The "old-boy" network is alive and well with the Bush/Cheney administration (see below):

Question and Answer from UniSource 2003 Earnings Conference Call, 18 February
2004. See www.unisource.com under SEC reports, SEC 14A on 2/19/2003

> The below is from the above transcript. It seems that UniSource's CEO doesn't
> know what this is all about.

> Quote:
> Rob Howard, Prospector Partners
>
> Yeah. Okay. We'll, I'll have to wait until the SEC filing is there to dig in
> that a little more for me. And any update on the Nogales power line at all? Is
> that still -
>
> Jim Pignatelli, UniSource Energy
>
> It's going along, we finally got the attention of - we went to the White
> House Energy Task Force, and we finally got the attention of the Forestry
> Department. We anticipate - we filed our EIS. DOE has completed that. We
> anticipate that the Forest Department might request us to make some slight
> modifications in the route. But finally, the department, the governmental
> department, federal departments are starting to work together. We're in -
> hopeful we should hear something in the next three months.
>
> End Quote