Posted on 05/17/2010 3:21:24 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Hood County Republican Party announced in a statement this weekend that it would boycott the City of Austin in response to the city's resolution to boycott Arizona.
Austin City Council passed a measure last Thursday, boycotting city employee travel to Arizona in response to the state's new immigration law. The law requires law enforcement to determine the immigration status of anyone a law enforcement official suspects of being in the country illegally.
Council members said the law condones racial profiling and said they want to make sure city employees aren't unfairly detained while on official business.
Hood County Republican Chairman Randy Shelton issued a statement saying he contacted the office of Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell to notify him the Hood County Republican Party would not do any business with the City of Austin.
The move by the Hood County Republican Party comes alongside a similar plea from the Burleson Tea Party.
"You discriminate against the great people of Arizona and against federal law being enforced by the great state of Arizona, through their own state law! Prepare to have the favor of a boycott returned against Austin," Burleson Tea Party Chairman Angela Cox said.
While the Hood County Republican Party calls for a boycott strictly limited to the business with the government body - the City of Austin - the Burleson Tea Party calls for a more holistic boycott.
"Fellow Texans/Americans, make your travel plans, dinner plans and tourist destination elsewhere, somewhere outside the city. There's a lot of other accommodations elsewhere," Cox wrote in a statement.
Other cities, including Los Angeles and San Diego, have taken similar steps to protest the law.
Well, I was already boycotting Hood, but now that they are boycotting Austin....wait. I’ll just stop sending emails to Austin, and reading the Austin American Statesmen.
Los Angeles and Austin place illegal aliens above American patriots.
What other @sshole towns are on board with these losers?
Los Angeles and Austin place illegal aliens above American patriots.
What other @sshole towns are on board with these losers?
Some business men are going to wake up...especially in California...and really start to rattle the cages of political folks to shut up. If you run a hotel in San Diego and lose twenty percent of your business over a month....you really start to get worried about the mess created.
If anyone wonders how the Civil War came to be...stand back and look at the us-versus-them mentality. This was precisely what existed in 1850.
It is actually un-Constitutional for a city or state to boycott another city or state.
Not that government cares about the law any longer.
San Diego has a lot to lose from the “zonies.” I lived in Yuma for many years and all people there seemingly wanted to do was get out of the heat and head to San Diego, 175 miles away.
Exactly. I see the hierarchy in San Diego is on board with the lawless idiots in LA and Austin.
To hell with all of them and their interests in absolute chaos and anarchy.
Its not good business to value the rights of Illegal Aliens over the rights of American Citizens.
These cities need to think twice about boycotting Arizona. Arizona will be able to better withstand a boycott than these cities will be able to
We are watching the seeds of CW2 being planted right before our eyes.
Perry just lost my vote because he is sissying out on this.
BTT
Can someone please start a list, updating it from time to time, on which cities are boycotting Arizona. I think the information needs to get out so people know.
Thanks, FRiend.
Looks like i won’t be spending money on any of those jerkwater democrat and illegal alien infested towns any time soon.
Now I have two reasons to hate Austin. UT is the other one....
So they are saying that their city employees are all Mexican? And wonder how many are illegals.
I’ve already been boycotting Austin for years now.
Buy and vacation in beautiful Pflugerville!!
(Between a Rock and a Weird place)
I’m a native Texan (West Texas) and have never understood the Austin thing. I have lived there, worked there and believe me, Austin is waaaay overrated. Pretentious, yes. One of the best places to live in the U.S.? Hardly.
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