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City leaders approve Arizona boycott
by Kathleen Haley, published on June 15, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Storyline: Sacramento City Hall / Politics
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Sacramento’s elected leaders agreed to boycott Arizona companies in protest of the state’s new immigration laws.
The City Council passed the boycott Tuesday with a 6-1 vote. Mayor Kevin Johnson and council members Rob Fong, Bonnie Pannell, Ray Tretheway, Sandy Sheedy and Kevin McCarty voted to approve the boycott.
Councilman Robbie Waters opposed the move.
Council members Steve Cohn and Lauren Hammond were absent.
Hammond was absent from the entire City Council meeting, but Cohn appeared at City Hall to discuss a separate issue after the hearing on the Arizona law.
Arizona’s new law says that an individual’s immigration status should be addressed by police officers in certain circumstances. If police officers think an individual is an illegal immigrant, then they must review the individual’s immigration status, the law states. The police must account for immigration status during “enforcement of any law or ordinance of a county, city or town” in Arizona, the law also states.
Read the details of the resolution approved by the City Council here.
Photo by Anthony Bento.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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So the election results should not be seen as a stamp of approval for the boycott. In fact, we found just the opposite.
Search for "Boycott Sacramento Business" and give our community page a "Like". Our boycott focus is on Rob Fong's District 4. This is the area from southside of downtown through Land Park/S. Land Park and Greenhaven. Bordered to the West by the Sac River and to the East by roughly Freeport Blvd.
Popular businesses in this are are the Tower Theatre/Tower Cafe, Ernestos, Sacramento Zoo / Funderland (city owned BTW), Capital Nursery, Scott's Seafood on the River, Giovanni's Pizza S. Land Park, Ford's Hamburgers, Taylors Market/Taylors Kitchen, Freeport Bakery, Avid Reader etc.
Call these businesses and let them know why you are not there!
Drop a line to Rob Fong at rkfong@cityofsacramento.org
I predict this will go the way of that petition by 'JoeSac' to do whatever, having grown exponentially from 2 hits to 11, in what, three weeks???
Besides, what kind of midwestern dullard severity would it take to avoid Freeport Bakery, in all their luciousness, or Taylor's best meats in the region and one of the finest fine dining experiences this town has to offer, and so many other wonderful firms that provide Sacramento with what its culture has become???
I'm betting you're an 'Outback' or "Olive Garden' aficionado...
You are entitled to your opinion and I respect people for sharing their opinion. You are entitled to boycott anything you don't approve of and I respect people for moving taking action..... I do agree with the council not approving of the Arizona law. It will hurt Arizona businesses ( I know that’s the point) but people who have families to feed will hurt…. I just wish Sacramento would have been more creative in how they wanted to boycott Arizona and not jump on the bandwagon.... I disagree with the Arizona law and I disagree with how we are addressing it. And I disagree with boycotting businesses in Fong's district-- Heck, 7 others also voted yes, if we boycotted businesses in all the districts but Fong's think how much of a mess Sac will be in...... and we do more business here than Arizona, why would we also hurt ourselves, Sac residents, businesses….??
I think most of us are afflicted with loneliness, so in that regard, I'm quite normal -- but that makes you in denial of life's little quirks...
And, lastly, I hate no one -- but expressing my views in expressive language that transcends the grunts and groans of a 'vox populi' of a few misinformed poor possibly crossbred Natomas critters is not 'hate' -- here on planet earth we call it good citizenship.... in English... Again, clearly not a calling of those who just can't stand that I write better than they do...
Qu'elle dommage....
Your constant ad hominem attacks and lack of evidence 60% of the time make you come across and establish that you are
A) A well educated troll that really has no interest in educating other people on issues or having a civil discussion without resorting to childish name calling and putting others down for your assumement.
B) Some kind liberal elitist so on your own highhorse that unless someone kisses your butt and agrees wholly with you 100%, without question they are a bumbling redneck idiot that voted for Bush and thinks Reagan was the best president ever. There's no middle ground with you and you believe or give the impression (save for a very few cases just in case you get all PC retalitatory) that you can and never have been wrong.
Here's where you respond mocking my grammar and a simple spelling error I missed because I live on here and think of well written 40 paragraph rants.
