Tony Strickland mailers would make you believe that the candidate is busy protecting the income of hardworking families and businesses. Not true.

Ask Strickland about his lawsuit to stop the state from negotiating a long-term power deal. He claims it saved us all money, but here's the truth.

California was negotiating a deal that would have provided us electricity at $70m/h through 2023.

Strickland and his power company friends sued to stop that deal.

Now California's power costs are over $110m/h and climbing steadily.

Instead of offering the lowest electricity rates for the next 15 years, which would have attracted businesses, jobs and higher state revenues, California now has the highest rates in the nation and is losing businesses, jobs and revenues.

We're losing billions of dollars each year because Strickland chose to support his energy company pals instead of Californian families and businesses.

That's irresponsible, and it's wrong. Gary Selvaggio The Knolls