Just for some context:

The reporter is [link|http://www.gregpalast.com/|Greg Palast]. Author of <cite>The Best Democracy Money Can Buy</cite>. Investigative reporter who broke the [link|http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=33&row=1|Florida vote-rigging story], that still won't play in US news reports, in which 64,000 "felons" (most weren't, but shared a name, or an address, or nothing, with one) were purged from Florida election rolls, "in accordance" with state law (unfortunatly for supporters of this explanation, the law doesn't disenfranchise most of the even correctly identified felons).

Palast broke another story some time back, about an energy company so corrupt that even the E was crooked. Yep, that's right, Enron.

What's new with the Schwarzenegger/Enron story is the memos detailing the nature of the meetings. We've known about the fact of the meetings for the past couple of months. Arnold simply wasn't talking about this. [link|http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081903G.shtml|Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis], by Jason Leopold, August 17. Huffington was covering this [link|http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:HIDltK_kIG4J:lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-houston/2003-August/007335.html+schwarzenegger+enron&hl=en&ie=UTF-8|August 15] (Google cache, original site unreachable). And for those of us who lived with rolling blackouts, the story is still very fresh.

Ironically, power is far more significant to Joe Sixpack in Arnold's heartland: SoCal and the Central Valley -- where life without air conditioning is not possible.

Big news.