Sanctuary city San Francisco is leading the charge in pressing municipalities and groups to consider a boycott of Arizona over its law that will allow police to ask people their immigration status.If Arizona really wants to fight back they can do what Rush Limbaugh suggested. Publicize all the programs that are free to illegal immigrants in San Francisco and offer one-way travel to get there. Dumping tens of thousands of illegal aliens into the San Francisco social welfare programs would shut them up pretty quickly.
Mayor Gavin Newsom this week suspended all non-essential travel for city employees going to Arizona, meaning no conference in Scottsdale next weekend for members of the city's housing authorities. The city's Board of Supervisors also has taken the first step toward an economic boycott, a move that could result in the suspension of existing contracts with Arizona-based companies and a ban on new ones.
But Newsom also has formed an "Arizona Boycott Workgroup” to analyze if and how an economic boycott could backfire on San Francisco businesses. For instance, the city does business with a company that accepts and processes payments in Arizona. There's concern if the boycott is made uniform, 2,500 San Franciscans could lose their jobs.
Groups like the San Francisco Convention Bureau and the city's restaurant lobby also worry about a reciprocal backlash.
"Would Arizona and other states that are more conservative than San Francisco retaliate and stop sending conventions to San Francisco?" asked Kevin Westly of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. "Certainly in a recession, we don't want any retaliation."
Thursday, April 29, 2010
San Franciscans Worry About Retaliation Over Arizona Boycott
And well they should. A lot of people have been willing to put up with San Francisco's far-left liberalism when it wasn't dangerous to the rest of the country, but their decision to boycott Arizona because the state wants to enforce the law may have pushed tolerance for crazy lefties a bit too far:
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