LA Times Poll on Arizona
[Guest post by DRJ]
The L.A. Times is asking readers whether the City Council was right to vote for a boycott of Arizona. Here is the poll question and 4 choices:
Was the L.A. City Council right to pass a boycott of Arizona?
Yes. Arizona needs to feel the consequences of enacting a bad law. Yes, though the boycott should be more of a symbolic gesture than an official measure. No, but only because doing so is probably illegal and not in L.A.’s interest. No. The city should mind its own business.
Read the article and Vote. Currently, 91% of the respondents told LA to mind its own business.
— DRJ
John & Ken mentioned this on their show, and encouraged their listeners to vote. I’m guessing the vast majority of those voting came from J&K, and the vast majority rejected the LA City Council’s grandstanding.
The vote says volumes, about how many people think the LA City Council’s action is idiotic, and how many more people listen to J&K compared to those who read the LA Times.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641) — 5/14/2010 @ 9:50 pmWhen I arrived at the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1976, the student govt. was filled with people more interested in national and international political issues than the affairs of the campus. Within a year or two the campus had enough of the echoes of the anti-war years, and two fun loving guys ran for student president and vice-president under the banner of the “Pail and Shovel” party, promising to make the Toga Party in “Animal House” look tame, and also to fly in the Statue of Liberty and reposition it on a peninsula opposite the campus and Memorial Union on Lake Mendota.(See link below). The candidate for president, who hailed from New Jersey, was asked why he came all of the way to Wisconsin to go to college. His answer, “Because I could smell the beer”.
The moral to the story is that if a government makes itself more and more detached from the people they govern, the people will prefer a joke as government instead of the government being a joke.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Lady_Liberty_on_Lake_Mendota/
MD in Philly (ea3785) — 5/14/2010 @ 10:15 pmAre these “boycotts” not a violation of the Commerce Clause? A “restraint of trade”?
Charles Harkins (59a8f9) — 5/15/2010 @ 6:24 amNo, they are not. Whose trade are they restraining? Anyone who wants to do business with AZ is free to do so; but LA is equally entitled to do business with whomever it wants, and right now that’s “anybody but AZ”. Freedom works both ways.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 5/17/2010 @ 5:50 am