Los Angeles City Council Votes to Boycott Arizona

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According to Fox news;

"The City Council voted Wednesday to boycott Arizona businesses, making Los Angeles the largest city to take such action to protest the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigration."

"...The resolution is expected to be signed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. It bars the nation's second-largest city from conducting business or reaching new contracts with Arizona businesses unless the immigration law is repealed, and also prohibits most city business trips to the state."

The resolution claims that Arizona's new law encourages racial profiling and is unconstitutional.
Polls have shown strong grass root citizen support for the Arizona law. However, several persons elected by those very same citizens seem to think that they are smarter and have a duty to teach and lead the unwashed masses.  Several other cities have already passed resolutions or urged boycotts to protest the law, including Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego, California.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said the new law simply upholds federal law reqiring legal immigrants carry immigration papers and that charges that the law mandates racial profiling are "just pure rhetoric

"... I have a responsibility to stand up and protect the people of Arizona and we will do that...I find it really interesting that we have people out there that are attempting a boycott in favor of illegal actions in Arizona. That to me is just unbelievable."

Niether hearing nor caring, Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who co-authored the nasty LA action, implied it was a simply a statement, and said, "We want to stand back and say that we're against it. We're hoping that Arizona will be the last state to do this instead of just the first state to do it."

But no, this is not just a simple resolution making an informational statement.  This resolution is being used as full force of law. It is an action, taken for the purpose of incurring as much financial pain on Arizona as possilbe.

Los Angeles' chief legislative analyst, Gerry Miller, issued a report recommending the council "suspend travel, cut contracts and refrain from making any new ones with Arizona-based firms."  The council then asked lawyers to report back in a week on which Arizona contracts could be terminated without incurring lawsuits. 
Hahn also called for a review of the city's investments and a removal of anything invested in Arizona.

Members of the Council, truly believing that eveyone thinks the same as they do, suggested the city lure potential conventions out of Arizona and into LA, and offer Arizona businesses incentives as well to relocate to Los Angeles. (Hey. is it possible that the LA council is using this Arizona law as a convenient excuse - when in fact, what LA is really trying to do is bring money back into its bankrupt coffers?)

The lone dissenter, Councilman Greig Smith, said he opposed the boycott because he did not believe taking action on another state's laws was within the council's jurisdiction, and that the action didn't serve the city's economic interests.

"I have always opposed using the Los Angeles City Council to weigh in on non-related social issues that are not within the purview of Los Angeles," Smith said

Oakland, San Francisco, and San Diego are also taking similar ridiculous action against their neighboring state, Arizona. Those of us who Support Arizona and her decision to protect lawful citizens will now refuse to do any business or vacationing in California until they grow up and stop their nonsense.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/12/los-angeles-city-council-votes-boycott-arizona-immigration-law/
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