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DECEMBER 2017
December 5, 2017: So where does Mr. NON-open/transparent Reynolds, get his bullshit rhetoric? Well, APPARENTLY its part of the Shitoval propaganda, to those he anoints, err, appoints to commissions/boards. Seems that another Shitoval brown-noser, Steven Hill, is trying to entice Amazon to come here, WITHOUT RELEASING any of the DETAILS of this behind the scenes discussions. “The existence and nature of all discussions with the company,” said GOED Executive Director Steve Hill in a letter, “and all information related to the company’s business, including without limitation information related to the company’s plans, opportunities, proposed terms and know-how, whether via written, oral or other means of communication, are confidential information of the company.” So fucking PROVIDE the STATE’S RESPONSES, OFFERINGS, etc! Such as: “The Governor’s Office of Economic Development did just that. It gave Amazon a secret bid.” That’s NOT Amazon’s work papers produced by the GOED, its STATE WORK PAPERS, done by a STATE AGENCY! PUKE’S own Danny Boy pulled the SAME FUCKING BULLSHIT, when asked for info related to a docket! WELL, WELL! Lookie lookie! Our boy Peter sends out a press release that Barbie is now a Director, on an ‘arm’ of NARUC. Guess they want a ‘body’ to use as a ‘bad example’, as her ONGOING qualifications are, how NOT to run an office. Will Barbie be telling them, how to fuck up submitting information to a state division and DENYING culpability for said fuck ups? Um, did she take out her knee pads while in San Diego during the summer NARUC Conference, to get votes for this, ANOTHER UNQUALIFIED position for her? “The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) announces that its Executive Director Stephanie Mullen has been appointed to serve as the executive management member of the Board of Directors of the National Regulatory Research Institute, which provides research and information on best practices and procedures to public utility commissions throughout the nation. "I am proud that Director Mullen is being nationally recognized for her hard work at the PUCN and that she will be able to share what we are doing here in Nevada and continue to learn what we can do better," said PUCN Chairman Joe Reynolds. "I am honored by my appointment to the Board," said Director Mullen, "and I look forward to working with my national colleagues on ways to improve utility regulation and management practices at the PUCN." Director Mullen has served as the Executive Director of the PUCN since 2015, and will continue in this position while also serving on the Board.” Now, saying that PUKE is sending out info about new hires, is this Joey’s idea of open and transparent? Why did he wait until now, to disclose about Boris returning to PUKE? As this site broke the news previously about Connie coming to PUKE. Now, there is a new name, who used to be a partner in a Colorado Law Firm, and they are coming BACK to PUKE? When did THIS EXTRA ATTORNEY be OFFERED? As fuck-up Barbie went to get MORE MONEY to HIRE attorneys and those were FILLED by BORIS & CONNIE! Where did this EXTRA money come from? Or was it PART of the NON-RECONCILABLE budget Barbie requested? INQUIRING RATEPAYERS want to know! December 6, 2017: There were TWO, SECOND consumer sessions held today. LIKE there WAS prior to “Keep ‘em quiet” Joey, came on board, but, because he was PRESSURED on September 11th & 12th, to bring back the 1pm session. Which he BADLY acted, like it was a REVELATION and HIS idea. Now, WHY did Puke’s ‘Elite’ aka Joey, need to bring his ONGOING entourage member, Halley down to Vegas? So she’s with Boy Toy’s department…So is MATT FOX, who is located in Vegas…ummm, Joey ‘Self-Proclaimed’ Celebrity Status had lil Halley with him while going to the Legislature…along with BARBIE! Ummmmmmmmmm, inquiring minds want to know, why Halley is worth the plane ticket, while Matt was already here? Is Joey afraid to fly and needed his own personal ‘emotional support human’ as opposed to an ‘emotional support animal’? Now, ANY PROFESSIONAL, EXECUTIVE, LEADER, etc., would be able to MAINTAIN control during a public meeting, right? Not Joey Baby! He let his ‘pets’ aka solar peeps, interrupt with comments when someone was speaking, along with spontaneous clapping. Not just