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Letter to the National Republican
Committee Requesting the GOP Honor Boycott Arizona by not Selecting
Phoenix for their 2012 National Convention
Chairman Michael Steele
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
April 27, 2010
Dear Chairman Steele:
 Regarding
the GOP site selection committee visit to Phoenix for the 2012
Republican convention: After your 24-hour tour of the city, thank you
for your statement you were impressed with the regions growth,
amenities and cleanliness positioning Phoenix for a run at its first
presidential convention.
You further stated the Phoenix delegation brought its A game and did a
wonderful job of laying out venues, the transportation system and
hospitality features, as it tries to shed its Wild West image;
unfortunately, our Wild West image is still with us and in fact, the
cloak hiding Jim Crow has been lifted and thus exposed w hen
Governor Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070
on
April 23, 2010.
Arizona needs to attract visitors,
conventions and new businesses to grow
our economy; unfortunately, the approved
law, Senate Bill 1070, considered the
toughest state immigration measure in
the United States because it now makes
being in Arizona illegally a state
crime, will lead to acts of civil
disobedience and adverse economic
consequences for Arizona's economy.
During the time of Jim Crow in the
South, the majority of the white, voting
population rabidly supported
segregation. Only the intervention of
the federal government, economic
boycotts against businesses that
discriminated, and a prolonged Civil
Rights Movement finally prevailed over
the great mass of whites who wanted the
color line to remain intact.
Nearly identical to Jim Crow was
apartheid used in South Africa.
Hispanic News believes Arizona has
become the new apartheid for America
brought about by overt hatred of
Hispanics.
The Hispanic News letter to Gov.
Brewer, dated April 19, 2010, stated if
SB 1070 was approved, Hispanic News would
proceed to implement a national boycott
of Arizona.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) providing
sage advise said, Our economic sanction
is: Do not do business with a state that
is propagating the idea separate but
equal treatment under the law can be
codified.
"Conventions are a large source of
visitors and revenue, and targeting them
is the most effective way to make this
point before its too late. Just as
professional athletes refused to
recognize Arizona until it recognized
Martin Luther King Jr., we are calling
on convention planners, organizations
and companies not to schedule
conventions and conferences in Arizona
until it recognizes civil rights and the
meaning of due process. We dont want to
sustain this effort any longer than
necessary. Its about sending a
message.
"We're asking organizations," he told
Olbermann, "civic, religious, labor,
Latino, organizations of color to
refrain from using Arizona as a
convention site, to refrain from
spending their dollars in the state of
Arizona until Arizona turns the clock
forward instead of backwards and joins
the rest of the union. Indeed, Arizona
needs to be quarantined from the rest of
the nation, isolated and sanctioned
until there's a regime change, much like
South Africa under apartheid was in the
1980s."
A new movement now begins to spread the
message across America of anyone who visits
or considers Arizona to expand or start
a new business, condones Arizona
becoming a police state.
The purpose of this letter is to
officially strongly recommend the Republican National Committee
reject
bringing the 2012 national Republican
convention to Phoenix. If the GOP
national convention comes to Arizona, it
will send a message the GOP condones
Arizona becoming a hate state toward
Hispanics.
We will not single out Republicans but
any Democrat or Republican event in
Arizona will not be welcomed. In
addition, we strongly recommend
tourism and conventions programs funded
by Arizona cities be brought to a halt.
Tomorrow, a letter will be sent to the
Phoenix city manager notifying him
Boycott Arizona will target all
conventions using the Phoenix Convention
Center.
Our strong recommendation to the city
manager is he now has a responsibility
to notify all convention planners
considering Phoenix to be apprised of
possible protests and a picket line at the
Phoenix Convention Center.
In addition, an advertising blitz
sponsored by Hispanic News will be part
of a national campaign to apprise all
tourism agencies and travel agents to
make their clients aware Arizona is now
a Police State.
In tandem with other pro-Immigration
Reform groups, we will make crystal
clear without federal Comprehensive
Immigration Reform in 2010, we will sit
out the 2010 and 2012 elections unless
Immigration Reform becomes the law of
the land prior to the next presidential
election.
Lastly, no one wants a repeat of the
1968 Democratic National Convention of
the U.S. Democratic Party held in
Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to
August 29, 1968.
The convention was held during a year of
violence, political turbulence, and
civil unrest, particularly riots in more
than 100 cities following the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
on April 4. The convention also followed
the assassination of Democratic
presidential hopeful Senator Robert F.
Kennedy, who had been shot on June 5.
Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley,
intended to showcase his and the city's
achievements to national Democrats and
the news media. Instead, the proceedings
became notorious for the large number of
demonstrators and the use of force by
the Chicago police during what was
supposed to be, in the words of the
Yippie activist organizers, A Festival
of Life. Rioting took place between
demonstrators and the Chicago Police
Department, who were assisted by the
Illinois National Guard. The
disturbances were well publicized by the
mass media, with some journalists and
reporters being caught up in the
violence.
With no Immigration Reform prior to the
2012 presidential race, Hispanic News
recommends we sit out the 2010 and 2012
elections.
The 2012 Republican convention in
Phoenix, Arizona, which is ground zero
for apartheid against Hispanics would be
a tinderbox a potential source of
violence
from Hispanics against the Republican
Party which will make Chicago seem like
a prelude to violence in downtown
Phoenix.
The use of Tweeter to spread the message
of hate showered on Arizona Hispanics
will spread across the USA as a fire
spreading across the prairie. Nothing
will be able to stop it.
Hispanic News implores you not to make a
foolish mistake in hosting the 2012
Republican National Convention in
Phoenix.
Juan Gonzales
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