P.S
In case you have picked up on this yet, I am not a Republican nor Democract but a moderate and probably much more liberal leaning than conservative.
I live in District 4, Rob is my councilmember Overall I have been generally satisfied with his representation of the District over the years, until this. I make a point to support local businesses and have become friends with many of the business owners over the years. Obviously it's tough to consider pulling people into this boycott business who would just as focus on their livelyhood (just as the workers and businesses in Arizona would also. I don't generally eat at chains myself, but I have no problem with people that do.
I grew up poor, but with parents who started and ran multiple small businesse in a very rural area. My father has not been an employee since working on the AMC Rambler line in 1962 or so. So i do not take the idea of boycott of District 4 businesses lightly and I appreciate the downsides. If someone has an effective way to communicate with city hall on this issue besides a local boycott, I would love to hear it.
At the same time I am really concerned about our city stepping into the space of using economic boycotts for policies they don't like (or as a red herring diversion from real issues, or to make a political name for oneself).
This is one of those issues that has really captured my attention, and causes me great concern for the health of our city. I love open discourse, and I have no problem if someone has valid concerns about Arizona''s lawmaking. But using political force to enact economic boycotts is not the answer and must be stopped with whatever force is necessary, including very targetted micro-local boycotts.
I have about 70 facebook friends on this issue so far, and a similar number of private emails to boycottsacramento@gmail.com. I don't know if that is enough to get the ball rolling or not. We will see.
You got me. I confess. Because I am white I am obviously a racist and a KKK member. And because I grew up in the midwest I am toothless, uneducated simpleton chewing on a stalk of barley while watching Hee-Haw.
Thanks for helping me uncover who I really am bbbmer.
If you assume Rob is working towards his next political goal, either the mayorship in 2012 or an Assembly or State Senate seat, something like this probably looks pretty good on the resume (you gotta consider the audience in these races). It will not win Rob another term on the council, but Rob is looking past that anyway.
So yeah a ttotal circle jerk for the residents and taxpayers of Sacramento. But maybe a good chess move by Rob Fong.
I put money on Braziel - if he runs, which I think he will, he will win
Braziel can't even pass the vetting for the police department of another jurisdiction, and no doubt just painted a happy face on Seattle's selection of another candidate.
Braziel probably couldn't even be elected to his current position if it was put to a vote, given a proper airing of his mismanagement in office...
I'm sure KJ has a place on his staff for him -- he needs a 'fixer' at his disposal at all times, it seems...
Not enough balls to vote up or down? Did they somehow misunderstand that their job is to make decisions on issues affecting the city?
The truth is that many who are anti-immigrant are actually anti-Mexican and their ignorant racism is lightly veiled behind the insane anti-immigrant position of many mean-spirited reactionaries.
Mexican people are indigenous to these lands ~especially the U.S. Southwest, which many Chicanos still refer to as Aztlan (our land). How can a people whose ancestral land was originally stolen by an invading occupying armed force be considered illegal aliens now?
Clearly there is a crying need for sane humane immigration legislation! Know that over eleven (11) million Mexicans without legal documents are not busy packing their belongings now, esp. if they have been here for decades as law-biding hard workers who help keep the shaky economy going.
Rid yourself of the psycho-social disease of racism White Americans! Mexicans do not riot but have been known to get involved in bloody revolution. Let us decide to take the path of peace and open dialogue about our differences as intelligent beings. Let us open our borders, work together and see that we are really one human family upon one planet called Mother Earth. ~Che Peta
~ http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan c/s
Seems you look at some and not all, or at least not “some of your own” You spoke of Mother Earth. I believe in Mother Earth, Grandfather Creator, Father Sky, heck moon people; cloud people... the eagle; spirit of the East, the bear; spirit of the West; the cougar; spirit of the South, the Buffalo; spirit of the North, all our relations. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus. I believe in Love, peace....... But what I do not believe in is deceit, racism..... Your comment of rid yourself of the psycho-social disease of racism White Americans-- is racist- it's stereotyping all whites has being racists when I know for a fact there are some Mexicans, Latino's, Black, Asian, Native American, White.... people of all ethnic backgrounds who stood at city all both supporting and all of the above also opposing the Arizona Boycott.
