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Lights Out In L.A.?????? Here We Go Folks !!! What about the Electricity California gets from Arizona ??????????
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Immigration: An Arizona official asks a good question: If California wants to boycott Arizona over the way it enforces federal law, what about the electricity California gets from there?
The problem with righteous indignation is that when others call you on it and tell you to put your money where your mouth is, it can cause an embarrassing leak in your hot air balloon.
Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, has done just that, calling the bluff of the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Pierce wrote Villaraigosa a letter saying in essence that if L.A. didn't need Arizona's business, maybe it didn't need Arizona's power either. Pierce noted Villaraigosa had pledged L.A. would "send a message" by cutting the "resources and ties" they share.
He wanted to know if the mayor also wants to give back the 24% of the electricity it gets from Arizona power plants.
"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," Pierce wrote, suggesting the mayor and the council were all hat and no cattle.
Actions have consequences, and so do words.
When you are prepared to enact sanctions on a neighboring state that is not your enemy, sanctions you will not impose on foreign countries who are, you'd better be prepared to go the distance.
At least you should apply your standards consistently and across the board. "I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Pierce added.
As we've noted, this is an economic boycott that Los Angeles is unlikely to employ to a human rights violator like China, and all Arizona is doing is copying policies that exist both in existing federal law and in the L.A. penal code.
Nor is L.A. likely to boycott Mexico, where a drug war rages that threatens to spill over the border and which has cost the live of tens of thousands of Mexicans and dozens of Americans.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed the U.S. Congress on Thursday and continued to lecture America on its immigration policy, forgetting the mote in his own eye.
Until recently, Mexican law made illegal immigration a criminal offense. Anyone arrested for it could be imprisoned for up to two years and then deported. In 2008, it was made a civil violation as in American law, and the statute reads a lot like Arizona's.
[link to www.investors.com]
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