{"id":3516,"date":"2010-05-19T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/cut-la-off\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:42:14","slug":"cut-la-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/cut-la-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut L.A. Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/19\/arizona-official-threatens-cut-los-angeles-power-payback-boycott\/\">Via Fox News<\/a>: Arizona can play the game too . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong style='font-size:1.3em'>Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skyline.jpg' alt='skyline.jpg' class='right' \/>If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the message from a member of Arizona&#8217;s top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city&#8217;s power supply as retribution. <\/p>\n<p>Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote the letter in response to the Los Angeles City Council&#8217;s decision last week to boycott the Grand Canyon State &#8212; in protest of its immigration law &#8212; by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/19\/arizona-official-threatens-cut-los-angeles-power-payback-boycott\/\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Payback is a bitch, Angelinos. I hope that San Fran, Austin, San Diego and Seattle get the message. Arizona will not be intimidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Fox News: Arizona can play the game too . . . Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott If&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-law-and-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}