It's not fair to simply look at others; when we should look all around us and )--"some of our own" (since people like to lump people in categories)
I just love how you wrap up any opposition to illegal immigration as racism.
I guess it makes things neat and tidy in your mind. And then you point out that these are your "ancestral lands" which may or may not even be true (the history of humanity is one of migration you know).
I can only surmise that you feel that most white American are racists, and thus its due justice if latinos can slowly retake their ancestral homeland by storming a US border that shouldn't exist.
That is a pretty far out viewpoint you know, but I also know it is a common belief among open border advocates like yourself.
i am going to boycott the federal government. i believe i am unfairly taxed and my income taxes are not going towards the benefit of my fellow citizens.
doesn't that sound stupid? it is, and so is this boycott.
Fong, and most of the rest of them with the exception of Waters, are grandstanding fraudulent hypocrites. Sacramento city PD uses the Sacramento County Sheriff to perform their immigration checks. It's a "straw man" situation. Sac City council has been made aware that Sacramento county sheriffs are acting as immigration agents in the jail, and they are checking the immigration status of Sac city PD's arrests when they book them. I produced proof that people arrested by Sac PD had immigration holds placed on them, and that some were deported after. In addition, many of the crimes they were arrested for were traffic infraction, possession of less than 1 oz. of weed, and drunk and disorderly. If the sac City council and Fong feel so strongly about local police officers doing immigration checks, they should be voting to end their contract with the Sac sheriff, and vote to sanction Sacramento county.
Fong, McCarty, ,,all of them except Waters are pot-calling-the-kettle-black, fraudulent hypocrites on this issue.
If I were Arizona I'd rescind the invitation. We should get our own matters in order before sticking our noses elsewhere.
Now, HE would make a GREAT mayor!
I think the city should have taken a stand against the discriminatory law. I can't say I agree with the boycott because usually it means the people at the lower end of the pole will suffer more but I do think they should have stood up especially since witnessing so many city residents address that were at city hall concerned of the Arizona law……. Heck, In the words of Dr King; what affects one of us directly affects all of us indirectly...... Again, I agree with your post. I have to run but have a good day.
According to WikiAnswers, these are Arizona's primary offerings to the world.
Pennys, panties, patties, prunes. I suppose I could live without these items for a couple of days.
Its about the same impact as Democrat Bob Etheridges assault on that little college kid... except bbbmer gives it to us 20 times a day. You just don't realize how lucky we are to have bbbmer on our side
Personally, I'm with JimmyWee when it comes to bbbbmer.
But did you ever consider that we "all" might just be a single schizoid with multiple personality manifestations? Like a Cybil who is obsessed with commenting on news articles.
Probably not. It would run the sanctimony.
Your Government is so good that they have hung signs up in southern Arizona that say for Americans not to tread here because it's unsafe!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PjLi7-i9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-gUGBssZc
So we are from the Government and we are here to keep you safe! :)
I doubt it. It would run the sanctimony.
Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery.
Your Government is so good that they have hung signs up in southern Arizona that say for Americans not to tread here because it's unsafe!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PjLi7-i9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-gUGBssZc
So we are from the Government and we are here to keep you safe! :)
According to WikiAnswers, these are Arizona's primary offerings to the world.
Pennys, panties, patties, prunes. I suppose I could live without these items for a couple of days.
California: the Granola State. What isn't fruits & nuts is flakes. :)
So now that you've been childish, care to act like an adult or is that against the Liberal Mindset?
The fact remains that the City Council and the Mayor need to focus on issues that actually affect Sacramento and it's residents. It's not like there is a shortage of them. By boycotting Arizona, they claim to take the moral high ground and stand up for civil rights, but how does this improve the quality of life for Sacramento residents?
Simply put: It doesn't. They are merely attempting to distract voters from noticing their complete incompetence when it's come to improving our city. It seems that they'd rather stand on a soapbox and rally against the actions of another state, rather than deal with the issues in their own back yard.
And yes, I understand that their actions probably came at the call of their constituents. But they need not give in to the whims and cries of a mob every time it gets rustled. They need to focus on the actual responsibilities of their job description.