I haven‘t heard back from the mayor yet about whether he’s going to fire David Freeman, the head of L.A.‘s Department of Water and Power (DWP) and the man most responsible for Los Angeles’ preposterously fortunate position during the California electrical debacle. But I read and hear that Mayor Richard Riordan is surprisingly upset with Freeman, even though Los Angeles has inexpensive power to spare, while the fair cities on the Bay are browning out like Djibouti in the monsoon.Now, there are accidental and historical factors at play here for which no one alive can take credit. Yet it was Freeman who had the vision to make this good fortune possible, in part by outmaneuvering the mayor who appointed him three years ago. Freeman headed off Riordan‘s notions of privatizing the utility when he acted quickly to shrink the DWP’s debt and payroll. He could have failed: Just imagine how fun it would be if the near-bankrupt Edison company owned our power stations, and Los Angeles was browning out too.