How about AZ threatening to cut off power to LA? - Rand
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"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," Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce said in a Tuesday letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Pierce, who has no authority to cut off the city's electricity, said that he did not intend his letter as a literal threat but that he wrote it to illustrate the close ties between Los Angeles and Arizona and the trouble that a boycott could cause in both places.
"A boycott is an unfriendly gesture," he said Wednesday. "Where do you expect that to go?"
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/05/19/20100519arizona-immigration-electricity-regulator-threatens-power-supply-los-angeles.html#ixzz0osfJgZhs
"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," Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce said in a Tuesday letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Pierce, who has no authority to cut off the city's electricity, said that he did not intend his letter as a literal threat but that he wrote it to illustrate the close ties between Los Angeles and Arizona and the trouble that a boycott could cause in both places.
"A boycott is an unfriendly gesture," he said Wednesday. "Where do you expect that to go?"
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/05/19/20100519arizona-immigration-electricity-regulator-threatens-power-supply-los-angeles.html#ixzz0osfJgZhs