Wendy Sherman: “I will share the five proofs that there were no bars toward building plants in California. The first is it is simply not…”

“I will share the five proofs that there were no bars toward building plants in California. The first is it is simply not true. We are elected officials, some would say politicians. When a private company wants to build something big and they run into problems, that becomes an issue; and we all become aware of it. One of the first things they do is seek a meeting with whatever Members of Congress are in that area, with our friends in local government and State government; and sometimes we might support a project, sometimes we might think it is a bad project, but there is never a situation where there is a huge controversy over whether government will allow a big plant to be built and no politician knows about it. One cannot have a governmental controversy without having elected officials know about it. We know that there was not a situation where people wanted to build power plants and were not allowed to. The second proof is that for the 8 years of the prior Republican Governor, who, after all, served until just a couple of years ago, 8 years of a man who was often compared to then-Governor, now-President George Bush, not one plant was even applied for, not one, in a serious way.”