Posted on 06/04/2011 6:09:57 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
In May 2010, Los Angeles was a part of wave of cities that voted to boycott Arizona after lawmakers in that state passed a controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.
City Hall staffers were ordered to review contracts with Arizona companies for possible termination, and official travel to Arizona was supposed to be suspended.
But a year later, little has changed in the way Los Angeles does business with the state next door. The city still buys street sweeper parts from one Arizona firm and has a contract for emergency sewer repairs with another, officials say. The Harbor Department alone has four contracts with Arizona companies that total nearly $26 million.
A similar pattern can be seen across California. Boycotts in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles County made headlines last year but have since delivered little punch.
None of those jurisdictions has canceled a contract with an Arizona-based company because of the boycott — leading some immigrant-rights activists to dismiss the high-profile calls for economic sanctions as empty symbolism.
The disappointment is especially felt in Los Angeles, where Latino elected leaders strongly backed the sanctions.
"This is a moment of hypocrisy if the city of Los Angeles says one thing and does another," said Rabbi Jonathan Klein, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. Klein was speaking to a crowd of protesters gathered at City Hall to demand follow-through on the business ban.
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Remember the celebs who said they would leave the country if Bush got elected and/or re-elected? Did they?
I bet alot of Californians have moved to Arizona.
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They will get to just after their fall break.
Yup, the total whack jobs like Whoopie Goldberg, Ted Danson, Babs Streisand and Alec Baldwin to name just a few.
I would have gone to Lala Land and helped those scumbags pack too.
Arizona needs to cut off the electricity they send to those kalifornicators. Let ‘em sweat in the dark.
Well, there’s my wife and I.
And I remember how Susan Sarandon was claiming 10 million would die if we went to war in Iraq.
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What happened, I think, is a thing called W-A-T-E-R. L.A. is heavily dependent on water brought in from AZ, and AZ threatened retaliation if any of the CA cities/jurisdictions carried out the threatened boycotts.
didn’t the Gov Brewer laugh at LA something to the effect that Arizona would be more than happy to stop selling LA needed energy immediately, or something to that effect?
That “boycott” was a load. It was designed to give the “media” something to write about. We still see the occasional “Arizona is doomed” stories in our local liberal “media”. They keep writing about how bad the “boycott” has hurt Arizona. It’s just hard to tell if they have really had any effect at all on Arizona because the whole damn country is still in Barry’s depression. I believe the claims that the “boycott” is working is really nothing but more bull**** from the illegal alien activist groups.
Imagine if CA collapses and doesn't get enough Obama Money to bail them out. It'll be like hitting a hornet's nest with a rock, they will be swarming westward by the millions, seeking whom they may devour.
What's not to like?
Westward would be great!! Unfortunately eastward would be the result.
They got distracted by shiny objects and forgot about the boycott an hour after they announced it.Liberals have a habit of doing that.
“Arizona needs to cut off the electricity they send to those kalifornicators. Let ‘em sweat in the dark.”
Those are some HUGE coal plants and there’s huge amounts of greenhouse gasses being emitted.
Arizona should shut them off, if, for no other reason, to save the world.
Turns out, California doesn’t like boycotts, because it can’t leave the boys alone.
Present company excepted, of course.
Thanks moonshinner_09.
Looks like my support-Arizona shopping has outlasted the boycott - hot dogs and bacon from Bar-S Foods, Phoenix, AZ, always on sale at my local supermarket in Manhattan.
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