ONCE, but CONSTANTLY! Yet, he fucking makes sure NO ONE does it during the public comment periods at agenda meetings! At the 1pm session, his ‘mission’ to endorse/adore/promote solar, there was ANOTHER ‘vote’, of those who favored solar. The speaker ‘called’ for those in ‘support’ to stand, just like back in September. This time ‘Lets skew the results Joey’, claimed that EVERYONE stood up. Even though he saw me SITTING, as I was directly in his line of sight clearly remaining seated. After my comment I went on the record, to DISCREDIT his ‘survey analysis’, that I did not stand! There SHOULD have been a THIRD consumer session. As the events that lead to a second one, was just mirrored and should have been ADDRESSED! Kostos the PR guy, pulled shit, that only those, who know PUKE’S MO would have picked up on. Apparently ‘Lets piss off ratepayers, by withholding relevant info’, Joey, had Kostes, issue the CONSUMER SESSION NOTICE OVER 2 WEEKS EARLY! What is HIGHLY RELEVANT is that by issuing the PR on 11/17, WHEN FILED TESTIMONY WAS DUE ON 11/22, that REFUTED the BULLSHIT Kostes put in his PREMATURE PR! November 17th PR CLAIMED that NVE offered options regarding the GRC RATE INCREASE! When on the 22nd, there was FILED TESTIMONY RESCINDING ANY INCREASES! So much for Puke’s IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST RHETORIC! Joey wanted people complaining, so that when the DRAFT ORDER comes to the agenda meeting, he can claim NO INCREASE, as IF IT WAS his DOING! Here’s a recap of PR’s from Kostes regarding notification of consumer sessions: Date of release Date of Consumer Session11/17 12/6 19 DAYS 9/8 9/11 3 days 9/5 9/12 7 days 6/28 7/6-7 8 days 6/2 6/9 7 days 6/1 6/8 7 days 5/30 6/2 3 days 4/11 4/19 8 days The PROOF is there….NO OTHER REASON to submit a PR so EARLY, EXCEPT to CIRCUMVENT having to DISCLOSE the REVOCATION of the GRC INCREASE. Why couldn’t Kostes wait until 11/22 or later to release it…CAN’T HAVE AN EDUCATED presence of ratepayers, who are not ‘hot under the collar’, over CONCERTED PROPAGANDA…Bullshit tactics like this may make for ‘good press’, but fucking LIES/DECEPTIONS WILL NOT be tolerated! Manipulation works on LIBS/SNOWFLAKES, not on people who elect to ENGAGE IN DUE DILIGENCE! YOUR SCAM HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AND MADE PUBLIC…THAT PR FAILED TO CON EVERY RATEPAYER! My NEW MANTRA: CANON 1 Rule 1.2 Promoting Confidence in the Judiciary- A judge shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. Then one lady spoke, who said she was a ‘Jazz Singer’, stating she had to ‘evolve’ to keep up with the change of genre in music, then went on to do a Readers Digest version of her CV on who she sang with, ah, so RELEVANT to the proceeding. Of course, Joey had to INTERACT with her, AGAIN, so germane to the proceeding. At least we DIDN’T have to endure his legal ancestry! Then the ‘I won’t interact with those who don’t agree with me’, Joey, chit chatted with her afterwards. Of course this was noticed and a highly vocal comment was made! December 15, 2017: Rumors have been floating around Cartoon City for a while, that BriBri’s wife, put her foot down regarding him running for another office. Rumor has it, she wanted him to get a ‘real’ job. Today it was announced that BriBri and his wife have separated and SHE is filing for divorce. OMG! Ass-kissing Joey must be traumatized! Who is going to get him in the divorce settlement? Will BriBri and his wife, split custody over Joey and his wife since she is BriBri’s new GC? Ok, to quote BriBri’s press release: “After 27 years of marriage, Kathleen and I have decided to separate and plan to divorce. It’s no secret that the demands of public life are hard on a marriage and ours has been affected in a way neither of us had envisioned or expected. We both remain committed to our three children and we ask that our privacy, and the privacy of all of our family members, be respected during this difficult time.” If his marriage and family were so centric/germane to him, HE COULD HAVE RESIGNED! But he is so OBSESSED with politics and being in the PUBLIC EYE, his family took a backseat to his ego apparently! He could have resigned and let his Lt. Governor Mark Hutchinson take over! So there must have been some truth in that rumor about running for office, that she was not going to tolerate. There are two rumors