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Portland, Ore. (AP) -- The city of Portland, Oregons plan to boycott Texas goods and services over its new abortion law could cost Texas companies millions of dollars a year, officials said Tuesday.
Heather Hafer, a spokeswoman with the Office of Management and Finance, said Portland has inked almost $35 million in contracts with Texas-based businesses over the last five years, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
She also said Portland employees have made 19 separate trips to the Lonestar State on official business since 2019, a number she said would have been significantly higher if travel hadn't been stopped for a year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The potential financial impact information comes after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Twitter Monday called Portland boycotting Texas a complete joke. ..........(more)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-08/planned-ban-over-abortion-law-could-cost-texas-7m-a-year
multigraincracker
(32,527 posts)laughing at the joke?
maxrandb
(15,188 posts)Remember how all those companies in Georgia successfully stopped the GA white supremacist voting bill?
Yeah, neither do I.
This stuff doesn't work, unless it's relentless and unyielding.
If only we cared as much, and were as committed to saving our Constitutional Government and way of life, as the right is about masks at an elementary school.
Oh well, what's on TV tonight?
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Published reports indicate that Samsung is planning on building a massive microchip plant in Texas---$17 Billion, 1000 acres, 1800 jobs. It's supposedly down to either Austin or Taylor.
Contact Samsung and demand that they locate this investment in a state other than Texas. Portland OR might be a good place. (Fuck you, Dan Patrick).
catrose
(5,047 posts)LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)And the entire state of California is still boycotting over LGBT policies since 2017 and it hasn't made a dent
But if the move by the Golden State was meant to curb Texas appetite for anti-LGBTQ legislation, it has not had the intended effect.
The Texas Senate passed the bill on transgender athletes shortly after the NCAA announced that they would only hold national championships in states where transgender student-athletes are allowed to participate.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/26/texas-california-travel-ban-lawsuit/
California is also boycotting other states including Florida: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/06/28/california-bans-state-funded-travel-to-florida-4-other-red-states-1387264
I really don't think these government boycotts work. We need large corporate boycotts.
ashredux
(2,593 posts)LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)millions of Americans who'll have their own personal boycotts against anything "Texas", of which I'm one.
Not one penny of mine will be spent on anything produced in Texas, or any business done with any company hailing from Texas.
My new motto: FUCK TEXAS!
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Red tourists will not, but there are WAYYYY more sane Blue staters out there. Despite what the Corporate Media says - we out number them big time.
Fly your Texas based family to you if you must see them.
Teleconference for work needs if your company MUST do business there.
Go to California, or NY or smaller Blue States who support progressive ideals.
Go to Georgia and do a Civil Rights Historical vacation. Spend your $$ with Minority/Woman owned businesses.
Just stay the FUCK out of Taliban Texas until the Blue Cavalry comes to the rescue in 2022.
In fact, take that vacay money and donate some to grassroots Progressive Efforts to turn Texas sane and Blue again.
momta
(4,076 posts)This was part of the tweet in Dan Patrick's response to Portland.
You mean the babies you're letting die of Covid? And the police you murder when they try to stop you from overthrowing the federal government?
Asshole.