by
David Safier
SB1070 "was never considered a tourism issue," according
to Kristen Jarnagin, VP of Communications for the Arizona Hotel
& Lodging Association. "It wasn't even on our radar screen."
Maybe it should have been on the radar.
[S]o far, the state has lost between $6 million and $10 million in
projected business revenue, with 23 group hotel bookings–from small
meetings to large conventions–having been canceled in protest since the
stroke of Brewer's pen, according to the Arizona Hotel & Lodging
Association.
The article goes on to talk about the dilemma the business community
is in. On the one hand, businesses aren't big fans of bills like SB1070,
since lots of immigrants are good for business.
[T]hey typically don't like immigration restrictions, the same way
other conservative constituency groups do. Businesses like being able to
hire labor, and they like cheap labor; any demagoguery against letting
immigrants into this country seems unproductive, to them, when they need
people to work.
But otherwise, they're allies of the anti-immigrant conservatives.
So what do they do? They stay neutral on SB1070 but complain about
the boycotts. Of course, they don't talk about their own financial pain due to the loss of business. Oh no,
that would sound greedy. They pretend they're worried about the low wage
workers who will have to be fired if business falls off. And "low wage
worker," of course, is code for Hispanics.
Isn't it wonderful to see how business cares about the little guy?
Not enough to give him/her a living wage or health coverage, of course,
but enough to say, "Please don't hit me — I mean him — with a boycott.
We care so deeply about our minimum and sub-minimum wage workers!"
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AZ BlueMeanie:
Wow, I wrote a couple of paragraphs and you call me ignorant, after you go off topic on drugs, guns, etc. Not sure where the “threat” was from Goldotti was either, or cause for your choice of words. You do seem quite volatile. Also, couldn’t you be a “brown person” from Europe (or elsewhere), not that I like the adjective.
Yes, on the guns, drugs, etc. If they are breaking the law, please do proscecute. I think you are missing the focus on AB1070 here though.
Also, I don’t think voting with my wallet is trivial, in fact I think it sends a stronger message than my political vote. Both my personal and company spending are significant. I won’t spend a dime in Los Angeles and avoid CA if posible. The taxing beast needs to be starved.
David Safier – I would suggest you post the text of AB1070 on your blog, or at least a link to it. It is short and your blogger’s could pick it apart. I’ve read it and it has little in common the the media propaganda.
regards,
First of all, are you trying to threaten me, you dumbass? How would you like to do some jail time? Threatening insurrection against the U.S. government is also a crime, so you are already two steps down the road to being a “criminal.”
Secondly, I am not Hispanic nor here illegally. It just so happens I am of Europoean descent, my family has lived in the U.S. for hundreds of years, and I am a U.S. citizen, so when you assume you make an ass out of you and… well, just you, dumbass.
Finally, weighing the cost of illegal activities is exactly what I do: drug trafficking, gun trafficking, and human trafficking by Americans in material support of the drug cartels in Mexico. These are the criminals who should be prosecuted. You apparently do not care about such illegal activity; you are content to blame their victims.
azbluemeanie……….please re read your post and grasp the full meaning. surely, you did not believe that we would allow you a stolen paradise forever??? weigh the cost and problems versus illegal aliens in our country. just do not understand the “brown people” thinking. you feel you are entitled to this country illegally? try to steal into another country and see what happens to you. my advice to you: get out now, before a war develops and much blood shed comes. think of your family’s safety and keeping the family together.
“We’re tired of the cry’s of racism and discrimation (sic) when we simply want our borders and laws recognized.” Really? Would this include prosecuting American drug users for materially supporting the drug cartel drug lords by their purchases of illegal drugs? Would this include the prosecution of gun dealers for materially supporting the drug cartel drug loads by supplying them with the weapons they use? Would this include prosecuting American businesses who materially support human trafficking “coyotes” by paying them to bring undocumented workers into the U.S. to be exploited by them? No? Just prosecute those “brown people”? That’s what I thought.
By the way, Mexico is Arizona’s largest trade partner and Mexicans spend billions of dollars within Arizona. The pittance you spend for your ignorant protest is trivial.
Rich, If you’ve looked at the comments on the blog, you’ll see we allow different viewpoints. Your comment is very polite and well within acceptable bounds whether I agree with you or not. We even leave semi-angry comments. The only ones we delete are truly abusive comments or ones that are completely off topic.
BIG SUPPORT for SB1070. I’ve written Governor Jan Brewer of my support and to hold the course. I now go online to shop Arizona before going anywhere else and I will be spending big when I visit the inlaws in Scottsdale this summer.
The articles highlighted in this blog are a great source of mis-information. We’re tired of the cry’s of racism and discrimation when we simply want our borders and laws recognized.
(I wonder if this comment will be deleted?)