Chicago Republicans

May 13, 2010:  L.A. City Council passes a measure establishing an economic boycott of Arizona over Arizona's new immigration law.

June 7, 2010:  Arizona power companies divert all power formerly sent to southern California to other states.  25% of Los Angeles electric power comes over the border from Arizona, so L.A. is plunged into darkness.

June 8, 2010:  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa calls upon Arizona to “take it easy” and turn the power back on.

June 9, 2010:  Arizona announces that it will now withdraw its full 2.8 million acre feet per year allotment from the Colorado River before that water gets anywhere near the California border, an increased draw of 500,000 to 1.0 million acre feet.   The new draw total means far less water for Los Angeles and southern California, as Colorado River water supplies 18 million customers in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.  Arizona announces that the unused portion of the Arizona allotment, previously being made available to California on a voluntary basis by Arizona, will be diverted to form “Lake Villaraigosa” a new tourist and convention center project west of Phoenix.

June 10, 2010:  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asks Arizona to not get so hasty, and offers Laker playoff tickets to Arizona’s Governor if she will turn the power back on.  

June 11, 2010:  The Arizona Department of Transportation announces major new resurfacing projects on Interstates 8, 10 and 40 near the California border.  Truck and traffic delays for movement into California are projected to be “extensive.”

June 14, 2010:   Los Angeles Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa requests immediate settlement talks with Arizona and announces that Matthew McConaughey, Robert Pattinson, Megan Fox and Scarlett Johansson will lead the Los Angeles delegation.   Border crossings at San Ysidro slow to a trickle as Mexicans decide they are better off in Mexico than in southern California.

June 15, 2010:    Los Angeles Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announces that Arizona can have any damned law they like, as long as they turn the power and water back on.

June 16, 2010:  Arizona Governor counter-offers on talks, stating the condition that California accept immediate transfer of Mexican criminal gangs, present in Arizona as illegal aliens, from Phoenix and Tucson to L.A.  “They’ll fit right in!” she notes.  

June 17, 2010:  Los Angeles Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa agrees to all conditions for talks. 

June 19, 2010:  Kidnapping for ransom skyrockets in L.A. as Mexican gangs arrive.  Kidnapping rates in Phoenix, recently the second highest in the world after Mexico City, plummet.

June 21, 2010:  L.A. Deputy Mayor announces that Mayor Villaraigosa will not be able to attend the talks with Arizona, as he has himself has been kidnapped for ransom.  The rest of the delegation arrives in Flagstaff for talks.

June 22, 2010:  Arizona and L.A. delegations meet and agree on withdrawal of all boycotts, and resumption of power, electrical and road service to California.   All Mexican gangs transferred are to stay in California, where their illegal alien status will not be questioned.  

June 23, 2010:  L.A. City Council rejects all ransom demands for Mayor Villaraigosa, and advises the gangs to keep him and put him to work somehow.