Posted on 05/17/2016 4:16:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Following the lead of progressive cities such as San Francisco, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday is poised to vote on banning city workers from traveling to North Carolina and Mississippi.
The San Jose City Council resolution suggests that the city bans all non-essential city travel and business to those two states, and also to refrain from buying goods headquartered there until there's a change to "overturn existing discriminatory policies on sexual orientation.
Both southern states approved legislation preventing anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people. North Carolina passed House Bill 2, or the "bathroom law," and Mississippi signed the "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act."
Both "undermine the values of equality and diversity that we embrace in the city of San Jose," Mayor Sam Liccardo wrote to the council. Councilman Raul Peralaz said that it might not matter if just one city votes to ban travel, but as a "collective," states who have such laws will see that many entities are "standing up for human rights."
San Francisco already banned non-essential government travel to North Carolina in March, and then banned travel to Mississippi in early April.
Stars including Bruce Springsteen, the NBA, as well as companies like PayPal and jurisdictions including Atlanta, Boston, Washington, New York, Vermont, Connecticut and Minnesota have all enacted similar travel bans in the name of civil rights.
NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell contributed to this report.
Singing “Do you know the way to San Jose”? NO, and I don’t care too.
Another Marxist shithole I won’t be visiting.
Re my money and travelling. Singing, “Save it for a rainy day”.
F.O California reds. Hope the Great Earthquake of 2016 gits you.
Homo-Fascism at work
♫ Do you know the way to San Jose? ♫
It seems that NC and MS could simply vote to return the favor.
Every government or agency which bans travel to NC should be recognized and where possible to cease any NC governmental business with companies in those places. I’m sure it wont make any difference in the long run, it is just a token.
San Jose commissioned a piece of “art” honoring the Nazis of pre-Columbia Central America and Mexico.
Quetzalcoatl
http://www.mydulllife.com/books/quetzalcoatl.html
Are they out in Left Field?
The balkanization of the United States is continuing according to plan.
Too funny, the leftist have run San Jose into the ground. They can’t afford to send a Dog Catcher to San Francisco. All talk to distract the dopes that voted them in, nothing else.
A city that allows men to use walls of anything as a latrine should hardly be.......
You need a geography lesson.
Only 47 more States need to join SC and MS and the loonies in San Jose will be forced to stay home....
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