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[Guest GT_Rat]

Deciding to boycott the state that provides 25% of your electricity:

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

FOXNews.com

A member of Arizona's top government utilities agency threw down the gauntlet in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution for the city's boycott of Arizona.

Traffic flows along the Pasadena Freeway May 14 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

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.

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. He also ridiculed Villaraigosa for saying that the point of the boycott was to "send a message" by severing the "resources and ties" they share.

"I received your message; please receive mine. As a statewide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the 'resources and ties' we share with the city of Los Angeles," Pierce wrote.

"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."

Appearing to tap into local frustration in Arizona over the raft of boycotts and threatened boycotts from cities across the country, including Los Angeles, Pierce warned that Arizona companies are willing and ready to fight boycott with boycott.

"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Pierce wrote. "If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy."

Arizona has some serious leverage over Los Angeles, as well as the rest of California. The state and city get electricity from a nuclear power plant outside Phoenix, as well as from coal-fired power plants in northern Arizona and two giant hydroelectric power generators along the Colorado River.

Despite that, the Los Angeles City Council voted overwhelmingly last week to ban future business with Arizona -- a decision that could cost Arizona millions of dollars in lost contracts.

Los Angeles officials were furious with the Arizona immigration law passed last month and joined local officials in cities across the country in pushing boycotts to register their dismay. Critics say the law will lead to racial profiling and civil rights abuses.

Arizona officials have defended the law, saying the state needed to take its illegal immigration problem into its own hands.

The law requires local law enforcement to try to verify the immigration status of anyone they have contact with whom they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. It empowers them to turn over verified illegal immigrants to federal custody. The legislation explicitly prohibits screening people based solely on race or national origin.

[oldogy]

It all goes back to the progressives and "What do they not understand about illegal?"

oldogy

[Guest SUNTZU]

"Stand your ground! Don't fire unless fired upon! But if they want to have a war, let it begin here!"

Good job, AZ.

[Reservoir Dog]

That's great! I hope they do it.

[herr.baer]

I vote Az. pulls the plug for 24 hours!

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Pull the plug and let CA make their own green stuff, since it's so great.

Good job, AZ, keep it up!

[Guest jackdm3]

Does AZ need anything from CA?

[mikegideon]

I love this!

[Mike.357]

what does LA not understand about the word illegal?

Q: Why would anyone here legally want these criminals pouring across our borders?

A: They personally benefit from illegals being here.

[saintsfanbrian]

I find it interesting that his Highness is looking into whether or not the law in Arizona is Constitutional.

Forgive me if I am wrong but I don't recall seeing anything in the Constitution regarding states enforcing laws that are on their books the way they think best. In fact I believe that the federal government is not supposed to deal with the laws of the states in that matter.

Oh well. Fort Sumter here we come!

[Seaslug]

what does LA not understand about the word illegal?

Q: Why would anyone here legally want these criminals pouring across our borders?

A: They personally benefit from illegals being here.

I used to live less than 10 min. from the USMC helicopter base in Tustin. Every time we would drive by, there would be DOZENS of illegals picking strawberries in the fields ON BASE...

[Steelharp]

Does AZ actually own the property and the rights to cut it off, or does CA own the property and have the say-so as to what goes on?

[G27]

Based on what I've read, it looks like the contracts would have to be renegotiated, though I suspect there are provisions in the contracts to allow AZ to back out if they need/want to.

[Guest mustangdave]

Boy LA would be up a creek if AZ can cut off the WATER too

[Ebow1]

Ha. Maybe L.A. can hire all the illegals that have left AZ to run on hampster wheels and provide the electricity.

[railfancwb]

Does AZ need anything from CA?

They can probably find something worthwhile to do with the Colorado River water now going to LA and California...

[Mark@Sea]

Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city!

[gregintenn]

This is the kind of crap you find yourself in when liberals are allowed to make desicions. They make them using "feelings" and not logic, facts, and simple math.

[Guest BEARMAN]

It appears Kalifornia is willing to cut off its nose, to spite its face.

Buncha "tree-hugging loggerheads"...they deserve to be cut off....cut off that is, from the rest of the United States. IMO

Let Ahnold, come to their rescue...the big ex Super-ZERO he is...or, used to be.

[Guest fourspdRAT]

They should wait and do it on some big movie awards night. That would be epic.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

They should wait and do it on some big movie awards night. That would be epic.

"AND NOW... ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR IS??!?!?!?!?!!?!?"

*Power Goes Out*

You're right... EPIC

[Guest SUNTZU]

They should wait and do it on some big movie awards night. That would be epic.

The best I heard on the internet was doing it two minutes after Earth Hour (where all the granola munchers shut off their power for Mother Earth for an hour) and when they turn on their computers then BAM, no power. LOL.

[mcurrier]

Oh well. Fort Sumter here we come!

Yup.