{"id":5371,"date":"2010-05-19T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2010-05-19T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:26:51","slug":"arizona-utilities-willing-to-shut-off-power-to-l-a-to-honor-city%e2%80%99s-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5371\/arizona-utilities-willing-to-shut-off-power-to-l-a-to-honor-city%e2%80%99s-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Utilities Willing to Shut Off Power to L.A. to Honor City\u2019s Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local-beat\/Power-Play-Over-Immigration-Law-94251079.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Mess with Arizona<\/a>!\u00a0 One of the state\u2019s utilities commissioners sent an open letter to the Mayor of Los Angeles in response to the City Council\u2019s resolution to boycott Arizona businesses in order to, as the mayor said, \u201csend a message\u201d that L.A. officials disapprove of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/alispdfs\/council\/SB1070-HB2162.PDF \" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\u2019s tough new illegal immigration law<\/a>. (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/letter-azcc-villaraigosa.pdf.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">Gary Pierce\u2019s letter<\/a> is short and powerful. (pdf)\u00a0 My favorite excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI received your message; please receive mine.\u00a0 As a state-wide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona\u2019s electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the \u2018resources and ties\u2019 we share with the City of Los Angeles.\u00a0 In fact, approximately twenty-five percent of the electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power plants in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 I am confident that Arizona\u2019s utilities would be happy to take these electrons off your hands.\u00a0 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\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like the well-heeled college students protesting capitalism on spring break, it\u2019s time for Los Angeles officials to put their principles where their sanctimonious mouths are.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see who backs down first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Texas, Don\u2019t Mess with Arizona!\u00a0 One of the state\u2019s utilities commissioners sent an open letter to the Mayor of Los Angeles in response to the City Council\u2019s resolution to boycott Arizona businesses in order to, as the mayor said, \u201csend a message\u201d that L.A. officials disapprove of Arizona\u2019s tough new illegal immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,1292,514,1248,1200,1293],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-boycott","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-law","tag-los-angeles","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}