LA Responds To Arizona Threat

In case you missed it yesterday, an Arizona utility regulator named Gary Pierce got all shirty with the city of Los Angeles, which has instituted a boycott of the state because of their new "Let's Round Up The Latinos" law. "I would be happy to help them to renegotiate the power agreements so they no longer receive power from Arizona," Pierce told ABC News.

Damn! Interstate smackdown, right? You're not going to sit there and take that, are you Los Angeles?

Per Wonkette, the answer is no:

General Manager's Statement Regarding LADWP Power Generation Assets in Arizona

"I want to make clear that we support the City position regarding the recent law enacted in Arizona and the resolution adopted by the Los Angeles City Council.

On any given day, we receive 20 - 25% of our power from two power plants located in Arizona: Navajo, a coal-fired plant, and Palo Verde, a nuclear plant.

We are part owner of both power plants, which are generating assets of the Department. As such, nothing in the City's resolution is inconsistent with our continuing to receive power from those LADWP-owned assets.

I might add that, as the City's Job Czar, I certainly would welcome any conventions or meetings that were going to be held in Arizona to come to Los Angeles. We have fantastic facilities and incomparable weather and we'd welcome them to the City of Angels."

- Austin Beutner, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

All in all, a pretty good burn. Let's rub it in a little bit with a video of Ozomatli performing "City of Angels."

RELATED:
LADWP To Arizona: 'Suck It, We Actually Own Your Power Plants' [Wonkette]

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Comments

[dcrinaz]

05:45 AM on 05/25/2010

For an easy-to-read chart to see how our current immigration laws don't work AND how it actually has helped to create our current system of illegal immigration, click here: http://reason.org/files/a87d1550853898a9b306ef458f116079.pdf

[Esther in Phoenix]

01:55 PM on 05/24/2010

Tit-4-Tat. Mr. Pierce, please leave bad enough alone. Before you come out and try to force Cali in a corner, do your homework instead of just looking like a dumb dookie who does not know who owns what. We have enough stupid people making comments that should be kept quiet.

[bgood0822]

10:57 AM on 05/21/2010

Arnie needs to get a handle on his lost children in L.A.

[StellaFox]

10:53 AM on 05/21/2010

Typical. California's do not have the strength of their convictions.
If you truly wanted a boycott, you wouldn't use the power, the water, and frankly you'd pull the Lakers back to LA, and forfeit the rest of the playoffs.

[dcrinaz]

05:46 AM on 05/25/2010

Oh don't be stupid. A boycott is meant to hurt the target of a boycott, not oneself. Get real. Go boycott yourself.

[ipolitics123]

11:09 PM on 05/20/2010

Then there's the whole water thing. Last I looked, the Colorado river passes through Arizona before it gets to California. If Arizona were to say, for example turn off the tap, Californians would be drinking their own urine in a week. (Buwahahahahaa!!)

[ThirdSection]

01:06 AM on 05/21/2010

Of course, if Colorado and New Mexico were to fully exercise their A-1 rights on the river and its tributaries, Phoenix would evaporate!!!!

Muhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhahahahaha!!!

[Zonie]

01:46 AM on 05/21/2010

Not likely....lotta water comes from spring run off....Mogollon rim, White Mountains, San Franciscos....funnels right into CAP....

[theerrantsoul]

11:25 AM on 05/21/2010

First off, Los Angeles is boycotting Arizona, not the entire California state. Supporters of this law tend to be short-sighted, but that's still kind of a big difference.

Secondly, I don't seriously think anyone would cut off water. Economic sanctions are one thing, as is the power cut-off, but removal of water rights is inhumane. This is a disagreement, not a war. Besides, approximately half of the fruit and a quarter of the vegetables consumed in the U.S. are grown in California - thought about what a loss of water to those crops would do to food generation for the entire country (including Arizona)?

[lisalulu]

12:07 PM on 05/21/2010

Thank you very much! Fav.

[RightWingMarine]

04:46 PM on 05/20/2010

Unless LA owns 50% +1 share of these power plants then they can't decide on their own how AZ will run those plants. They can try to get a majority of the owners to agree and perhaps they could. It all comes down to who owns the plant and their views on LA.

[bdaved]

02:49 AM on 05/21/2010

Wow!

[rjvg50]

03:28 PM on 05/21/2010

As long as you are making this stuff up you better make the contracts that all the parties signed go away too. Here is some imaginary White Out you can use (I put it in the spaces between the letters).

[dcrinaz]

05:49 AM on 05/25/2010

The immigration law is a way to white out Hispanics in Arizona. That's the goal, that's what it's all about.

