PRESS RELEASE
Boycott Sacramento Members Urge Sacramento City Council to Rescind
Arizona Boycott
Sacramento, CA (July 30, 2010)
In response to the injunctions put in place by U.S. District Court
Judge Susan Bolton against the implementation of Arizona immigration
law SB1070, the Boycott Sacramento group (
http://www.BoycottSacramento.com/ ) is urging the Sacramento City
Council to rescind their resolution of
economic sanctions against the State of Arizona which they passed on
June 15, 2010.
Followers of the BoycottSacramento.com site believe that state and
local government jurisdictions should not initiate boycotts or
"economic sanctions" against fellow Americans, and intend to
demonstrate the impact of such boycotts to the Sacramento City Council
by encouraging their friends and neighbors to boycott
businesses located within the Sacramento city limits.
The BoycottSacramento.com group has registered as a General Purpose
Committee with the California Secretary of State and is collecting
donations to expand their public relations campaign to traditional
media. They currently are distributing yard signs, bumper
stickers and postcards, and are using Meetup.com to schedule picketing
events at upcoming City Council meetings and in front of large
retailers within the city.
The group's spokesman, Gerald Klaas said, "I hope the City Council
takes this opportunity to reconsider their ill-advised boycott of the
State of Arizona. I still wonder who they plan to boycott
next. Will they boycott Montana because they don't like that
state's intra-state gun laws? Will they boycott Oregon because
they don't like that state's assisted-suicide law? Will they
encourage other state and local jurisdictions to boycott California
when we pass controversial laws like Proposition 215 or Proposition
187? "
Klaas said, "There is no way that the Sacramento boycott is going to
impact the State of Arizona, however it will cost Sacramentans for the
time and effort expended to review all of the city's existing and
planned contracts for connections to the recently out-of-favor
state. This is political grandstanding at its worst. It
serves no practical purpose, but in the name of political correctness
it sidesteps our established system of jurisprudence. Why didn't
the City Council wait for the case to come before a federal court and
file an amicus brief? Instead they chose to set a precedent of
action that invites other jurisdictions to boycott California the next
time we pass a controversial law."
Klaas said, "Considering the governmental messes that both the City of
Sacramento and the State of California find themselves in, does the
City Council not see how pretentious and out of line it is to preach to
Arizona how they should be running their business? Have they
never read the Constitution? I suggest they start with the 10th
Amendment and the 'full faith and credit' clause."
Gerald Klaas can be reached by e-mail at boycott@sacto.com or (916)
222-2420.
This press release is available in PDF format http://www.boycottsacramento.com/data/pr20100730.pdf
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