Thread: Boulder City Manager goes crazy - action required!

As you are undoubtedly aware, Arizona recently passed an immigration sanity bill that reinforces Federal law. Here is a fact sheet on the bill from the Center for Immigration Studies. Here are a few quick facts from NumbersUSA.com - the bill:

allows police officers to ask for proof of residency if they suspect an individual is in the country illegally,
allows illegal aliens to be jailed and fined up to $2500,
bans "soft" immigration policies at local police agencies that prevent officers from asking about a suspect's immigration status,
allows Arizonans to sue if they feel a government agency has adopted a policy that hinders the enforcement of illegal immigration laws,
prohibits people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day-labor services on street corners,
and makes it illegal for people to transport illegal aliens if the drivers of vehicles know their passengers are in the country illegally and if the transportation furthers their illegal presence in the country.
Now for the fun stuff!

Boulder, Colorado has one of the highest per-capita populations of PhD's of any city in the country. Yet informed common sense seems to be notably lacking in City Hall. Boulder is suspending official travel to Arizona! - see this article.

City Manager Jane Brautigam on Wednesday morning sent a memo to all department directors ordering them to cancel any plans to travel to Arizona for conferences or other city business, even if the tickets have been paid for.
"This action is being taken to demonstrate our opposition to Arizona's new public policy, embodied in recent legislation, to require documentation for all persons who may be suspected of being in that state without official status or approval," Brautigam wrote. "Such a policy is contrary to our organization's commitment to diversity and is a violation of our core values."

It seems that poor manager Brautigam is unaware that Federal law has required legal immigrants to carry proof of residency since the 1940s. As if she had a right to try to tell Arizona how to deal with the illegal immigration invasion. No wonder the locals call it "the People's Republic of Boulder".

Contact City Manager Jane Brautigam brautigamj@bouldercolorado.gov to let her how you feel about her inappropriate meddling in Arizona's affairs. Copy the City Council members:

Mayor: Susan Osborne osbornes@bouldercolorado.gov
Deputy Mayor: Ken Wilson wilsonk@bouldercolorado.gov

Council members:
Suzy Ageton agetons@bouldercolorado.gov
Matt Appelbaum appelbaumm@bouldercolorado.gov
KC Becker beckerk@bouldercolorado.gov
Macon Cowles cowlesm@bouldercolorado.gov
Crystal Gray grayc@bouldercolorado.gov
George Karakehian karakehiang@bouldercolorado.gov
Lisa Morzel morzell@bouldercolorado.gov

Address and phone:
Municipal Building
1777 Broadway
2nd Floor
Boulder, CO 80306
303-441-3090


Sincerely,


Fred Elbel
Spokesperson,
Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform
www.CAIRCO.org

As I see it, the best part of the bill is allowing the average Arizona citizen to sue any agency who they think is derelict in their duties regarding immigration. It gives the citizens power, and keeps those agencies on their toes.

done

I doubt that too many trips to Arizona have been planned, canceled or paid for. This is just one crazy person (City Manager Jane Brautigam) posturing and getting media attention. Little Napoleonic don't you think?

Dixie

Grand Junction Sentinel, Gran Junction Colorado, 14 hours ago

Boulder’s ban on all things Arizona is really just smugnessBy Gary Harmon
Sunday, May 9, 2010

You’ll know the city of Boulder is really, really serious about illegal immigration when it puts up a fence and starts screening to keep out the Arizona types.

It was Boulder that last week in an eminently predictable move decided to boycott Arizona.

No surprise there, the fast-thinking Boulderites were second in line, following on the heels of the Denver Public Schools, which was the first to ban employees from taking work-related trips to the Land of Disenchantment.

So, no trips to Arizona for the hard-working employees of the schools in Denver, where it’s not clear that students are taught that Arizona is a state, or that there are states, or even the quaint notion of something once called federalism.

Strangely, Boulder’s Resident Expert on Everything, Ward Churchill, wasn’t quoted immediately after Boulder took its hard line, leaving us to infer that he’s searching for an appropriate response from which to plagiarize.

Odd, is it not, that Boulder and its ilk are always taking symbolic swipes at entities much larger than themselves and thus unlikely to be concerned enough to slap back.

Nice, too, that Boulder goes out on the limb of banning junkets to Arizona just as it’s getting too hot to go anyway.

It’s also convenient that Boulder decided to take on big, mighty Arizona. It’s not at all like inviting gridiron powerhouse Montana State to town because everyone knows that’s just too easy. Oh, wait. Montana State 19, CU, 10. September 2006. Never mind.

If Boulder really wants to make a statement, one that will be heard in Phoenix, let’s see if it goes the other way.

Think any Boulder bartender, up to and including state Rep. Paul Weismann, D-Boulder, is about to stop serving tequila on the faint chance that it might have been imported from Arizona — or worse, fermented from Arizona agave azul?

Anybody in Boulder planning to give up Arizona Iced Tea this summer? Anyone at all?

How ‘bout mesquite? No more mesquite-smoked barbecue for Boulder. Even if it’s tofu.

The University of Phoenix would be booted out of Boulder. No correspondence courses for Boulderites. No online classes for Flatirons fans. And that would have the added benefit of eliminating CU’s risk of enduring the occasionally less-than-flattering comparison to the upstart educational invention.

And no more University of Colorado students from Arizona. Even if they pay the full out-of-state tuition. Let Arizona keeps its filthy money.

Here’s a thought. If Boulder really wanted to make a point, the city and university could refuse to accept any water from the Colorado River to make up for the water evil Arizona takes from the river.

Better to let that water flow down to the border with Mexico rather than over the Rockies to Boulder’s faucets.

What price purity, Boulder? Will you give up swigging from the Big Thompson Project? Will you stop sucking the Rockies’ sweetest water off the high side of the West Slope?

What’s that Boulder? You need to flush? Flush what?

Ever heard of punching holes in the ground and sticking a wooden box with a funny half-moon symbol on the front?

Just call it compost and Boulder will be fine with it. Plus, it’s organic!

Boulder, of course, won’t make any real sacrifices for political correctness. Cut down to the real meaning of Boulder and it’s just bluster.

Boulder is as likely to do anything real for Mexico and Mexicans as Aspen is likely to ban turquoise, ski flights from Phoenix or cougars from the bar scene.

The city’s ban? So much BS — Boulder Smugness.


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