A pretty good crowd showed up in front of PG&E yesterday to make their voices heard about the multi-million Prop 16 ploy by the company.

From the Marin IJ:

“A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokeswoman told the California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday that the investor-owned utility is spending millions of dollars to pass Proposition 16 because it wants to protect California taxpayers.

But Shawn Marshall, vice chairwoman of the Marin Energy Authority, told the commission that she and other critics of the initiative have their own name for the June ballot measure: “The monopoly protection act.”"

The Chronicle also has coverage, and of a meeting of the PUC [Public Utilities Commission] where, not unsurprisingly, former mayor Willie Brown declared his support for the notorious, PG&E sponsored and funded Prop 16.

At an unusual hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission, public officials and consumer advocates on Wednesday urged the commissioners to oppose Proposition 16. The initiative, on the June 8 ballot, would amend the state Constitution, requiring local governments that want to enter the electricity business to win the approval of two-thirds of their voters first.

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