We interrupt this blog for something NOT about WoW . . .

Namely Prop 16, on Tuesday's CA statewide ballot.

Every day, Jameece and I get some kind of mailing form the PG&E front group behind this latest perversion of the initiative system by wealthy interests. PG&E is apparently feeling the heat over how localities are forming power agencies to get away from PG&E. A couple of years ago, PG&E went to the mat to stop West Sacramento and parts of Yolo County from joining the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and succeeded by the slimmest of margins at the polls.

Now PG&E wants to load the electoral dice by requiring a 2/3rds super majority on any such vote to form a public power entity. Cloaking its naked greed in the language of anti-tax and anti-government populism like a sheepskin over a ravenous wolf, PG&E is hoping that "conservative" voters -- those who might be receptive to anti-tax, anti-government arguments -- will turn out in droves and gives the greedbags at PG&E what they want.

The problem with this plan is that voters can see right through a campaign of lies and distortions. And this plan is being sold with more lies than a used car.

Personally, I think public power is the way to go. I've lived in three public-power towns -- Sacramento, Lodi and Idaho Falls, ID -- and electricity rates were damned reasonable and service was top-notch. Whenever I've had to live in PG&E territory -- 2004-5 and since moving to Fresno this winter -- rates are astronomical and service is abysmal to indifferent.

Why deny the boon of Public Power to other communities by rigging the game in favor of the only other player at the table? If there was ever a special interest proposition, this is it.

If you vote in California, I urge not only a NO vote on Prop 16, but a HELL NO! vote.