Letter sent to LA Mayor reminding him LA receives 25% of its electricity from Arizona

Here’s some insight we have from our days in Cleveland — a city’s Convention and Visitors’ Bureau is generally staffed by very reactionary people who are fairly easy to spook, and who almost always have a direct line to the city’s mayor.  A lot of times, these are wives of very rich people in town, who are only on the CVB because they like going to big parties and have lots of pretty pastel suits they can wear when having pictures taken with famous people in town for these events.  So, anything that mars the joy of collecting big salaries to sit in fancy offices with the best views of the city — while doing relatively little to actually bring business to town, except smile and meet people at the airport with Merchants’ Association gift baskets — is something that strikes immediate terror into their precious hearts.

These, in our experience, are not the brightest people in any room.  At least they weren’t in Cleveland.

They panic really, really easily. Whenever they detect anything at all that could harm a potential convention, or keep any group at all from coming to town, the CVB reacts swiftly, putting enormous pressure on mayors and city councils to get in front of the problem.

So, we wonder what would happen if nationwide an effort was spent to fire off thousands of letters to the CVBs of California cities, letting them know the actions being taken against the state of Arizona by California’s elected officials have made you cancel your trips to the golden state?

This feels, to us, like a backdoor pressure point that will quickly get the attention of people like Gavin Newsom and other California mayors who are slamming Arizona for actually enforcing federal immigration law.

Pair this with a continued Buycott Effort to help Arizona businesses, and the fact that nationally 60% of Americans (and growing) agrees with Arizona’s law enforcement policy, and California should start issuing new talking points on this matter really quickly.

Especially now that Arizona is threatening to stop selling California its surplus electricity.

Maybe should have thought of that before Sacramento and San Francisco declared war on its fellow state, for the heinous crime of enforcing existing law.