This is in Austin, TEXAS. What's y'alls' town doing about it?

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/cityhall/entries/2010/05/13/council_oks_resolution_to_prot.html?srcTrk=RTR_661354

The Austin City Council passed a resolution this morning aimed at ending business and travel ties to Arizona to protest a new state law that allows Arizona law enforcement officers to detain people they suspect are in the country illegally.

The resolution, proposed by Council Member Mike Martinez, calls for ending all business-related travel to Arizona by city employees...

Council members have said that the new law is discriminatory and that they don’t want to put city employees at risk of being detained during business travel. Martinez said Thursday that he wanted to clarify that the resolution calls for ending business ties with the state of Arizona, not businesses located there.
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And Denver Public Schools are boycotting, too.

A small lake of blue in a red state. Still haven't found any place I like more. Glad Austin is taking a place in leading the blow-back against this horrible law.

scheduled to vote soon. :hi:

somewhere.

issues. I wouldn't mind retiring there at all. We were at DLI in Monterey a long time ago and went to San Francisco many times. We were back there this summer and it was even more lovely than I had remembered. If only I didn't feel like I needed rock climbing gear to walk up the sidewalks... :rofl:

anywhere but in AZ. :rofl:

My council member is one of the folks pushing it.

That makes Austin the only sane place in Texas.

I doubt Freepertown (Bryan/College Station) will do any such thing.

And El Paso, although that's practically New Mexico instead of Texas.

Not a real surprise but Austin? That's cool to read.

:hi:

but more moderate GOPers know that if such a law ever passed in Texas, it would be the death knell of the GOP in Texas.

dg

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and now living in Texas, I know what it's like for a state to be villified for the actions of its government and its less informed citizens. I've been to Arizona and love the state, and I'm glad to see many people there taking a stand. :)

painting AZ. So beautiful and so various.

Proud to be an Austinite!!

:applause:

and getting some grumbles. but holding on

can't convince my wife to move to Texas.

I've been to Austin a couple of times and it is a great city!

Actually, Texas is a damn fine state to live in. Just don't read the papers and be careful who you make eye contact with. :) It's a beautiful place.

I love my city! :bounce:

Keepin Austin Wierd while going Onward thru the Fog!!

Way to go Austin!!

Hey,would the DU Austinites do me a favor...Say Hi to Barton Springs and the Drag fer me will ya? I really miss the place!

"What is this Arizona of which you speak?"

My nephew will be attending UT-Austin in the Fall.