floating around up in Cartoon City; 1. He is going to run against Heller for US Senate; 2. Plans to run for President in 2020! Oh, yeah, a Latino Obama in 2020…God FORBID! According to the 360Daily: “According to several sources who did not want to be identified, an affair or affairs may be at the root of the breakup.” Given BriBri’s propensity for media coverage, trying to have an affair would be extremely difficult...unless, it was with someone who the public and others would never suspect? Only time will tell! Why announce this right before the holidays? Why couldn’t it wait…or was there a ‘leak’ and he wanted to be the ‘one’ to make it public? He should have put aside his ever increasing ego and not ruin the holidays for his kids, especially his youngest one!December 18, 2017: It appears from a rumor I heard, that Bozo Brucie ACTUALLY made a salient comment about the SWG docket 17-11008! Now, here’s some points that PUKE needs to INVESTIGATE & ENACT: 1. SWG and the city of Mesquite never cite one specific business that did not come to Mesquite solely because there is no natural gas service; the claims are all speculation and conjecture with no hard evidence to back them up. There are plenty of other reasons why businesses, despite any incentives, would not choose to locate in Mesquite. Among them: a) lack of sufficient, trained employees, b) lack of water (I'll describe that one in greater detail later on.), 3) lack of ancillary support services (St. George, UT is +40 miles away and LV +70 miles), and 4) lack of housing for employees both in Mesquite and the greater Moapa Valley (total population only 8,300, including Bunkerville and the Indian reservation population) and the only other human habitation between Mesquite and Las Vegas.2. The manner in which SWG conducted their public sessions and the on-line survey on the city of Mesquite's web site (www.mesquite.nv.gov/ng leading to https://survey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV81zuTeAqFqsqzFH) indicates no disclosure of potential project costs to those polled. Claiming an 89% level of interest without detailing the steps taken to disclose the project and all of its costs suggests deceptive practices were employed to artificially increase the interest numbers. SWG's narrative speaks in generalities about gathering current costs from those who showed up, but no disclosure of SWG's initiative brought down to how much each resident or business owner would need to invest out of their own pockets. There are two pieces to the cost component: "to the meter" expense and plumbing work required on private property from the meter to the building and into the building, plus either retrofitting or replacing appliances to accommodate natural gas. If someone has propane appliances, those appliances will not work with natural gas. Even with the MAEC subsidy program being proposed by SWG and funded by ratepayers elsewhere in southern Nevada who derive no substantive benefit by subsidizing the economic development of a distant and isolated area of Clark county, the costs of the second component will easily exceed $10,000 for the average single-family house and are not part of the MAEC program. This feeble and slanted attempt to quell objections raised during the 15-05025 workshops about requiring an accurate and honest calculation of prospective demand before even proceeding with an application fails on its face. 3. The MAEC subsidy of up to $8,736 for single-family homes divided into the $3.5 million allocated for 'to the meter' costs means only 400 homes will receive this subsidy. With the type of massive development envisioned by city officials and passed-through by SWG in its assumptions, only 400 homes could receive this subsidy, a small fraction of the total foreseen. 4. Stated another way, the overly-optimistic SWG natural gas projection assumptions assembled by their consultant, IHSM, call for only 2,250 residential connections and 31 commercial connections by the year 2035 after spending at least $36.6 million of ratepayer money in just the first 10 years of that 18-year future. Mesquite currently has 19,000 residents. 