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LA Mayor Will Cut Power, Water To Homes And Businesses That Disobey Him
Federalist ^

Posted on 08/06/2020 9:41:46 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that he ordered the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to cut off the water and electricity to any homes, venues, or businesses in violation of COVID-19 safety measures.

In April, Garcetti enacted a similar order that applied to any non-essential businesses that defied his “Safer at Home” mandate.

The announcement comes just days after Los Angeles police responded to a “gang related” shooting at a large house party in Beverly Crest. According to Garcetti, this order will help limit people’s right to assemble.

“We’ve been clear from the beginning that getting together in groups outside of your household is not permitted, is not allowed. We’ve asked Angelenos not to gather or have parties,” Garcetti began.

“By turning off that power, shutting off that water we feel we can close these places down, which usually are not one-time offenders but multiple-offenders,” he added.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: again; beverlycrest; businesses; california; chinavirus; churchgatherings; covid; dictator; ericgarcetti; garcetti; homes; lamayor; losangeles; macarthur; madmaxine; maxinewaters; newsom; utilities; virus
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1 posted on 08/06/2020 9:41:46 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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Lawsuit.


2 posted on 08/06/2020 9:43:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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What authority?


3 posted on 08/06/2020 9:45:00 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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4 posted on 08/06/2020 9:45:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Bigtigermike

It’s very interesting watching mayors and governors making up rules etc and exerting their powers throughout this covid virus.......I’ve never seen so many acting on their own and often having little to do with the virus itself.


5 posted on 08/06/2020 9:46:01 AM PDT by caww
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To: Bigtigermike

Leftist Nazi pr!#k.

6 posted on 08/06/2020 9:47:32 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ifinnegan
What authority?

The authority he has always possessed.

The Authority of Several Thousand Police Officer's Gun Barrels

Or Else.

7 posted on 08/06/2020 9:48:33 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Bigtigermike

Bulldozers next.


8 posted on 08/06/2020 9:48:40 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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It's hard to imagine how we get past this without a Constitutional amendment making all this illegal.
9 posted on 08/06/2020 9:49:20 AM PDT by precisionshootist (ui)
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Go ahead...try it. You will be creating a health, fire and safety hazard.


10 posted on 08/06/2020 9:49:51 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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The mayor has no authority to cutoff utilities to individuals. Furthermore, in order to cutoff power to a single home, you have to visit the home and shut off power at the meter. Ditto with the water. It’s not like cable television where all someone has to do is type a few keystrokes into a computer to turn off service.

Which means that officers have to accompany utility workers to the home that is causing the trouble. So why not just have the officers deal directly with the unruly homeowners?


11 posted on 08/06/2020 9:50:03 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Solar Power, Pool Water, .....party on!


12 posted on 08/06/2020 9:50:20 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: caww

The greatest things to come of COVID it that it revealed all the closeted tyrants currently in elected office. We now know they can not be trusted to support liberty and freedom.


13 posted on 08/06/2020 9:50:48 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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They will need more social workers, soon to be Gulag Recruiters.


14 posted on 08/06/2020 9:51:31 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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“So why not just have the officers deal directly with the unruly homeowners?”

Because it’s none of their Fing business.
Are you okay with police showing up at people’s houses because they aren’t wearing masks?


15 posted on 08/06/2020 9:52:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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As a matter of law, the Mayor of Los Angeles has no power to shut down anything, something he has admitted in the past.


16 posted on 08/06/2020 9:52:35 AM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Bigtigermike
Omnipotence is nice.

(And throughout all of this the elected officials in the federal government, sworn by their individual oaths to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" (I still presume -- though my confidence is waning -- this statement includes the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights) remain mute, passive and, clearly, disinterested in how American citizens are being abused and harmed by politicians and unelected bureaucrats.

Even worse, many Americans -- Right and Left; women and former "men" -- comfortably go along with each new command issued by their "new daddies".

17 posted on 08/06/2020 9:52:41 AM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "The Left destroys everything it touches ... the Left creates nothing; it only destroys.")
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I fear that I’m destined for a Liberal Woke Re-education Camp myself.


18 posted on 08/06/2020 9:52:56 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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March on his house - toss him out.


19 posted on 08/06/2020 9:53:34 AM PDT by Skywise
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The greatest things to come of COVID it that it revealed all the closeted tyrants currently in elected office. We now know they can not be trusted to support liberty and freedom.

^*THIS*^

20 posted on 08/06/2020 9:54:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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