I have a business trip I must make to Austin in July.  I will spend money on food & lodging only while I'm there and will be carrying some cards with me that read: I'm from Arizona.  Contact the Austin City Council for your tip.

That would be great to see peoples reaction.

I like it!

The text of an email I sent today to Austin's mayor:

Tip card image to follow.

And here's the tip card:

Feel free to copy it if you're so inclined.

Just got back from Tucson and I spent a load of money!

Thanks for your patronage, BONEHEADdb.

I'm headed to AZ tomorrow and will spend lots of my company's money in the Phoenix area.  Will also spend some money down in Tucson as well.   And I PROMISE I will be an equal opportunity spender not basing my spending on racial profiling or asking if the employee is here legaly (lol).

I regularly visit Yuma when visiting relatives, and will make a point of stopping and shopping in the future!

Well, I guess I was sort of correct. 

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California has much too lose from tourism.

Now Mickey Ds is saying they are going to stop funding the soup kitchen.

Yea, notice how the hotel operators are saying "it's not us!  Don't hurt us!".  It is you idiots!  You elected the illiterate jerks who passed the resolution.  Your solution is easy.  Kick their asses out of office!  reverse the resolution, and I am sure Arizonans will visit you again.

I may have to fly into SD, but I do not have to spend a dime while I am there, nor will I.

There is a surfeit of sanctimonious idiocy these days.

Now that 'random citizenship checks' have been shown to be a myth, and the weight of public opinion is clearly against them, the race-baiters have adopted a fall-back: now it's all about the passengers - they haven't committed a crime, they shouldn't be required to 'produce papers' - never mind that there are twenty of them in a van, none of them speak English and the driver is a coyote with fake ID.  If you even suspect those passengers might be illegals, if the thought even crosses your mind, you're committing 'racial profiling'.

Three words:  Crock.  Of.  Shit.

My search & rescue team did a real world search today.  I'm sure both the lost person and his family were pretty glad we used his race in our profile of who we were looking for. ;~D

Sharpton and Jackson have now got you on the racists list.

I was thinking along those lines this morning. What is clear is that the race baiters have taken to the sewers to preach their hate, as the only thing racist about the Arizona law is the opposition to it.  So instead of directly confronting it like they did in the early days (before being revealed as illiterates and ignoramuses since they had not read it), they have decided to just trash their country to others around the world (who do not understand the law either since they have not read it).  But that is not surprising, they were trashing this country to the rest of the world for the past 16 months anyway.

Even Gavin Newsome's ex has used the phrase 'random citizenship checks' - on Fox, no less.  Sometimes, irrationality knows no ideology.

Just returned from AZ, and spent lots of money.  

Stayed at a suite and resort in Scottsdale.  Found it interesting that one of the guys I was working with in coordinating plans for our convention there would refuse speaking Spanish to me.  I tried multiple times to speak to him in Spanish when no one was around and he just would not do it.  I'm guessing this has more to do with the hotel rather than anything.  I noticed that two people house keepers were speaking Spanish until I came around the corner and immediately shifted to English.

Just found it interesting.

I had a similar experience last time I was out in AZ.  As soon as the cleaning ladies saw me the english started.   

Makes me rather proud to live in a sanctuary city where these folks can go about their day until the immigration issue resolves itself or blows over-----one way or the other. 

You don't think that was simple courtesy?  The vast majority of hotel staff are legal residents, especially at any major hotel chain.  Many are legal Hispanic immigrants who are hardworking, honest folks.  They don't need 'sanctuary'.

FWIW, when I travel to California, New Mexico or Colorado, such staff hardly ever speak English in my presence.

No idea what their status was.  Can't really say I care either.  Though:  given this bill, I wonder if there isn't something else to it - just wondering if there might be some latent anger that resulted in these folks getting told they can't socialize in spansih. 

Makes no sense.  What evidence supports your 'wondering'?  What's in the bill that would prompt an employer to give such instructions?

More has been written and said about hysterical hypothetical non-effects of this bill than what's actually in it.  By orders of magnitude.

Wow!  I need to have evidence of something to be curious about a weird social phenomena, lest I'd be drawing conclusions about 'hysterical hypthetical non-effects'. 

Something like that sounds pretty hysterical to me. 

The whole situation just struck me as bizarre.  I couldn't figure out why a couple of cleaning ladies decided to switch languages because I came within earshot.  That happening in the otherwise sterile strip mall that is Phoenix got me wondering.  

People who 'wonder' but don't care to 'know'.  Gotta love 'em.

Well FWIW you're not alone - Obama, Holder & Napolitano are right there with ya.

There is a debate in Imperial Valley about this issue.  Imperial Valley is adjacent to AZ, and is noted for having the highest urban unemployment in the nation.  Simple question to these folks - who should get the few jobs available.  Citizens, or illegals?  That question seems to be ignored by the ignorant that have not read the law.

And Daiwa, add Rep Kennedy to  your list.  He has not read it either and apparently can't read it.