An Arizona utility commissioner said he’s willing to pull the plug on Los Angeles if the city goes through with a boycott of his state.
In a letter to the city of LA, a member of Arizona’s power commission said he would ask Arizona utility companies to cut off the power supply to Los Angeles. LA gets about 25 percent of its power from Arizona.
“That is one commissioner who has that idea — whether he can do that or not is another idea,” said LA Councilman Dennis Zine. “They are the ones who have to make the move, not us.”
The commissioner’s power grid play is in response to the city’s approval of a resolution directing city staff to consider which contracts with Arizona can be terminated. Here’s part Arizona Corporation Commission member Gary Pierce’s letter to the mayor:
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.
I am confident that Arizona’s utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands. 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.
What’s it going to take to get the Feds to enforce the law? Only when the violence from the Mexican drug cartels start to affect them personally, or politically. That’s my guess. Mr. President…do your job.
I support Arizona fully, California can sit in the dark while they plummet into the ocean.
I’ll be spending my vacation dollars in Arizona on my road trip this summer.
pedro said,
#20 said: “If you want to opine that this has nothing to do with racism, and is only about drugs, then why are the Mexicans (ie–including those in Mexico) upset and (ahem) saber rattling?”
I don’t know. Could it be because your average Latin American is a lazy ass that is happy yelling that all their misfortunes are due to someone else doing them wrong.
So your explanation that this isn’t racist is to say something racist? That’s good thinkering there…
Arizona’s new law is racist as are many other immigration laws. People don’t decide where they are born so any restrictions on where people can travel, work and live are unfair at their basis. I hope all you Arizona supporters will look at the many small towns that are ruined from a single factory or farm raid on illegal immigrants. When a small town loses a significant percentage of their population in theses raids there is often a huge impact on the economy of the area. Much of our economy relies on people who are actually here illegally but wouldn’t be illegal if we had reasonable immigration laws. Since you need A SS card to have a job and your employer fills out tax papers you still end up paying taxes if you are “illegal”. The idea that a person no different from you or me can be considered “illegal” just based on where they choose to live and work is appalling! EVERYBODY BREAKS THE LAW EVERY DAY! All laws are not just and all laws should not and cannot be followed. If all you had to do to be legal was register at the border then the only illegal immigrants we would have would be the terrorist or other criminal who don’t want to register at all. Much easier to catch people if we are just looking for a few people trying to sneak in instead of a few amongst hundreds of thousands.
To sum up: We all break laws on a daily basis. I didn’t choose where I was born and I don’t think other people do either. Borders are horribly artificial and are not conducive to human nature. Make it quicker to get in legally and we improve our security.
# 20 jccalhoun said,”I’d rather sit in the dark than have anything to do with Arizona”
As a son of the desert, I’d like to assure you that Az will not miss you.
# 26 GregAllen said, “I didn’t vote for them to run Arizona!”
FTW, Greg. Here, here.
#34–Maxx==a certain populist appeal you got going there, faulted only by a total disconnect from reality.
I can see a few people “wishing” it were the way you say, but no one thinking it actually IS that way.
I am not a fan of a border fence. It is doomed to failure. We need to separate the threat from the criminals who cross and the people who would like to come here legally. The only option for this complicated issue remains simple. Drug decriminalization and/or legalization both here and in Mexico. Take it out of the hands of the criminals and turn it over to the real professional criminals…the government. It’s the only sane way to address this. The kidnappings, home invasions, and many other crimes will be greatly reduced, in both nations. Until then, there is no end in sight. Prohibition has always and will always fail The government has no right to regulate what people want to do to themselves.
Unfortunately, we don’t have leadership with balls that can think outside the box.
Cursor, so only laws that have been passed by other states should be passed?
#37–McCullough==while nothing works perfectly, I think it is safe to say that fences work much better than no fences. In fact, the only way they don’t work is when they work just like no fences.
A tautology, but in a good way.
A fence could be a very important part of a good anti-illegal immigration program. Only needs to be coupled to sanctions against employers==VERY EASY TO DO, and we aren’t doing it of course.
Legalization of drugs would cure the organized crime aspects of the problem and would work with or without a fence. Doesn’t look like that is coming until after Obama either.
If I think Obama is way too conservative, does that make me a progressive, or just a loon?
Does Obama know his Secret Service is asking for citizenship status of all the graduating seniors at a high school he will be visiting?
“Legalization of drugs would cure the organized crime aspects of the problem and would work with or without a fence. Doesn’t look like that is coming until after Obama either.”
Agreed, it’s is the criminal aspect of this problem that has, I believe brought this to a head. If the amount of violence Mexico is dealing with at this moment continues to spill over into these area Texas, NM, AZ, Colorado. People will get tired of waiting for the Feds to act and there are enough weapons in these areas to fuel a war. Maybe that’s what the Feds want? A case could be made for this.
No one talks about why the feds only pay lip service to stopping illegal aliens from Latin America. It is because of the agriculture lobby, the meat producers lobby, and the food industry in general. They want dirt cheap labor. They don’t want to pay minimum wages. They don’t want to pay for safe working conditions.
The other part of the problem is that Mexico has changed. Until recently, most illegals were slipping over to work ag jobs. So no one really cared. Now criminals have figured out how to exploit the underground ag worker system, so they have moved into highly profitable criminal enterprises such as narcotics, extortion, and kidnapping.
AZ, being on the front line, has recognized this change, and decided that the old “turn a blind eye” attitude no longer works. So they do what they have to.
California is not far behind. They just don’t know it yet. Take a hard look at what is going on in San Diego and Imperial Counties (the 2 Calif. counties that border Mexico). They are becoming more and more like AZ, with M13 moving in and exploiting the Mexicans there. It is just a matter of time before these same gangs start doing this crap in LA County big time. Get ready for LA to become the 2nd kidnapping capital of the world.
On the other end or the border, Texas is also looking at the same problem. I think it won’t be long before Texas does the exact same thing AZ is doing. Good look boycotting Texas.
The solution is an ag worker visa program, coupled with enforcement of existing immigration laws and labor laws. Before his 2008 presidential run, McCain pushed for such a sensible solution. He was shot down. And now he has no chance of getting such a program passed.
I listed to Obama telling the illegals that they have to get in the back of the line for apply for residency. Yea… good luck with that. Unless you make the line move (It doesn’t), they aren’t going to bother. Make a new line for guest ag workers.
Australia has a guest ag worker visa program. You can spend 6 months picking fruit for money. Many European teenagers do that as part of their gap year traveling experience. We can do it too if we wanted to.
#34 TheMAXX
”The idea that a person no different from you or me can be considered “illegal” just based on where they choose to live and work is appalling!”
Still looking for the Age of Aquarius huh?
Spark up and dream on.
C…this is why i dont support no agenda
!! And to think…Adam Curry is an immigrant…:)
for the morons spouting the liberal talking points about Mexicans being stopped for no reason in Arizona because of the law you are totally wrong.
Federal law is much stricter than Arizona’s which bars police from doing that. Federal law, as unanimously decided by the Supreme Court, allows police to stop anybody for any reason and ask for immigration status
Muller vs Menya
unanimous that no reasonable suspicion is needed to stop and ask for immigration status
jman said,
for the morons spouting the liberal talking points about Mexicans being stopped for no reason in Arizona because of the law you are totally wrong.
Federal law is much stricter than Arizona’s which bars police from doing that.
Yes because police officers never invent reasons to harass people.