5. The proposed new service territory completely bypasses existing Mesquite and only proposes to service new commercial and industrial properties on the southwest and northwest sides of town, plus 20,000 anticipated new homes on the north side of town and going into southern Lincoln county, for which there is inadequate water. Mesquite receives its water through the Virgin Valley Water Authority, which has multiple wells needing arsenic remediation, including big ones in southern Lincoln county. It does not (cannot?) use the Virgin river for its domestic water supply. 6. In the mass home development business, it is usual and customary for the developer to bring all utilities and infrastructure to the new development, and pay for those with a combination of general improvement districts and/or inclusion in the purchase price of developed buildings, not passing those costs off to a distant populace that receives no direct and little indirect benefit from such projects. 7. Lincoln county's Planning department's web page (no formal plan posted) says it wants to grow from 4,400 to 250,000 in population over the next 40 years; however, there is no employment, no compelling reason for people to move to Lincoln county and there are no present services or government infrastructure (roads, electricity, sewers, public employees, fire, sheriff, etc.) to support that type of population growth. Moreover, if the Las Vegas Valley Water District ultimately succeeds in securing a substantial portion of eastern Nevada's water, there will be no adequate water supply for Mesquite, or anyone else in the area to support massive growth. SWG and the city of Mesquite does not address the water problem facing Mesquite and southern Lincoln county in the SWG expansion application and the projections based on the supply constraints of Water Basin 255.. 8. Growth of service connections has been unrealistically straight lined through all seasons of the 10-year projections, which fails to account for seasonal weather changes and the inevitable building delays that occur with any construction project. 9. That new single-family natural gas customers in Mesquite would pay only $286/year toward the cost of facilities extension, with the balance of the $8,736 covered by other ratepayers is lopsided cost sharing and naked subsidization of an area (Mesquite) that is largely disconnected from the majority of ratepayers in southern Nevada. 10. It is a logical extension to note that southern Nevada natural gas ratepayers are being asked to subsidize businesses to locate away from the metro Las Vegas Valley and into Mesquite, when those businesses would naturally gravitate toward and consider metro Las Vegas for new or expanded business/economic development. 11. The 'virtual' service with above-ground, temporary tanks mounted to trailers is a material safety hazard that could lead to another San Bruno-style explosion if an errant vehicle runs into one of the trailers/tanks. 12. Even though SB 151 doesn't define financial criteria for prudent economic development projects, let's use SWG's own numbers. 'Economic activity' is not the same as actually paying back ratepayers for the $30 million, or $36.6 million including the years' two through 10 capital investments). As an investment, it is horrible because of inadequate return of and return on capital spent. I don't believe the validity of SWG's numbers and the circumlocutions of their consulting firm, but even IHMS' ginning up those numbers nets only $23 million of 'economic benefit.' Would the Legislature, or any rational person, think it prudent to spend $36.6 million to return $23 million of 'economic activity,' which is not the same as $36.6 million of new revenue to pay back the original capital investment to ratepayers or the communities required to pay for this project? IHMS' de novo tax projections for SWG suggest only $2.03 million of state and local tax revenues for the first 10 years of the project if all of the lofty assumptions of businesses and new houses materializing and taking natural gas service come true. Positioned against $36.6 million of investment, this is a bad 'economic development' project. 13. Without spending this money, businesses could take advantage of NV's generally favorable tax structure and locate somewhere in metro Las Vegas where existing utility infrastructure, highways, rail lines, labor pools, services and housing are readily available rather than placing themselves in the middle of nowhere. The Union Pacific main line doesn't even pass through or close to Mesquite, eliminating the types of businesses dependent upon rail freight. 