Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Politics Arizona Congressman: Please, Everyone, Boycott My State Until They Stop Being Such Crazy Birther Racists All the Damn Time
Posted by Mark Asch on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:10 PM
He also took note of a bill, just passed by the Arizona House, which would allow on the state presidential ballot only candidates who can furnish proof that they are not secret Kenyans: "It's embarrassing to those of us from the state of Arizona who feel that we're much better than that."
So? So: "The consequences we can only bring up right now is economic sanctions," like we have in place with Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, et cetera:
We're asking organizations—civic, religious, labor, Latino, organizations of color—to refrain from using Arizona as a convention site, to refrain from spending their dollars in the state of Arizona until Arizona turns the clock forward instead of backwards and joins the rest of the union.
The gentleman from Arizona—co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, incidentally—is far from the first Tusconan to feel such burning embarrassment over his home state's shenanigans; most of the prior cases I've encountered, however, have simply decided to move to New York, rather than institute a crippling boycott of the bolo tie and prickly pear cactus jelly industries.
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