Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott

FoxNews.com ^ | 5/19/2010

[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.

[Noumenon]

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Starve the monkeys. Galt's Gulch is a state of mind and a plan of action.

[az_gila]

Let the citizens of LA break out their coleman stoves to cook their meals.

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Nah... they'll all eat sushi and fire up the BBQ...:^)

Just like after the Northridge earthquake...

[patton]

Doesn’t matter - it would cause a cascading failure that would black out the entire west coast.

[ScottinVA]

A threat is bullshit, just do it!

They probably have to hire a team of contractors to enact the shutdown, which will cost $$$; I doubt it's simply the flip of a switch. I suspect AZ would rather LA just STFU and let them go about their business.

[EricT.]

I think 3-6pm would be even better. Let them all sit in traffic until midnight a few times.

[Above My Pay Grade]

>>>The Los Angles Lakers should also boycott Phoenix. They should refuse to play games 3 and 4 there.

(But knowing los Suns.... they would happily agree to play all 7 games in Loser Angeles.)<<<

The irony here is that “Los Suns” have demonstrated that they are pro-illegal alien and anti-U.S. sovereignty, while Los Angeles Lakers coach, Phil Jackson came out against NBA teams getting involved in pro-illegal protests, and seemed to support or the law, or at least acknowledge that the majority of Americans do.

[ScottinVA]

I think 3-6pm would be even better. Let them all sit in traffic until midnight a few times.

LOL! Beautiful; IIRC, the public transit system out there sucks big time.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Well done, Mr. Pierce! Absolutely brilliant! Cut ‘em off!

[vigilante2]

What did they think the result of their boycott would be?

Liberals have no common sense, they can't think that far ahead.

[listenhillary]

Are we going to not have FR?

Our Achille’s heel?

[OneWingedShark]

>Call the LA city council and ask them if they are boycotting AZ’s water and power. It’s fun!

What response do you get?

[Mobties]

I wouldn't sell or ship anything to the City of Los Angeles
without having received cash in advance.

I doubt any prudent banker would consider trade accounts receivable from LA as valid assets against which to lend.

[longtermmemmory]

civilization is one meal away for chaos.

cutting the power off would directly fall on the politician’s laps.

(are there not contracts for sale of power?)

[Izzy Dunne]

by threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution.

How is this retribution?

It's not.

AZ said "if you want to boycott our state, then consider the consequences", one of which is that YOU will be boycotting OUR electricity.

That's not retribution, that's CNN, et al, stirring the pot.

[fr_freak]

Wow - that guy looks just like Michael Jackson, except he’s black!

[calex59]

What's pitiful about all this sh** with CA is that in 1959 when I was a Senior in high school, all students who had a certain grade point average(3.7 and up, back in the day 4.0 was very unusual because they actually taught in schools then), were taken on a field trip to the first nuke reactor in CA, I forget what area it was in but it was on the coast and looked very differently than the ones today that use the towers for cooling.

We were so proud that CA was leading the way on energy development and we saw a great future for the country when it came to electricity production.

Did we get surprised and what a sh** hole CA has become compared to what it was back then. A state I could be proud of has become a state I would love to leave if I had the means.

[I see my hands]

All sorts (a real person answers right away). I talk polite cuz they got more guns even than I do. They listen polite and sometimes respond and sometimes just listen. But they never like it, lol. Ad lib.. Call and report the reaction you get.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Wonder how all the illegals in LA would respond to a big power outage there.....

They would sit in the dark.....
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No they wouldn’t. The city would burn.

[USAF70]

Just sent a support email to Gary Pierce. I’m sure he would like to hear from others that support his action.

Pierce-web@azcc.gov

[ForAmerica]

Good call, random power outage for 1 hour a day. They should do it like the cable man, sometime between 8 and 5.