{"id":1572,"date":"2010-05-20T02:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2010-05-20T02:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:04:36","slug":"gop-support-browns-out-or-suffer-brownouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/gop-support-browns-out-or-suffer-brownouts\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP: Support Browns Out or Suffer Brownouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOP racists in Arizona are at it again.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Arizona-law2\"<\/a> City after city is taking LA’s lead on boycotting Arizona because of their draconian immigration law, so it was time for the xenophobes to respond.<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n

Here’s part Arizona Corporation Commission member Gary Pierce’s [Racist delinked] letter to the mayor: <\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. I am confident that Arizona\u2019s 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\u2019s economy. <\/p>\n

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Washington D.C., meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, but his deputy chief of staff issued the following statement: "The mayor stands strongly behind the city council and he will not respond to threats from the state that has isolated itself from an America that values freedom, liberty and basic civil rights<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

It is doubtful that Pierce can follow through on this Republican blackmail, because California has an ownership stake in those utilities, showing that the GOP is as ignorant in theri threats as they are in their racism.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOP racists in Arizona are at it again. City after city is taking LA’s lead on boycotting Arizona because of their draconian immigration law, so it was time for the xenophobes to respond. An Arizona utility commissioner said he’s willing to pull the plug on Los Angeles if the city goes through with a boycott […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}