Saturday Short & Sweet News Brief
Gloom and Despair at the Goober Convention
The California GOP has gathered in Sacramento for a misery loves company themed convention. The party is almost broke, morale is at a historic low, Latinos don't like them, and there are no bright stars on the horizon. Whitman and Fiorina, of course, headed for the hills some time ago.
Arizona, still suffering from the economic blowback caused by SB1070 has just nixed a new round of immigrant bashing bills proposed by the author of SB1070, Sen. Russell Pearce. The most vocal opponents of the bills? The Arizona business community. 60 CEOs from a broad swath of Arizona corporations signed a letter to the Senate that stated;
Arizona’s lawmakers and citizens are right to be concerned about illegal immigration. But we must acknowledge that when Arizona goes it alone on this issue, unintended consequences inevitably occur. Last year, boycotts were called against our state’s business community, adversely impacting our already-struggling economy and costing us jobs. Arizona-based businesses saw contracts cancelled or were turned away from bidding. “Sales outside of the state declined. Even a business which merely had ‘Arizona’ in its name felt the effects of the boycotts, compelling them to launch an educational campaign about their company’s roots in Brooklyn. It is an undeniable fact that each of our companies and our employees were impacted by the boycotts and the coincident negative image.
“Tourism, one of our state’s largest industries and employment centers, also suffered from negative perceptions after the passage of SB 1070. The fact Gov. Brewer directed $250,000 to repairing Arizona’s reputation strongly suggests these efforts – whether fair or unfair - are harmful to our image".
Hey, what happened to the "Boycotts won't hurt Arizona" crowd?
Labels: california GOP, SB1070
Posted by Unknown @ 3/19/2011 12:47:00 PM
16 Comments:
Say what you want, Joe B, but the people of Arizona easily re-elected her. She represents a lot of frustrated, fearful Americans while Obama is on the clock. He won't be for much longer.
There you go again Joe.....citing a left wing blog site as fact...keep deluding yourself. As I said, you are setting yourself up for an epic fail.
2:39, This is the letter sent by the CEOs. You can find it anywhere. What part of stupid are you?
OK 3:08....they signed a letter wanting the feds to handle immigration, which the Feds have FAILED to do, and WILL NOT do.
How many more must DIE, before the Feds step in??? Arizona had NO choice but to act, and the imbeciles that went to boycott DO NOT understand what is happening there!!
I guess you want more people to die huh?? These CEO's are putting money before people, I thought that would upset you libs, but you just dont care if it furthers your agenda, right? Hypocrite!!
3:30, The crime rate in Az is extremely low. El Paso is the 2nd or 3rd safest city in the country. There is no immigrant crime wave! The CEOs want the lunatics in the gov't to stop making bad laws that are ruining AZ's reputation and killing tourism. You need to stop watching Fox News.
3:40....I'm talking about the Border violence, or have you not heard of it?? The cartels are moving further and further into Arizona, and there are areas that even law enforcement cant go because it is too dangerous. Again, how many must DIE before the Fed acts??
I think you need to cut down on the caffeine and Glen Beck;
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/02/20100502arizona-border-violence-mexico.html
The latest story now is that some sane conservatives have started a "Stop Palin" campaign. That would seem to mean that the pro-Obama people might have to find a way to promote pro-Palin efforts.
If the Feds would have enforced the immigration laws now on the books years ago there would not be the above discussion and we would all be in a happier place
The Pro-Obamas don't have to do shit. There's not a GOP candidate out there that can beat him.
If the voters of Arizona didn't like Jan Brewer, they wouldn't have re-elected her in a LANDSLIDE.
That's the only thing that matters.
Meanwhile, in LA, we've got a knuckleheaded, 3x Cal-Bar failure as Mayor, and a City Council has us hundreds of millions in debt.
Who's the idiot now?
Joe needs to realize that the time for the left has come and gone.
So much for "change you can believe in!"
President Obama should have taken a much different course from Day One. He is going to cost the left dearly, and already is.
I go to UCLA, but am from Arizona. I think you're missing how much people of Arizona feel Gov Brewer speaks for them.
You can make fun of the way she speaks, or her age or looks, but that speaks poorly of you, not her.
I don't know if the last poster really IS a UCLA student from Arizona, but if they support Arizona's laws and attitudes, must feel like a fish out of water here.
That UCLA student who posted the rant about Asians was stupid to make it public, but the fact that the school is 40% Asian reflects that it does NOT reflect the local population. Not just when it comes to minorities but also whites, who are a minority there.
And she's right many maintain their own insular culture and mannerisms, feel superior to white Americans and are obsessed with grades, without volunteering or giving back to the community as a whole. Their immigrant parents are obsessed with status and money.
So openly it IS funny. I hear some Asian students on campus complaining to each other about it. (In a curious backlash, I heard one girl tell another her mother was pressuring her to marry a white guy because it's greater status, and many Asian men look weak.)
They want our tax-funded education but not our culture or traditions. But if any white person feels the same about wanting to preserve
"anglo" culture and traditions, and English as the unifying language, they're called "racist."
And the person who says it's false and racist to claim Arizona has a crime problem from south of the border is reading biases statistics. Many cities do a good job controlling crime, while many on the border are inundated with drug problems, left with billions in hospital bills from those who cross over to use emergency rooms and give birth, and the schools are overwhelmed.
We must deal with these real issues not sweep them under the rug and just ostracize (and like in the case of the UCLA girl, threaten to even kill her) for speaking what many think.
Liberal idiot. El Paso is in Texas, not Arizona.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WILL BRING THIS COUNTRY DOWN AND SO WILL IMMIGRATION REFORM. IT'S ALL A ONE WAY STREET FINANCED BY LA RAZA AND MALDEF. THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY MUST REALIZE JUST HOW THIS IS IMPACTING THIS COUNTRY'S ABILITY TO OVERCOME THIS DEPRESSION. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IMMIGRATION BUILT THIS COUNTRY THEN IT WAS NEEDED. BUT NO MORE, NOW IT WILL BRING TOTAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE RESOURSES TO SUPPORT IT. JOB MARKETS WILL GROW CREATING LESS ACCESS TO EDUCATION AS COSTS WILL INCREASE, TRAFIC WILL INCREASE, BUILDING WILL INCREASE, TRASH WILL INCREASE , WASTE WILL INCREASE, HOMELESS AND CRIME WILL INCREASE AS PEOPLE BECOME MORE DESPERATE TO SURVIVE. IT'S A BAD MIX.
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