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Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott
FoxNews.com ^ | 5/19/2010

Posted on 05/19/2010 9:31:04 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight.

That's the message from a member of Arizona's top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution.

Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote the letter in response to the Los Angeles City Council's decision last week to boycott the Grand Canyon State -- in protest of its immigration law -- by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; boycott; immigration; losangeles; powerstruggle; standwitharizona
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To: GoCards
Sad how its gotten to all of this. Amongst own states.

We've been here before. There were even fewer states last time.

121 posted on 05/19/2010 10:52:27 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
They would sit in the dark.....

Nope, they would probably be out doing the looting that Americans don't want to do.

122 posted on 05/19/2010 10:54:24 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight.


123 posted on 05/19/2010 10:55:27 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

bttt


124 posted on 05/19/2010 10:56:12 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: BossLady
...brown outs.

LOL, it just dawned on me that somewhere, someone is going to claim that is a "racist" term...Just wait.

125 posted on 05/19/2010 11:00:25 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Turbo Pig

Just now on FOX, the Mayor struck back ... nobody can argue that we are not in a civil war.


126 posted on 05/19/2010 11:02:54 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
His letter is not a threat to cut power. His letter is calling LA out to put up or shut up.

This boycott is like a Jesse Jackson hunger strike, where he doesn't eat during the day and pigs out as soon as the sun goes down.

LA is trying to hurt a few Arizona businesses, but still bellies up to the electrical power trough for all their neon lights and air conditioning.

127 posted on 05/19/2010 11:07:13 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Psalm 144
The einsatzgruppen we saw deployed at Ruby Ridge and Waco would immediately descend on Arizona, however.

I'm starting to think that might actually be the point. Arizona has been slowly moving toward secession for several years now. But recently they've been passing several laws that go against the policies of the lefties/federales. I think they want the feds to start Civil War II, so they're goading them into taking action.
128 posted on 05/19/2010 11:07:24 AM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: Hildy
Gary Pierce was just on FOX, by phone, and he's not backing down!!!!!!

GO PIERCE!

129 posted on 05/19/2010 11:13:01 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Haven’t read entire thread but wanted to post this (sorry if someone else already pointed it out).

Pres. of Mexico Calderon is on the WH lawn today bitching about the Arizona law. The Obamas are kissing up to him and allowing him to trash a U.S. state on the White House lawn in front of reporters and the world. At the same time, I see a headline that the flood of illegals crossing into the Arizona is increasing. Why would it be increasing when we are hearing that illegals are leaving Arizona because the free ride is over? It should be decreasing. New Mexico, Texas and California offer easier alternatives.

Is something going on here that Arizona should be worried about? Something more than just rhetoric?


130 posted on 05/19/2010 11:16:42 AM PDT by Natural Born 54
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To: Natural Born 54

Did Obozito bow to Cabron... er, I mean, Calderon??


131 posted on 05/19/2010 11:18:44 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: OldMissileer
When the real citizens in Arizona say or do anything he will use this as an excuse to impose Marshal Law there and try to suspend the November elections.

As I recall, Arizona has a law on their books that if the feds ever declare martial law, the state of Arizona automatically secedes.
132 posted on 05/19/2010 11:20:55 AM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Jan Brewer should call the Arizona legislature back into a special session to deal with these boycotts. The legislature needs to retaliate against these actions. The legislature should consider legal challenges to the boycotts, reverse boycotts, illegal alien transportation to the boycott cities, and taxes/fees for services that these cities must purchase such as electricity. Perhaps there is an interstate commerce issue that can be raised. A state court case could require representatives of these cities to defend their practices in Arizona court.


133 posted on 05/19/2010 11:21:00 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: richardtavor

I’d add the caveat that they need to pay the premium up front at the beginning of the month and shut down the power if payment is late.


134 posted on 05/19/2010 11:21:20 AM PDT by Natural Born 54
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
(Sarc)
To: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

This is to inform you of the event leading up to the power outage the city of Los Angeles experienced yesterday afternoon.
It seems there was a security breach at a power station. There was an environmentally protected field mouse that slipped under the security fence 5 miles north of the power station.
Not wishing to have an endangered specie incident occur it was determined the most prudent action would be to take the power station offline. This was done until the safety of the field mouse was ascertained. I am sure you understand our actions as your state is known to be very familiar with environmental laws.
Once the field mouse was located and determined to be OK it was returned to its natural environment outside of the security fence. The power station was then placed back online.
Please be aware that this could occur again and at unpredictable times should the endangered specie wander on to the power station property.
This condition did not occur in the past as we had security people regularly patrolling the perimeter. We no longer have this luxury as the security people are no longer here; they now must patrol the southern border of the state.

Arizona Corporation Commission

135 posted on 05/19/2010 11:21:33 AM PDT by 3090VMXA
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To: K-oneTexas

Good for Gary!!!


136 posted on 05/19/2010 11:21:38 AM PDT by pointsal
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To: Natural Born 54
You just cracked the nut! In sports it's known as flooding the zone.

Did any reporter have the pair to ask the punk from Mexico about Mexico's own draconian immigration laws? Didn't think so.

137 posted on 05/19/2010 11:22:09 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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To: USNBandit

Could you post the letter here?


138 posted on 05/19/2010 11:25:34 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Opportunity is missed...because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work--Thomas Edison)
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To: SZonian

Whoa. Pierce specifically suggests cutting off power to L.A. only (far south of Fresno and FR), and that would be only 25% of power to the city. See this article: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Power-Play-Over-Immigration-Law-94251079.html


139 posted on 05/19/2010 11:25:36 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

No, this time he curtsied :~).


140 posted on 05/19/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT by Natural Born 54
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