Thread: Columbus, Ohio, mayor bans city travel to Arizona

Columbus, Ohio, mayor bans city travel to Arizona

May. 19, 2010 10:47 AM
Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The mayor of Columbus will no longer allow workers to travel to Arizona on city business in response to the state's new law targeting illegal immigration.

Spokesman Dan Williamson said Wednesday that Mayor Michael Coleman will not approve any travel to Arizona because he "agrees with those who want to send a message ... that this is not the American way."

Williamson says the order was issued at a recent meeting with city department heads.

The new Arizona law requires police enforcing another law to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally.

Several other cities have passed resolutions or urged boycotts to protest the law, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, and Austin, Texas.


http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... izona.html

I have a majority of my family in Ohio..... I'll never step foot in your broke city again and FORBID my children to do the same

Coleman bans city-funded travel to Arizona
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:42 AM
By Robert Vitale
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman has banned city-worker travel to Arizona because of that state's new law allowing police to demand documentation from people they suspect are in the country illegally.

"The mayor will not be approving any travel to Arizona," spokesman Dan Williamson said this morning.

"He agrees with those who want to send a message to the state of Arizona that this is not the American way."

Already, he has rejected a request from the city's technology director to attend a seminar in Phoenix, Williamson said.

The order was issued in a recent meeting with city department heads.

The Arizona law says local officers should, when practical after a stop, detention or arrest related to other laws, seek proof of a person's immigration status if they suspect that the "person is an alien and unlawfully present in the United States."

Some of that wording was added to "make it crystal clear and undeniable that racial profiling is illegal and will not be tolerated in Arizona," according to a statement that Gov. Jan Brewer released when she signed the revision.

As Columbus joins a growing number of U.S. cities protesting the Arizona law, Williamson said the mayor has no plans to propose that the city stop doing business entirely with companies based there.

Seattle took that step on Monday.

In Columbus, contracts will be decided on a case-by-case basis, Williamson said.

Columbus recently extended its agreement with Phoenix-based Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., which owns and operates the city's 20 red-light cameras. The new contract will double the number of cameras posted at Columbus intersections to issue tickets to red-light-runners.

Rescinding that program "wouldn't make sense to the taxpayers," Williamson said.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/lo ... ml?sid=101

When in Ohio I have a choice where I spend my money. Guess where it will not be spent?

I love easy targets.

There are 1,350 post to the C. Dispatch article and they are angry with Mayor Coleman and say they will vote him out ASAP.
Many poster say they now will make a point to vacation in AZ this summer and Boycott Columbus.

Who's next... step right up and watch how P.O. America really is

EVERY Business in your Broke A@@ city will now be BOYCOTTED BY ME AND MY FAMILY

We are Not ALONE

WE WILL DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER to make your city and Businesses as BROKE as you are

UNTIL YOU ARE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE and a SAIN AMERICAN REPLACES YOU

COLUMBUS ~ GET BUSY ~ RECALL THESE MAGGOTS or you pay the cost for they're actions

Let's turn the tables on this moron. Let these ompanies based in Columbus know how you feel about this.

Abercrombie & Fitch
Bath & Body Works
Big Lots
Borden Food Corporation
Drug Emporium
Limited Brands
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Victoria's Secret
Wendy's
JP Morgan/Chase bank
Nationwide Insurance
Huntington Bank
Owens Corning
Keep in mind - Limited brands includes (in addition to Victoria's secret and Bath and Body works):
PINK
Henri Bendel
La Senza
White Barn Candle Co.
C.O.Bigelow

BOYCOTT ANY AND ALL OF THE ABOVE COMPANYS TO SUPPORT ARIZONA UNTILL COLEMAN IS RECALLED

Columbus Ohio Chamber of Commerce

http://www.columbus.org/


Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman

Looks like another idiot to me

I live in Columbus. Colelman is a b... tt kisser.

Believe me, there are many here who do not share his views and are tickled pink over the Arizona law. I believe he is just shooting himself in the foot (least I hope so) for when the next election comes around.

Seems Ohio Legislatures do not agree with this idiot either..

Ohio (2010) Session

As Passed by the Senate

128th General Assembly
Regular Session
2009-2010

Am. S. B. No. 35

Senator Stewart

Cosponsors: Senators Seitz, Cates, Faber, Gibbs, Harris, Niehaus, Patton, Schaffer, Schuring

A BILL

To enact section 109.45 of the Revised Code to direct the Attorney General to pursue a memorandum of agreement that permits the enforcement of federal immigration laws in this state by law enforcement officers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 109.45 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 109.45. (A) The attorney general shall pursue a memorandum of agreement under the federal "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 3009, 8 U.S.C. 1357(g), between the state of Ohio and the United States attorney general or the appropriate federal agency the United States attorney general designates, to permit the enforcement in this state of federal immigration laws, both criminal and civil, including the apprehension, detention, and investigation of illegal aliens located in this state.

(B) Any memorandum of agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be signed on behalf of this state by the Ohio attorney general or as the memorandum otherwise requires.

(C)(1) The attorney general shall designate appropriate law enforcement officers to be trained in the enforcement of the relevant federal immigration laws as the memorandum of agreement specifies. Any law enforcement officer the attorney general designates to receive training shall be trained as the memorandum specifies.

(2) A law enforcement officer who is certified as trained in accordance with the memorandum of agreement shall enforce the federal immigration laws the memorandum specifies while performing within the scope of that law enforcement officer's authorized duties.

(3) No law enforcement officer shall enforce the federal immigration laws specified in the memorandum of agreement unless that law enforcement officer has received the training this section requires.

(D) The participation of any local law enforcement agency in a memorandum of agreement entered into by the attorney general is permissive. Ohio Senate votes to toughen immigration law enforcement

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