14. Potentially creating seven ongoing jobs at SWG after spending $36.6 million does not justify this initiative, and that assumes that the projected 2,281 customers sign up for service by year 2035. 15. SWG is paid, plus their approved rate of return, whether one or 1,000 sign ups occur in Mesquite; it increases SWG's rate base and revenues regardless of how many people sign up for service. 16. An irregularity potentially appears between SWG's Estimated Revenue Requirement for the expansion, where 8.78% shows by taking $2,544,607 of Return on Investment and Income Taxes and dividing it into $28,981,583 of Rate Base compared against the company's year-end income statement from 6/30.2017 showing $722,763,807 of operating revenue and $86,459,588 of net income, or 11.96% of net profit rather than 8.78%, the PUCN 'authorized rate of return.' Granted SWG has material operations in Arizona and on a very small basis in California. And granted there may be some arcane accounting adjustments this writer is completely unaware of, but the discrepancy of over 3% bears highlighting just the same. 17. Is there enough surplus capacity in the Kern River pipeline to service the SWG-envisioned expansion at full build out? Will SWG ratepayers have to cover reservation costs of unused pipeline capacity so that it is not committed to another utility? 18. What happens if the growth projections underlying SWG's financial assumptions fail to be realized? Will Mesquite ratepayers be asked for more money, or will geographically-disconnected southern Nevada ratepayers need to make up the difference? Is there to be some cap placed on how much southern Nevada ratepayers would subsidize Mesquite if the PUCN foolishly approves this project on some basis? December 19, 2017: Some people on the 25th will be getting REAL presents…Others like Danny Boy Haggarity, will not even be getting a sack of coal under his tree…He has until 5pm on December 21, 2017, otherwise he gets a NV BAR COMPLAINT for Christmas! If this little snot-nosed bastard, thinks he can fuck with FOIA requests, under the fucking bullshit guise of OVER-LOADED RESPONSES, he better be ready for CONSEQUENCES!!! You would THINK after ALL THIS TIME, his bullshit is not being tolerated…he needs a FULL LOBOTOMY…to ADD something into that vacuous space in his so-called ‘brain’!! The
records request has NOTHING to do with what the
Commission and DRO do regarding dockets.
December 21, 2017: CLOCK IS TICKING DANNY BOY! December 26, 2017: Since the GRC Draft Order was filed on Dec. 22nd, I SINCERELY hope that Joey got his brains fucked out for Christmas…as his DSB is DEFINITELY impacting his neuro-cognitive executive functioning…what LITTLE he has! He has the UNMITIGATED GAUL to use the term “HISTORIC” regarding his DECREASE of a WHOPPING $0.25/month, for Southern NV BSC! All this is, is the epitome of smoke/mirrors, to appease Shitoval, to make him look ‘good’ for appointing Doughy Joey…and the ultimate Fuck You to NVE. This is the WORST attempt at DAMAGE CONTROL I have ever seen! What, you want to get the public to PERCEIVE you as the GOOD GUYS? LOL I’ll NEVER get the time back, it took to read thru this bullshit Draft Order, 148 pages of rambling from Bloviating Reynolds!December 27, 2017: The following is brought to you, by the RECOMMENDATION TO IMBIBE PHENOTHIAZINE PRIOR TO READING it! This has been a PSA! An obvious DEFLECTION to take the spotlight off of BriBri and his divorce. Apparently, bloviating Joey was NOT hooked up to a lie detector!December 28, 2017: So Bloviating Joey gets to promote his ILLUSTRIOUS views and how he USES the BEATLES, BOB DYLAN and/or U2 to HELP with PHILOSOPHICAL issues, in The Nevada Independent. “I mean we have lots of books in our house, and I guess I look sometimes to literature and authors and even music for points of reference sometimes when I’m trying to understand issues. I mean I look to the law as well, but when we get into areas of philosophy and things of that sort, I look to sometimes what I think are wise authors. Q: Well you quoted the Beatles, right, in one of your opinions? A: I did. I consider Lennon and McCartney. I’ve put them in my own mind in that category. I’ll put Bob Dylan up there too.” I guess in all the articles regarding the aforementioned