Original sentence: An electricity shortage and rolling blackouts in the summer of 2001 contributed to massive state debt — and widespread grumbling about Davis's administration — as California chose to negotiate unfavorable long-term contracts with power suppliers in neighboring states.Davis also took criticism for continuing to raise spending in the state budget while revenues were dropping.Davis's popularity recovered somewhat months later as the crisis subsided and popular blame for the shortage was assigned in part to alleged market manipulation by companies such as Enron, though his buckling to the resultant price-gouging remained a negative factor in his 2002 re-election bid
Edited sentence: An electricity shortage in the summer of 2001 led to massive state debt — and widespread grumbling about Davis's administration — as California chose to negotiate unfavorable long-term contracts with power suppliers in neighboring states.Davis's popularity recovered somewhat months later as the shortage was shown to be at least in part manufactured by market manipulation by companies such as Enron, though his buckling to the resultant price-gouging remained a negative factor in his 2002 re-election bid