[Tacis]

LA built its own system to insulate itself from the gougers and communists that surround it. Davis is one of those ultra-leftists who believe that, if you have something he "needs," then he has the right to take it because, well, you acquired it "improperly." If the thieves (no offense to Condit's kids, Davis consultant friends etc.) Sacremento don't want to buy power from LA under the terms they set, Davis can go somewhere else. I am delighted that Riordan had the brass to tell the democrap-socialists to go pound salt. Why else would LA have set up its own power system but lack of faith in the state's ability to guarantee continued supplies?

[ElkGroveDan]

LA built its own system to insulate itself from the gougers and communists that surround it.

Nice try, but LA is surrounded by the decent people who escaped it's bonds of excess government. When it comes to communists they are IN L.A. You have to go 350 miles to San Francisco before you find a worse bunch of socialists.

The simple fact is that the people of Northern and Central California were facing rolling blackouts thanks to that idiot Gray Davis and his DemoRAT colleagues who knew about the problem and chose to do nothing nearly a year before.

Riordan was acting like a third-world dictator looking to extort payment from his neighbors. Believe me LA's is never going to suffer for a lack of anything -- especially money -- while it's vast contingent of legislative leftists controls the purse strings in Sacramento.

I suppose Riordan had the right to flip the bird to families across California in their cold and darkened homes, but when he did that he sort of gave up the right to ask to be governor of ALL of California.