In the wake of the left-wing, open-borders boycott of Arizona over the new immigration law, the City of Phoenix estimates that it is on track to lose $90 MILLION in lost business. The left wing has mobilized en masse against Arizona, to huge effect.
According to Arizona's public officials, the open-borders lefties are successfully managing to put the economic squeeze on Arizona:
The legislation and firestorm of negative publicity that followed brought calls for boycotts, moved groups to back out of local conventions and led several cities to cut business ties with Arizona companies.
The loss of business is critical in a recession-battered state vitally dependent on visitor spending...
The backlash against Arizona couldn't come at a worse time, convention and business leaders say.
The state, which took in $18.5 billion in visitor spending in 2008, has seen its tourism industry struggle in the past couple of years as the U.S. economy sagged...
Officials were just starting to see signs of life when the backlash over the new immigration law began, said Debbie Johnson, CEO of the Arizona Tourism Alliance and the Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association.
To date, dozens of cities and groups have announced boycotts. Arizona has lost at least 30 to 40 meetings and conventions, she said.
"We were surprised by (the boycotts)," Johnson said. "We didn't think it was going to be a tourism issue. This is a political issue."
Despite certain initiatives created to help support Arizona, conservatives have failed to counter the massive left-wing economic onslaught.
Do you stand with Arizona?
Tell your grocer that you will not shop with them anymore if they carry Calfornia vegetables and fruits.
We have the same problem in TX! The illegals come here by the truck load, birth instant welfare tickets, then join gangs, trear up oiur towns, drag down our education system, suck off our social services, drive without insurance, cause accidents, and leave the scene or get let off while LEGAL WORKING AMERICANS get hurt, stuck with the damage/cost/debt/injury while the illegals run off. We had an illegal here last week cut a woman's head off with a chain saw, leave her body in the middle of a neighborhood street, went to Dallas to a car dealership to 'test drive' a car. Stole the car and headed to mexico....where he is now 'free'.
THAT CRAP NEEDS TO STOP!
America needs illegals like we need more national debt!
Spend the money on OUR kids and for OUR benefit and for OUR cities. I'm sick to death of wasting tax dollars providing illegals a free ride, all the while putting up with their attitudes, teier ignorance, their crime, and the trash/gangs and neighborhood ruination they bring!
I'm coming out in about 2 weeks to support AZ and do business within the state - about $6k.
I have Cali plates on my car - please don't harass me because I'm Californian.
Many of us support AZ - the idiots on the Los Angeles City Council and San Francisco City Council represent their very wealth campaign contributors and certain ethnic populations who work for the wealthy.
(The wealthy think that whatever bad happens won't affect them or their neighborhoods.)
I too am a native Californian with family in CA who are as disgusted as any normal, thinking, intelligent person is about the demise and destruction of CA.
LA looks like a mexican flea market as do many of TX cities near the borders. It is absolutely sickening to see so many tax dollars wasted on the care/feeding/education/housing/healthcare/crimes of CRIMINAL ALIENS.
Not EVERYTHING out of BEAUTIFUL California is bad, weird, illegal, or corrupt! Unfortunately, as in may other of our states, the idiots seem to be multiplying like fleas!
Go to AZ...show off your CA plates AND your CA intelligence!
I'M GOING TO DONATE NOW!
Overall, I felt free'r & safer in the UK than I do back here. Sad, but true.
As for the viewpoints people overseas have about the US, well, thats another sad story of us.
I live in Texas and will not spend money in Austin because of the call for a boycott of Arizona by the Austin City Council. I will call the Mayor tomorrow and tell him that when I travel to Austin in the future I will eat and stay in a hotel outside of Ausin.
YOU WILL NOT PAY STATE SALES TAX AND IN MANY CASES, WILL NOT PAY SHIPPING EITHER.
THEN CALL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ANDTELL TEHM WHAT YOU ARE DOING SO THEY CAN APPRECIATE THE IMPACT OF MONEY FLOWING OUT OF THEIR STATE TO SUPPORT AZ!
I stand behind you. No Illegals. Deport them and make them wait in line just like other people and do it the right way or NO Way1
Ya'll let me know If I can DO anything to help!
RICK PERRY IS A WEENIE FOR NOT STANDING UP WITH AZ. CALL HIS OFFICE AND TELL HIM WHAT YOU THINK OF HIM.
HE LACKS THE GONADS THAT JAN BREWER HAS!
AND THIS CLOWN IS A 'GOOD OL' BOY'?
WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT!
Everyone please support the Arizona companies that are being boycotted by the Left. I booked my vacation reservations with Best Western.
You are on the right track here and REAL AMERICANS support what you are doing.
I have come to AZ many times each year on vacation and will CONTINUE to support your wonderful state!
God Bless your people your Gov. and Sheriff Arpaio!
WAKE UP AMERICA! IF WE WANTED TO LIVE IN AND LIKE MEXICO/MEXICANS WE'D MOVE THERE!
THIS IS AMERICA NOT MEXICO!
SEND THEM PACKING!
CALL the AZ stores like those where you shop in your town. SPEND $. Get stuff shipped! Tell the sales people on the phone WHY you are buying over the phone! THEN...CALL YOUR LOCAL AND STATE OFFICIALS AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO SUPPORT AZ AND HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE GOING OUT OF YOUR STATE TO SUPPORT AZ!
If America removed dollar for dollar the cost burden of illegals, from any and all foreign aid we give mexico., GUESS WHO WOULD BE GUARDING OUR BORDERS?
Boston city is boycotting az, do you think I care,until they have a massive crime, security and financial problem because of this, then they can drop dead. I am not against immigration , just illegal immigration. This bill has brought out the idiots,everyone says its racist, but the issue is about the illegal criminal act.
http://www.az-buycott.com
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida,
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida,
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida,
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida,
No illegals, no amnesty. Tell them go home fix their own country. dont'bring yourself here unless you do it right. Judge you should be ashamed of yourself poking holes in the law. You will regret making this decision. Our "leaders' should be ashamed that we have no support from DC, well maybe individual people. We surely are living in the last days but while we are waiting,we are to occupy,& do the work before us. We will not tolerate invasion in our own country. the very first one who gets hurt or killed by an illegal, hold our leaders responsible, the blood is on their hands. God bless us with wisdom. we surley need it. Make them walk back to Mexico. we are not paying for it, cept maybe pregant women and babies. Children shouldn't pay for parents mistakes,Seek HIM while there is times.Rev Whitedove Apple