What if, say, ALL the south held firm on these types of laws, and Arizona on its immigration law (to the extent that it can) and Indiana . . . .
At some point, they will only be able to film movies and hold games in NY and CA and MN.
Indiana capitulated last year to Salesforce.com
And Arizona capitulated to the NFL
States will not dare question big business who employ thousands. I expect the same to occur in NC shortly.
http://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-will-invest-in-indiana-again-2015-4
“The return to normal business in Indiana is because the state fixed its controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act clarifying that it could not be used as a legal defense for blanket discrimination against gay people.
Some say that the fixes to the law don’t go far enough to protect LGBT people from discrimination, but the adjustments are enough for Salesforce to its lift its sanctions against the state.
“The revised RFRA law is a first step in the right direction, and we have lifted all Salesforce travel restrictions to Indiana. We are excited to resume investing in this great state, which is home to our second largest campus,” Scott McCorkle told Business Insider in an emailed statement.
McCorkle is the CEO of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, a 2,000-ish employee unit based in Indianapolis after Salesforce bought McCorkle’s company ExactTarget in 2013.
McCorkle was vocally opposed to the law when it was just a bill, and sent open letters signed by multiple CEOs warning Indiana legislators that there would be backlash if the bill passed.
He helped stir Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s passionate response after the governor ignored those warnings and signed the law.
As soon as the law was signed, Benioff sprung into action. He canceled events and travel to Indiana and called his friends to alert them to what was going on in the state, too, and did a long string of media appearances.
Benioff is Valley royalty. He leads the largest tech company in the city of San Francisco. Soon the outcry went from a murmur to a roar with everyone from celebrities to Tim Cook vocally opposing the law.”