Bob Filner: “Exactly. Not only were they making profits, I had thousands of people at plants in San Diego being sent home because…”

“Exactly. Not only were they making profits, I had thousands of people at plants in San Diego being sent home because their places of employment were blacked out or they had certain agreements with the utilities that they had to turn down their power during a stage-3 alert. So we have the incredible situation of blackouts in San Diego and other parts of the State, almost fatal collisions, by the way, at intersections as the lights went out, possible health fatalities, businesses. I had the biggest business in my district, one of the biggest businesses in my district come to me recently and say, they are going to have to leave San Diego and California because they cannot live with this uncertainty. So we have the power. The power is there. By the way, when we asked them why they did not produce, a TV station had talked to one of the people working there, and they revealed the logs and they said, they just turned it off. First they told me, well, we turned it off because there was environmental problems, restrictions, and we went to the air quality board and they said, that is a lie, there is no restrictions. They said there were mechanical problems, but the mechanics there said there were none. Then they said the system operator in the State did not ask them; it turned out that they did. So we have this incredible situation.”