Opponents of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law huffed and puffed and threatened to use the power of a boycott to put the state out of business.
Back to the drawing board, boys, because your boycott is a flop. Bookings of Arizona hotels across the state are actually up since the controversial law was passed.
Well, that was a waste of a good sheet, wasn't it?
Fox News reports the details:
“Fundamentally, the boycotts have been unsuccessful,” said Barry Broome, president of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
The data from hotel industry research firm STR showed that for the state of Arizona, hotel occupancy was up 5.7 percent in May and up 8.3 percent in June compared with the same time a year ago.
In Phoenix, occupancy was up 10.6 percent in June; in Scottsdale, it was up 10.7 percent for the same period. Revenue also was up, with Arizona hotels raking in $148 million last month — up more than 11 percent from a year ago.
Broome said the state also has been able to attract new businesses to locate in Arizona despite bad publicity. He said his group plans to announce 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs thanks to investment from California, where Arizona boycotts are in place in several major cities, over the next few months.
“Business continues,” said Garrick Taylor, spokesman with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Sadly, it looks like the boycott business has gone belly up.
Source: Fox News
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Yay for Arizona
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It’s a win-win for Arizona. They have all of the people going there intentionally to thwart the boycott and they also have the idiots going there to PROTEST the law.
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liberals suck
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“generally unsuccessful” Pretty much sums up the entire liberal/progressive agenda these days.
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There’s a lovely saguaro cactus or two in AZ I would like to invite the protesters to sit on for free.
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The hispanic community within the United States, legal or not, doesn’t like the United States – that much has become obvious because only one small group of hispanic-Americans has actually stood up for the country.
If they want the US to be like Mexico but with government social services they should all go to Mexico and use the oil and drug money to provide gov’t social services over there.
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I hope the merchants in Arizona make a killing in profits, in spite of these losers who are boycotting the state. There are plenty of people who are so pissed at what Obama and Holder are doing to Gov. Brewer and the citizens of AZ, that they are changing vacation plans from other destinations to Arizona.
I salute Jan Brewer for not backing down. She’s a great Governor and a woman of courage and conviction.
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Gee, imagine if they were American citizens, they would have to get a permit to protest, travel with a valid drivers license, get permission from the boss to take a day off, register with the government as a 503 (c), and be locked up if they committed civil disobedience – but being illegal, the government couldn’t hold them too long to verify citizenship because a civil rights violation.
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That is because even if it is not true right now, the law makes the appareance that the state is SAFER than other border states and that less illegal immigration might mean less corrupt unions and less gang activity and so on and so forth. When there is an appearance of safety and business friendly attitudes in a place people gravitate there. Once the law happens and it is heavily enforced I think that overall we should see those numbers of criminality truly go down and with it a great deal of corruption that will attract EVEN more people that were probably waiting and seeing.
I am sure a lot of people that go there now more than they did before or for the first time even are Patriots who want to do a little bit of something for support which is good for them. I just laugh when things go backwards for the libtards.
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“Its” going to happen..
And “it” frightens me.
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Given that a fair amount of Arizona territory is desert, I would say that this song sums up the Libs boycott plan:
Another one bites the dust!
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Re the lady holding the banner …. where is ARIZONO?
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Not on the Mexican border, that’s for sure!
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Please support Arizona , the Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen . The citizens of Arizona were some of the nicest people I have ever met .
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I want to know who is the idiot that gave you a thumbs down…
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Maybe soneone who got mugged by an illegal in Arizona?
Or a dazed LibTroll who wandered in by mistake?
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That lady looks an AREA 51 illegal alien!
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Nobody with a brain believes this propaganda. Arizona’s toursim industry has already admitted that they have lost 90 million so far, and that conventions for 2011 and 2012 are not booking in Arizona. FOX lies. Everybody knows that.
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For the sake of argument, lets say tourism is down in Arizona. Now consider the possibility that it has nothing to do with the silly little boycott, but rather because normal people are afraid to go into the middle of roving gangs of crazed Libtard & Illegal Alien protesters… People who would not be afraid if the State was allowed to enforce their Law and the Fed would develop a backbone, adhere to the Constitution, and back up the State.
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or it may be due to the economy
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