Rick Carraway
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Mayor Coleman's banning of city travel to Arizona has been picked up by the Drudge Report. There are well over 1,000 beautifully-thought out comments (ha) on the Dispatch article already.
Either way, what say you all on the Mayor's move?
Original Dispatch Article - "Coleman bans city-funded travel to Arizona":
cory
Columbus / Upper Arlington
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The law is constitutional. If the Feds did their job and secured our borders, Arizona wouldn't have to make laws at a state level. It's easy for Coleman to say what's best for Arizona when Huh? Columbus is not faced with the same problems as Arizona. Like the attorney general, I bet Coleman hasn't even read the law. I won't be voting for his re-election.
Analogue Kid
5th by West-Northwest
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I 100% approve of Colemans symbolic gesture. It is downright scary that we have a place in the USA where the "wrong kind" of people are told "papers please" as they go about their life. History is repeating itself, and I dont look forward to what happens next.
JackieC
Grandview
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cory wrote >>
The law is constitutional. If the Feds did their job and secured our borders, Arizona wouldn't have to make laws at a state level. It's easy for Coleman to say what's best for Arizona when Huh? Columbus is not faced with the same problems as Arizona. Like the attorney general, I bet Coleman hasn't even read the law. I won't be voting for his re-election.
What makes the Arizona law constitutional? Wouldn't preemption apply wether the Arizona law compliments the Federal law or not?
Core_Models
Columbus
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Bear
The woods
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the volume of official City travel to the state of Arizona was over the past few years?
Just sayin'.
Though I admit, I'm a little annoyed that Arizona didn't bother to threaten to retaliate against us, like they did against L.A. That alone makes me want to consider sterner measures. Maybe a boycott on Arizona Iced Te-- wait, their headquarters is in New York. Maybe we could boycott sand? Or lizards....
Crap.
bman
New Albany
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Rus and others here say (Az law) this is nothing to worry about, I think that is how Hitler was treated. He is no big deal, he just wants Austria, err Poland errr... France errr.... Great Britian errr... Russia.
Kudo's Mayor Coleman for at least taking a stand.
Klablut
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Coleman is joining a number of cities taking a stand. This is a list of cities banning travel and/or business with AZ companies: Seattle, El Paso, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, St. Paul, Boulder, San Diego, Oakland. The list grows daily so I am sure there are others out there. Other cities are on the verge of joining: Berkeley (Cols. beat Berkeley in boycotting? :), Milwaukee, Dallas, DC, NYC, Sacramento. In addition a number of union and other groups are boycotting. Interesting enough, a boycott is credited with AZ finally recognizing MLK day. Tucson and Flagstaff AZ are suing the state over this law.
Aaron Marshall
South Side Wrecking Crew
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cory wrote >>
The law is constitutional. If the Feds did their job and secured our borders, Arizona wouldn't have to make laws at a state level. It's easy for Coleman to say what's best for Arizona when Huh? Columbus is not faced with the same problems as Arizona. Like the attorney general, I bet Coleman hasn't even read the law. I won't be voting for his re-election.
Whether you agree with this Arizona law or not, it obviously is a violation of the 14th Amendment. That's the one that includes the equal protection clause, you know "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Put another way, you can't pass laws that apply only to certain segments of the population. Such as, you know, laws that target people who look like illegal immigrants.
gramarye
In Exile
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The more interesting question to me is whether the boycotts are constitutional under the "dormant Commerce Clause" doctrine. But that's neither here nor there.
I oppose Coleman's move, but I don't think it amounts to all that much in the grander scheme of things. Though of course a lot of Dispatch commenters seem to.
dsigner
Worthington
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Not sure why we needed to take a stand... is there a lot of official Columbus to AZ travel? Overall, I admit the border / immigration issue has been neglected by the Federal Government, but I think the recent AZ law is a bit misguided. Why leave it up to the suspicion of the police? Why not just make it mandatory to check immigration status upon any crime, ticket, etc. Already AZ has a law that when hiring ANY employee they do such a check. Just take the subjectivity out of it.
roy
Downtown
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Rick Carraway wrote >>
Mayor Coleman's banning of city travel to Arizona has been picked up by the Drudge Report.
The story's linked on Drudge below the fold, seventh down with the header "Ohio city bans worker travel to AZ" making this thread title a bit hyperbolic.
What I want to know is why Coleman's IT director wanted to visit AZ for a "computer conference" in the first place.
Rick Carraway
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That's strange, Roy. Earlier it said, "Mayor Coleman: Take a step back and literally FUCK YOUR FACE!"
Sorry, Les Grossman flashback.
Don't think the headline is hyperbolic: A headline on Drudge is being targeted by Drudge. He puts up link so to send his army of internet assailers out into the interwebs to gobble up message boards...as has happened at the Dispatch. It's a chorus of, "Mayor Coleman. Read the bill!"
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Don't know if it was necessary or not for Mayor Coleman to stand up against injustice, but I sure am glad that he did. It's a symbolic gesture, not a substantive one. But it was the right thing to do. Our political leaders should more often be so bold.
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