Posted on 05/20/2010 5:09:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
Immigration: An Arizona official asks a good question: If California wants to boycott Arizona over the way it enforces federal law, what about the electricity California gets from there?
The problem with righteous indignation is that when others call you on it and tell you to put your money where your mouth is, it can cause an embarrassing leak in your hot air balloon.
Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, has done just that, calling the bluff of the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Pierce wrote Villaraigosa a letter saying in essence that if L.A. didn't need Arizona's business, maybe it didn't need Arizona's power either. Pierce noted Villaraigosa had pledged L.A. would "send a message" by cutting the "resources and ties" they share.
He wanted to know if the mayor also wants to give back the 24% of the electricity it gets from Arizona power plants.
"If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation," Pierce wrote, suggesting the mayor and the council were all hat and no cattle.
Actions have consequences, and so do words.
When you are prepared to enact sanctions on a neighboring state that is not your enemy, sanctions you will not impose on foreign countries who are, you'd better be prepared to go the distance.
At least you should apply your standards consistently and across the board. "I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Pierce added.
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Without California “River People”, Havasu City wouldn’t exist....so let’s not go kneejerk, here.
That's because he lost all the blood to his head (it was just below his navel) given the panel....succulence unbounced. Megyn Kelly, Martha McCallum, and the kinda cute watzername.
He had that mental loofah on superscrub.
It has been on at least three of those shows long before you posted.
You would be surprised at the numbers of natives. Ford had their test track there and a lot of them lived in the Havasu area. We loved it there. One weekend the CA people came in and we left. When we returned, the pool area was trashed and personal items all over the place. Had to keep the kids out until it was cleaned. Uck.
How could you tell?
Let them carry buckets home from the La Brea Tar Pits.
Raybbr: How could you tell?
MortMan: Well, he was on TV, his mouth was moving, and there was no bowl of pasta in front of him to explain the jowl gyrations, so...
Actually, I meant, "How could you tell he was an idiot - compared to all the other times he's an idiot?"
Which is just about every time I happen to hear him talk.
Understood, and agreed.
The DWP owns portions of these Power Plant, we cannot just shut them off, But, Look for the ads calling for the City of Los Angeles to divest all interests in AZ, force them to sell off their interests. Maybe the Governor of our great State of AZ should make a tender offer to BUY their Interest in these Power Plants, Make it LOUD and PUBLIC. If she did this 90% of us here in AZ would agree to a 1 time parcel tax to pay for it. Make the Offer Governor Brewer. They are on the run, put the stick in their eye, NOW.
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