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Article: Power Plays in Energy Crisis.(Gray Davis and incoming Los Angeles Mayor, James Hahn)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 11, 2001
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Hahn, Davis Face Showdown
L.A. Mayor-elect James Hahn is already facing his first major crisis.
A showdown between Hahn, who doesn't even get sworn in until July 1, and Gov. Gray Davis over L.A.'s municipal power is emerging. And it threatens to poison relations between the incoming mayor and the embattled governor for months to come.
At the center of the dispute: charges by Davis that the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and other public-sector utilities are gouging the state with their sales of excess power. Davis singled out the DWP, which earned more than $200 million in profits last year from the sale of power to the now-defunct ...