[HN Gopher] Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of p...
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Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of pledge to
protect Wall Street
Author : stefan_
Score : 115 points
Date : 2021-03-17 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.houstonchronicle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.houstonchronicle.com)
| commandlinefan wrote:
| This is what drives me crazy about all of the hand-wringing about
| the weather disaster we had down here a few weeks ago: liberals
| keep insisting that we Texans deserved it because we voted
| regulation-averse politicians into office here, but it was
| actually the regulators themselves who turned it from an
| inconvenience into a humanitarian crisis.
| incomplete wrote:
| > liberals keep insisting that we Texans deserved it because we
| voted regulation-averse politicians into office
|
| wow, that's quite a sweeping generalization right there. as a
| liberal, living in a very liberal part of the country, i can
| promise you that i never saw or heard anything but sympathy for
| all texans during that terrible time.
|
| i'm truly sorry that you feel that this was not the case.
| minikites wrote:
| Conservatives believe that liberals are just as spiteful as
| they are themselves.
| jessaustin wrote:
| I am similarly suspicious of the idea of collective guilt, but
| when we hire incompetents for a particular task we can't be
| surprised when that task is performed incompetently.
| hindsightbias wrote:
| > crazy
|
| Projection does not lead to rational behavior.
| FireBeyond wrote:
| I wonder how long before D'Andrea goes to work for an energy
| company?
|
| Also, people on the right screaming about how gas prices have
| gone up "under Biden", wilfully ignoring that 30% of Texas
| refineries were shut down for 2+ weeks.
| meowster wrote:
| No matter the side, I prefer Hacker News when comments aren't
| politicking.
| macintux wrote:
| Your very conservative governor insisted that you deserved it
| because you'd rather die than have the feds involved in your
| energy grid.
|
| Usually you have to paraphrase someone to make them sound that
| bad, but not lately.
| edbob wrote:
| He's not the governor, and I don't know anyone here (in
| Texas, not HN) that cares what he says.
|
| However, you did not paraphrase him so much as lie about what
| he said. "you deserved it because you'd rather die than have
| the feds involved in your energy grid" is not at all what
| Rick Perry said. The actual quote is "Texans would be without
| electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal
| government out of their business. Try not to let whatever the
| crisis of the day is take your eye off of having a resilient
| grid that keeps America safe personally, economically, and
| strategically." [0]
|
| [0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-texans-should-
| endu...
| rch wrote:
| https://archive.ph/cDsVD
| mmhsieh wrote:
| what makes this fella remarkable is only that he said the quiet
| part loud.
| stefan_ wrote:
| It's amazing. The best part for me was
|
| > "I went from being on a very hot seat to having one of the
| safest jobs in Texas"
|
| Some serious "seconds from disaster" energy there.
| brundolf wrote:
| Even better (from an article reporting on the original call):
|
| > "I think they probably enjoy having just one person up
| there because they can secure promises from me and I can't
| say, 'Oh, well, my fellow commissioners wouldn't go along.'
| It's easier for everyone, actually. At a time like this when
| I'm communicating all the time with the Legislature, it's
| easier to just be going through one person."
|
| Just... just really laying it all out there. "Hey guys, I can
| do whatever I want, let's make some back-room deals"
| minikites wrote:
| Conservatives recently realized that they can say the quiet
| part loud and not only will nobody punish them for it, more
| people will vote for you the louder you shout it.
| Tarsul wrote:
| only if you have clout. And never back down. So, you're right
| some [!] conservatives can say whatever they want and don't
| have to fret.
| akudha wrote:
| _insisted that repricing was illegal and potentially harmful to
| ratepayers_
|
| Is this really illegal? Even if it is, how can someone say it is
| harmful to ratepayers with a straight face?
| throwaway0a5e wrote:
| >had privately assured Bank of America analysts
|
| Knowing BofA I'm not at all surprised that people were recording
| the call.
| ethanbond wrote:
| Knowing anything at all about how the real world works, not
| surprised people were recording the call.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Everything is recorded now. Even a private one-on-one in-
| person conversation is likely being recorded. Did you check
| the other person's phone? Or ask them to leave it outside the
| room?
| [deleted]
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