musical talents…they OMITTED the fact that they HAD UTILITY REGULATION KNOWLEDGE! Now, we have on the OPPOSITE end of this ‘public interview’ exposure; ESPN, a MAJOR SPORTS ASSOCIATION, on December 20, 2017, comes to Joey’s Bona Fide PROUD Nemesis, to INTERVIEW them. NO CHANNELING or BODY/MIND INTEGRATION of singers…for SCIENCE/MEDICAL comments, on a sports hypothesis. I guess Brucie, Nevada’s own Howard Cosell wannabe, wasn’t able to provide to them, a factual statement: “Air quality in Vegas is a factor in the Flu. There's the desert air that leaves noses and throats feeling raw. But then there's the combination of tobacco smoke and the artificial fragrances used to cover it that's found in nearly every casino hotel. It's a combination that one organization believes is toxic. "The chemicals that create the so-called ambience in the casinos tend to interact with the smoke and create a synergistic effect. So you're really creating another problem," said Angel DeFazio, president of the Las Vegas-based National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation, an advocacy organization that supports those adversely affected by everyday chemicals and toxins. "There are a lot of casino workers that have gotten sick through the air freshening systems. They tend to have asthma-like symptoms that clear up when they leave the casino. The medical term for this is R.A.D.S. -- Reactive Airway Disorder Syndrome." (For the record, this does not sound rad.)” (Green highlight for the environment, get it?) I’ll look to PUBMED for my POINTS OF REFERENCE! REMEMBER the DETERMINATION of NOXIOUS VOC’s in PUKE’S Diablo Office, was ASSERTED, PRIOR to receiving the IAQ report, see October 16th and 17th posts! From October 16th: “I WILL SAY WITH 1000000000000000% ASSURITY, I WILL FIND, if they RELEASE the FULL & UNREDACTED copies: FORMALDEHYDE, CARBON TETRACHLORIDE, BENZENE, ACETONE, METHYLENE CHLORIDE, ETHANOL & CHLOROFORM among others!”WHICH WAS FOUND IN THE REPORT! I REST MY CASE! December 29, 2017: The GRC was heard today. After reading thru the 148 pages, it was APPARENT this was a CONCERTED BAIT & SWITCH draft order! Deflecting the pending costs to enact the bullshit legislation that was just passed, with his HISTORIC reduction addressed in the draft order. After reading Joey’s ‘interview’, there was NO WAY to NOT address his RELIANCE upon the Beatles for philosophy assistance. So it was NECESSARY to pay HOMAGE, to the Beatles and make a comment using their song titles during the public comment period. I had a hard time saying, rather than singing the titles lol! I had HOPED to cause him to bust out laughing, once he realized what I was using. INSTEAD he put his head down trying to hide the obvious smirk when he realized it LOL Was going to reference the song ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’, (supposedly about the needle used to inject smack), that he should use it for Valium to deal with ratepayers lol, but, seeing they were traumatized from the greenies with the gun issue, I figured he would perceive it as a threat and try to use it against me. In the TRUE SPIRIT of being OPEN & TRANSPARENT, Prevaricator Joey was put on notice, if there are ANY INCREASES, after his diatribe about his HISTORIC REDUCTION, its going to come back and bite him on the ass. Along with the fact, that there were OPEN DOCKETS that WILL IMPACT ratepayers, causing rates to GO UP before 2020! Fugazy Joey needs to REMOVE his bullshit blinders and be PREPARED TO NOT charge ANY FEES to ANY RATEPAYERS for the following: 1. Energy Efficient Budget; 2. Renewable battery storage; 3. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure! As these programs are NOT going to FUND THEMSELVES! What you are going to fucking print Monopoly Money? What is this COMMON CORE UTILITY ECONOMICS? We want you to ignore the fact that these programs are going to INCREASE your bills, CONCENTRATE on our HISTORIC BSC REDUCTION! AKA look at this NICE, SHINY, quarter, you will save EVERY month for the next 3 years, while we fuck you up the ass, with a MATURE Saguaro Cactus, to fund these programs we don’t want you to pay attention to! Joey’s closing comment referenced, guess who? LOL The Beatles…All you need is love, I was SERIOUSLY tempted to go back and respond with ‘I’ll Be Back’!
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