[GlenRast]

04:22 PM on 05/20/2010

If they're talking about hydroelectric then I'd have to say that I seriously doubt the built or own the facilities in their state. Besides there are federal laws concerning interstate commerce. Or Arizona may want consider where a lot of their food is grown.

[Mike of LA]

05:02 PM on 05/20/2010

The article tells us they are coal fired and nuclear.

I like your thoughts about the food though.

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

03:45 PM on 05/20/2010

LA should cancel it's contracts with AZ and find another power provider.

Let these bigots starve.

[Zonie]

06:19 PM on 05/20/2010

And I hope every one of the people here in my state and country illegally move into your city.

And I hope they leave the same mess....
Then we shall see who you are calling bigot then.....

http://www.bettorschat.com/forums/rants-politics-religion/184113-az-sonoran-desert-outside-tucson-az.html

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/following-the-amnesty-trail/Content?oid=1086828

We have a year round growing season and dozens of farms....btw....

;p
Oh....btw...our borders here.....The people you call bigots....... are your only barrier....

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

08:33 PM on 05/20/2010

May YOU starve first.

[Jon Dorian]

06:38 AM on 05/21/2010

And these people can move to California as well.

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html

[ThirdSection]

01:08 AM on 05/21/2010

This may be a good time for you folks to expand that little solar operation you've got going down by Barstow...

[InStl]

03:30 PM on 05/20/2010

City Job Czar????? In LA? Wow, the Federal government structure has trickled down to LA.

[sjpersonal]

02:57 PM on 05/20/2010

Of course the Mayor of Los Angeles, is talking smack about Arizona's law. Just look what has been permitted to happen to Los Angeles, it is Little Mexico and not because of those Latinos who came here legally. The Latino gang members who terrorize this city all live with their parents who are illegal. Everytime a construction job is going on it is completely manned by illegals and do not get me started on the hospitals and other benefits that these individuals take advantage of.

I believe that the AZ law needs to be tweeked to try to ensure as much as possible that those who are in this country legally are not caught up in this and they need to leave the education system alone but other than that I am good with the law.

We would not be discussing this if the Fed Government had ever even tried to stem the tide of invading illegals. The only thing that our politicians care about are cheap labor and votes (Anchor Children)! No state should have to go to the measures that Arizona has to protect it's citizens, this should be the job of the Federal Government.

[theerrantsoul]

11:41 AM on 05/21/2010

I live in Los Angeles. I have no problem with the Latino community, legal or illegal. We understand here that illegal immigrants contribute to the economy despite their regrettable status, and crime among their communities is no more prevalent than among any other. I'm even friends with some of them, heaven forbid.

The current administration has increased the rate of deportations by triple what it was during the Bush administration - read the HuffPost article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/little-girl-who-challenge_n_583432.html

Senator Schumer informed Governer Brewer about a week ago that the administration was already talking about immigration reform, and planned to take it up seriously this year. She still refused to delay implementation of this law, though. How does that fit in with the idea that it has to be done to "protect its citizens"?

And from WHAT, exactly? Day laborers? Illegal immigrants aren't the only criminals, and all the stats I've seen indicate that crime is down in Arizona.

[dcrinaz]

02:34 PM on 05/20/2010

Check out this headline on the Phoenix Fox News affiliate's website: Immigration Law Loophole May Keep More Illegals Here! (http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/immigration-law-loophole-5-19-2010)

This is precious! It shows you not only how racist and stupid (the two go together) the supporters of the new Arizona anti-immigrant law are, but also how sloppy they are with the law! Not only did they do a sloppy job in the first place, requiring an amendment to the newly passed law within just a few days of passage, they seemed to have missed something very important:

The new law may actually help undocumented aliens arrested under the law stay here longer and legally work! Man, talk about a bunch of Krazy Keystone Kops! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! This is a riot. And a Fox News afffiliate reported it! I am laughing so hard! What a bunch of anti-immigrant losers! They are their own worst enemies! It shows you that racists are the burned out light bulbs in the string of Christmas lights!

[Josh Seipp]

02:52 PM on 05/20/2010

Hahahaha, holy sh*t!

[nexus1961]

03:04 PM on 05/20/2010

Keep dreaming......
it'll make the EVENTUAL deportations that much sweeter when you think they'll never happen

[Zonie]

06:31 PM on 05/20/2010

Already knew this....I posted that long ago.

Just goes to prove you folks didn't read the bill....did you?

[dcrinaz]

03:10 AM on 05/21/2010

Zonie, people have read the bill. Your harping on this is getting old. Do you have another argument that actually means something? And by the way, I read the law and also understand the spirit of the law and understand the religious bigotry motivating the legislative sponsors of the bill, as well as raw-faced bigotry. It is racist and if you don't want to see it, you're blind.