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Oh Los Angeles...
Mayor Villaragosa says, 'I am also strongly supporting the effort led by Councilmember Janice Hahn to boycott the State of Arizona.'
Arizona (who provides 25% of LA's power): 'In a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce said a boycott war is bad for both sides, and said he would "be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements" to end the electricity flowing to Los Angeles.
"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Mr. Pierce said. "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." '
Spokesperson for Villaragosa: 'The mayor won't respond to threats'
hahhaaha.. who threatened who first??
'We're going to wreck your economy!'
'Okay fine we'll cut off your power.'
'Don't threaten us!!!'
These morons in CA ...
- How about the Morons in AZ?DrBombay
- Sounds like blackmail.IRNlun6
- Which morons in AZ? The illegal ones or the ones who decided to enforce the Federal law?mathinc
- And a boycot isn't blackmail? This is like a double-scoop of blackmail.mathinc
- Yup, I agree mathinc. Would be ideal for all sides to seek some clarification on this issue instead of treats and accusations.IRNlun6
- ... accusations.IRNlun6
- "threats"...IRNlun6
- I just think boycotting a state is pretty stupid, especially since the law in questions is a Fed law that was adopted for AZ.mathinc
- Not to mention the fact that LA is fuggin broke. Who the hell are they to decide to cancel contracts.. shouldn't these peoplemathinc
- people be working their asses off to make sure the people they represent have the basic necessities that a city is supposed to provide?mathinc
- supposed to provide? A month ago they were talking about cutting back services drastically.mathinc
- ... and not to mention that our country just went through one of the largest financial crashes in its history. This would just exasperate state budget shortages.IRNlun6
- ... exasperate state budget issues. Then again these people are rightfully afraid of the uncertainty which generally leads to poor decisions.IRNlun6
- ... leads to poor decisions.IRNlun6
- very true very true.mathinc
- Come Nov. CA will be on it's way to being in the black and more.762mm