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News Archive - Web Logs - Press Releases Aug 04, 2004 - 11:00 AM Hiram Johnson He Is Notby Doug HellerEver the audacious governor, Arnold compared himself yesterday to California's most important Constitutional reformer, Governor Hiram Johnson. "Johnson did not call the lobbyists or the union bosses. No, he went directly to the people. Ninety-four years later, we will do exactly the same," the Gov said of his newly released "California Performance Review." Arnold, puh-leeze! Before any regular Californian got a peek at the finished product, the Gov did call the lobbyists. His team interviewed them, tapped them for info, took their ideas, and thanked them for their work. The California Performance Review is not a document of the people. It's of Microsoft by Chevron and for Kaiser Permanente. (Each are also donors to Arnold). In fact, to see how deep the deception runs, compare list below with Arnold's donors -- click here to read the top 100 http://www.arnoldwatch.org/special_interests/index.html-- and you'll find that more than a third of the corporate lobbyists Arnold asked to restructure government have also made contributions to the Gov.) Californians deserve to know what really transpired behind the closed doors during the five months of private meetings that led to this review. ArnoldWatch's sponsor, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, has called for a full rendering of what went on, who said what and how much influence the special interests had over this plan to rip the guts out of California government. As proof that Arnold has not followed in Hiram's footsteps here is the "California Special Interest Review," a partial list of corporations and their lobbyists that Arnold called on long before he went to the people: Accenture ACS AON Risk Services Automotive Repair Coalition BP Oil Bristol-Meyers Squibb Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway California American Water California Association of Health Facilities California Association of Health Plans California Building Industry Association California Chamber of Commerce California Grocers Association California Health Facilities Association California Healthcare Association California Manufacturing and Technology Association California Motor Car Dealers Association Calpine Chevron Cisco Systems Citrix Systems Deloitte Dow Chemical Electronic Data Systems General Electric Governmental Advocates, Inc. (corporate lobbying firm) Health Net Hewlett Packard IBM Intel J.P. Morgan Kahl/Pownall Advocates (corporate lobbying firm) Kaiser Livingston and Mattesich (corporate lobbying firm) Microsoft Mirant Molina Health Care Nielsen, Merksamer, Parinello, Mueller & Naylor (corporate lobbying firm) Nossaman Gunther Knox Elliott (corporate lobbying firm) Oracle Pacific Gas & Electric Pfizer Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America Pitney Bowes PricewaterhouseCoopers Qwest SAP America SBC Siebel Systems Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates (corporate lobbying firm) Southern California Edison Southwest Airlines State Farm Sutter Health United Airlines Waste Management, Inc Wellpoint, Inc Xerox  back to top--------------- E-mail comments to ArnoldWatch at arnoldwatch@consumerwatchdog.org |
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