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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

L.A. Mayor Dismisses Warning That Arizona Could Cut Off Power Over Boycott


"Doggone it -- if you're going to boycott this candy store ... then don't come in for any of it,"

We've never visited the Grand Canyon State, but it's fast becoming the patriotic thing to do. And as we said yesterday, kudos to Governor Jan Brewer and the people of Arizona for standing up to the leftist bullies!
Traffic flows along the Pasadena Freeway May 14 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

From Fox News
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday defiantly rejected a warning by a top Arizona utilities official that the state could cut off power to Los Angeles should the city proceed with its boycott of all things Arizona.

Spokesman David Beltran told Fox News that the message didn't even warrant a response.

"We're not going to respond to threats from a state which has isolated itself from the America that values freedom, liberty and basic human rights," Beltran said.

That was after Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote a letter to Villaraigosa slamming his City Council's decision to boycott the Grand Canyon State -- in protest of its immigration law -- by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts

with state businesses.

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