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.
That's a little comical. I don't recall sales tax being raised throughout the state following any earthquake in southern California, though do remember it twice for cities in the north.
Riordan is a southern California businessman who's not too apt to take worthless socialistic promises for goods and services, in this case, electrical power.
He did let the DNC shake us down here in LA during that...party's convention, for $2 million that he didn't want to spring for with his own dough. But at that, he was only serving as mayor for one dollar per year. So it's hard to see how we might've come out behind.
Somehow, at the end of the day, I think we could a lot worse here in CA than electing Riordon governor.