Tit for Tat

Phoenix resident John Spencer said Wednesday night that he had canceled four summer trips to Los Angeles to protest a vote by the Los Angeles City Council to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state.

"I'm urging all my friends not to go to California this year," Spencer said in a telephone interview, adding that he had scratched trips to Newport Beach, San Diego and the Bay Area. "We're not going to come to California."

Okay. Enjoy the four months of triple-digit weather.

"It's just not fair," Spencer said of the council's vote.

See, I might have had some sympathy but when I hear people whine about "fairness" in a decision like this, it irks me. Friends of mine who have the misfortune of having to deal with the local impact of their city council's decisions as it pertains to more immediate needs of trash removal and street repair, they are the ones who should be pissed at their council for wasting the time on Arizona, not you.