PG&E has helped take down one governor, will Newsom be next? Dennis Wyatt Governor Gavin Newsom may soon learn the hard way trying to nurse a venomous snake back to health doesn’t mean it will be grateful and not eventually sink its fangs into you. Pacific Gas & Electric this week was caught doing what it does best — ignoring regulators so they can squeeze out the most profits to satisfy the hedge fund crowd. Not even a year after their top brass delivered their go to line of “we promise to do better” every time they steer PG&E ratepayers into a financial ditch following pleading guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter, they were back to their usual tricks.