Thanks Bob for this article detailing the way power companies are allowed to operate against the best interests of the California ratepayer:
http://calwatchdog.com/2017/02/07/lack-competition-leading-costly-electricity-glut/
“Companies are granted an electricity monopoly for a particular region, then are guaranteed a hefty rate of return for the infrastructure investments they make.”
“This price system, critics say, results in unforeseen consequences. A recent investigative report found that California’s utility companies have been involved in a power-plant building spree, even though Californians have significantly cut their electricity usage over the same time period. In three years, the state is projected to be producing 21 percent more electricity than it needs, without counting the growth in rooftop-solar applications, reported the Los Angeles Times.”
Chico Taxpayers Association 
Another pension article that will make your blood boil…
With pension reform looming, these California departments went on a hiring spree
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article132104954.html
sheesh – look at the Taj Majal headquarters!
I don’t know what to say any more, except that the politicians and bureaucrats play the public for suckers. And they play them like a violin!