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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Meanwhile, in 2010 .... an economic boycott of Arizona is cooking up. The first cancellation? The annual conference of the National Immigration Lawyers Association. Yah really.  |
AZ officials are probably more concerned about the real possibility of losing the 2011 All Star game...much like they lost the Super Bowl in the early 90s as a result of being the only state not to adopt the Martin Luther King Holiday.
That boycott cost the state $hundreds of millions in lost conventions, tourism, etc.
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Something similar happened in the early 1990s, when the voters of Arizona failed to endorse a holiday for Martin Luther King. The estimated cost to Arizona businesses during 1991 and 1992 was $340 million. The National Football League pulled the 1993 Super Bowl out of Phoenix, moving it to Pasadena.
Up now? Major League Baseball. The 2011 All-Star game is slated to be held at the home of the Diamondbacks.
For a sport that relies heavily on Latinos for its players, the idea of holding the game in a state where they may be asked to show they're entitled to be in the country strikes the wrong chord. Over a quarter of Major League Baseball players (27 percent) are Latino, and some of its biggest stars have last names like Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Ramirez, or Hernandez.
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/tony_...mmigration_law
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And for the record, I am not paid to endorse any position and never have been since my short stint in the US Senate staff in the early 80s.