corrected by a senior CPUC administrator

The second correspondence (Attachment B) is Dr. Ahern’s unprofessional response scrawled on the bottom of my letter of May 15, 2003.

The third correspondence (Attachment C) is my response to Dr. Ahern’s ill mannered reply.

Yours truly,