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here you go. I sent a copy to Linda Robertson too so she'd be in the know.
----- Forwarded by Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron on 01/24/2001 11:01 AM ----- Susan M Landwehr 01/23/2001 09:52 PM To: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Western Governors update All--had a good meeting with Governor Owens today. Also in attendance were Roy Palmer (chief of staff), Alan Philp (special assistant), Joel Harris (senior policy aide to the governor). The good Governor stated his strong disagreement of price caps and that he would oppose any efforts to impose them on the western states. He will be a stong ally for us in this debate. He stopped short of offering to "rally the republican troops", but did offer that he thought most of his colleagues would be of the same mindset. He will not be attending the Feb 2 meeting, but his policy guy is empowered to speak/vote on his behalf if any type of vote comes before the WGA membership at that time. Since this WGA debate is probably going to continue into 2001, we will plan on keeping in close touch with Gov. Owens and his staff. The Governor will be attending a world economic summit in Davos starting tomorrow, and indicated that he will be having dinner with Ken Lay at that event. He again stated his appreciation for Mr. Lay's support in the past as well as his high regard for Mr. Lay's business practices. I have invited the Governor'spolicy folks to tour our trading floor on Thursday Feb 1 in Portland if they come in early. I have also promised them an outline of possible solutions/ideas that could be considered by the WGA instead of price caps. Paul has already put a draft together of such a document, and we will make sure that everyone on this list sees a copy of our ideas before sending them on. ----- Forwarded by Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron on 01/23/2001 09:26 PM ----- Susan M Landwehr 01/21/2001 11:03 PM To: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT Subject: Western Governors update Jim et al---Paul and I have a meeting in Denver on Tuesday with Governor Bill Owen's chief of staff (Roy Palmer) and two of his policy guys. The Governor is expected to stop in for a few minutes. I also had the occasion to talk with Gov Owens this weekend in Washington DC, and I he articulated his support for "market" solutions. He also will be an individual that we can count on to know the issues....he apparently was a lobbyist at one time for the oil and gas industry. Also, Gov Owens mentioned that he had breakfast with Ken Lay sometime in the last few months and that he had received support from Ken in the past. Can we find out what support Owens was given? (I got the sense that it might have been some money dedicated to a community or government program...maybe the Aspen Institute? And it sounded like he had gotten some $ for his campaign) Unfortunately, Gov Owens will be leaving for an overseas trip this week and will not be attending the Feb 2 meeting in Portland, so our hope that he would be a stong voice at the meeting is not going to happen. I think that we can get some good work done with the staff, and good support in the long term, but we need to look beyond Owens for this meeting. I got the sense over the weekend that Kempthorne is going to be pretty active on this issue, and since he is the chair of the WGA, he will be running the meeting. In talking with FERC Commissioner Hebert at one of the inaugural events, he indicated that Kempthorne seemed to be pretty reluctant to take on the mantle of market solutions. Paul has a meeing with Kempthorne's office on Friday of this week, so we'll be working on convincing him to be an advocate. As you know, Jim Souby from WGA did eventually make room on the panel for the FEB 2 meeting for us. A letter of invitation should be on it's way to Steve Kean if it has not already been received. I saw Hap Boyd and he says that Enron Wind is participating on Feb. 2 in the afternoon session.
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