Posted on 05/19/2010 5:01:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
L.A. Mayor Dismisses Warning That Arizona Could Cut Off Power Over Boycott
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday defiantly rejected a warning by a top Arizona utilities official that the state could cut off power to Los Angeles should the city proceed with its boycott of all things Arizona.
Spokesman David Beltran told Fox News that the message didn't even warrant a response.
"We're not going to respond to threats from a state which has isolated itself from the America that values freedom, liberty and basic human rights," Beltran said.
That was after Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote a letter to Villaraigosa slamming his City Council's decision to boycott the Grand Canyon State -- in protest of its immigration law -- by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses.
Noting that a quarter of Los Angeles' electricity comes from Arizona power plants, Pierce threatened to pull the plug if the City Council does not reconsider.
"Doggone it -- if you're going to boycott this candy store ... then don't come in for any of it," Pierce told FoxNews.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Why can’t they turn off the power?
“We’re not going to respond to threats from a state which has isolated itself from the America that values freedom, liberty and basic human rights,” Beltran said.
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Poll: Arizona immigration law widely liked
May 12th, 2010, 7:57 am · 194
There’s broad public support for Arizona’s new tough immigration law with 59 percent of Americans supporting the law and 73 percent telling pollsters for the Pew Research Center for People and the Press that they approve of requiring people to show police documents verifying their legal status.
And the same poll shows wide public dissatisfaction with the way President Barack Obama is handling immigration policy.
http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2010/05/12/poll-arizona-immigration-law-widely-liked/34889/
Whistling in the dark bump....
CUT
THEM
OFF!
Exactly. The LA Mayor is in Washington DC at the dinner anyway.
They can use it all in June July and August
Just like the bolsheviks on the Seattle city council, these bloviating pandering tools are so full of it.
Yahh, its a boycott, right up until the same is done to them.
Then it becomes, “Now your being mean and it was just a boycott “in our minds”.”
Flip that switch, baby!
I think they can’t because of a contract to supply power. However, I’m not sure there is price ranges in the contract. Just what I derived from hearing the interview on Cavuto.
Of course Arizona CAN’T win this. However, they should still cut the power and see LA in court. It will take 4 years to litigate the matter perhaps more, and during that time LA can get a clue or buy a vowel.
Commissioner Pierce is only giving Los Angeles what they want.
LOL - in for a penny - in for a pound.
“Spokesman David Beltran told Fox News that the message didn’t even warrant a response.”
Flip the switch off. Then when the lights go out in LA and all the crying starts, the Arizona officials can say, “The message didn’t even warrant a response.”
I think Beltran has the shoe on the wrong foot. It's CA that's isolating itself from America. Arizona, flip that switch!
Pull the plug on LA for a few hours each day...Give them rolling brownouts just like they have in Meh-hico.
Good to know that “basic human rights” now include the right to violate the immigration laws of the USA, but only the USA. Mexico can continue to exploit, rob, rape and murder all illegal immigrants to its own territory. No human rights being violated there.
That is not what Pierce said. Even FOX can't get this story right.
AZ may not be able to win this but..they can try emergency shut downs due to overloads on the system and go into repair mode. After all, when the system overloads it causes system failures.
Villaraigosa no tiene los cojones para hacerlo.
Actually, the better trick is to start a tax for outside-of-Arizona users of their power...call it a “Carbon Tax” just make yourself green...and let LA know that they are special. They need to get used to carbon taxes anyway...and this just helps them get used to this sooner.
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