LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators are suing California for defying an order to dissolve the board that oversees much of the state's electricity grid.
The lawsuit was filed Friday, nine days after Gov. Gray Davis' appointees to the board of California's Independent System Operator voted to ignore the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order.
FERC, the nation's top regulator of wholesale electricity, told the ISO to disband and create a board free of political influence, a move that Davis, a Democrat, had charged was "nothing less than a hostile takeover of California's electricity grid by the federal government."
FERC is made up of a majority of Republicans appointed by President Bush.
They're basically ordering Davis to allow the foxes to guard the henhouse.
sweeeet.