lets launch a tourism boycott of Florida and Texas

[pstokely]

ever thought about it?

[Name removed]

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[liberalnurse]

2. Whoo 2 deletes with my coffee......

I guess the mods are up to watch the Sunday talk shows.....

Good morning! :hi:

[SoCalDem]

3. Here's the problem with boycotts

Lots of people who work in tourism are NOT the ones who are "causing problems".. The cab drivers, the tour guides, the hotel maid, the waitresses, are the ones who get hurt first and hardest in a boycott..

It's better to selectively shop, and then LET THEM KNOW WHY you chose them as opposed to ..x...

[Kamika]

4. Why?

You have no argument or anything, sounds ilke you just try to stir things up as normal

[fishnfla]

24. I think he supports terrorism

9/11 devestated our local economy, he's just trying to make it permanent.

[Kamika]

31. hehe ok

I think you just might be right ;)

[FlaGranny]

5. No.

x

[fishnfla]

6. My working class family

thanks you for your kind thoughtfulness. As a small businessman, I personally thank you for trying to put me out of business. Thank you pstokely. Oh BTW, where do you live?

I have a feeling the southeners are dropping from this forum left and right, thanks mods for this unending stream of hatred towards us.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Um

I don't think this is a "south bashing" thread, I assume the poster's original point is that Florida and Texas are Bush country, and that a boycott would in some way effect change on some scale in relation to the Bush family. While I don't agree with him/her, I think you've got it wrong on this one.

[fishnfla]

10. I see it the way I see

another attack on where other Dems live, this one is unique because it threatens me financially. The deanie-boppers who dominate this forum are intimidated by a strong Southern candidate ( can you say Clark?). They fear their flash-in-the-pan candidate will be relegated to an historical oddity, therefore we are seeing an outright attack on all things South of the border.

[Atlant]

18. Let's make this clear...

> I have a feeling the southeners are dropping from this forum left
> and right, thanks mods for this unending stream of hatred towards us.

I don't hate you.

I just believe that it is urgently important that we re-take
our country, and I will use any legal means necessary. I'm
sorry if my boycott of Florida is hurting you, but somewhere
along the line, you chose to live among thieves and scoundrels
(i.e., Florida Republicans). If you would like to propose an
alternative method of defeating the scoundrels (by, say,
voting Jeb Bush out of office), I'm all ears.

Until then, the scoundrels (and, unfortunately, you) will
have to live without my funding them (you).

Atlant

[fishnfla]

20. You do realize that Conservatives boycott FL as well

the Falwell types, because of Disney's gay-friendly policies. Your boycott will certainly help them.

If thats whom you wish to support, while hurting working folks, knock yourself out.

[Atlant]

27. Good. The faster you folks revolt, the better.

> You do realize that Conservatives boycott FL as well the Falwell
> types, because of Disney's gay-friendly policies.

Good. The faster you folks revolt and change things down there, the
better. If they're helping to incite a revolution, then that's okay
by me.

Floridians could always quit living off of tourism and instead,
actually manufacture something, or providing some non--tourism-
related service. Then tourist boycotts wouldn't have so much
effect.

Atlant

[Mari333]

7. Thats not hard

I already avoid them.

[fishnfla]

11. *sigh* where are you from?

another open-minded liberal heard from!

[Mari333]

26. I just dont like hot weather and I dont travel anymore

I also avoid California, because of their draconian smoking laws.
I prefer visiting overseas or Canada now.

[Name removed]

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[ldf]

15. agreed. I already avoid anything from fla or tx.

and before you jump down my throat, up until a few years ago i lived my entire life in north florida, which is still the true south.

i have close and very dear friends still there. they are as upset and disgusted by the situation as anyone.

a lot of those "working class" folks, and those "small business" folks are the ones that are helping to keep jeb, and his pos brother, in office.

bottom line, money talks, and not a penny of mine (if i can at all control it) will go to florida or texas.

[fishnfla]

22. bottom line

my business is fully integrated, many single moms, 9/11 killed our local economy and hurt our business (everything here is tourism based)

you want to finish what the terrorists started, go right ahead.

[MiltonLeBerle]

8. I launched mine over 2 years ago.

[fishnfla]

12. wheres your home? what do you do for a living?

who else do you hate?

[Kamika]

13. Just give up dude

Nothing will change them

[Atlant]

14. I launched mine in November of 2000.

I wouldn't consider spending dime one in Florida while they
elect people like Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris.

And I never would have considered spending my leisure dollars
traveling to Texas, although I am occasionally forced to spend
my business travel dolars going there. In that case, it's not
so much a deliberate boycott as "I just can't see the attraction".

Atlant

[Catt03]

16. I live in Florida

and agree that both states, Texas and Florida, are running on the same conservative formulas.

South Florida, where I live, can be described as the "northernmost of the banana republics." North Florida is really south Georgia.

Personally....I think...the state's a mess!

[wellstone_democrat]

17. For a change, how about reasons rather than provocation?

Your posts---and you breed them like ferrets some days---tend to throw a provocative thesis out and then you appear to stand back and watch the combatants go at it!

What purposed does this serve other than to amuse you?

I live in Texas, although I am that dreaded species from one of the "southern" threads: the New Englander! I'm curious: why do you want to boycott us? What in particular have we in Texas or Florida done that we should suffer economically? Boycotts, as the Revolutionaries first taught us, have their place as a method of coercion or even (some might say) of warfare. Explain, if you would be so very kind, why you wish to put myself and my neighbors out of work. What ends do you hope to achieve? Is it perhaps only for sport? Does you desire grow out of a generalized dislike of the states in question? Do you wish to punish us for some past or present sin?

Really, enlighten us, I'd really LOVE to know what we have done to disturb you or injure you to the degree where you feel the need to retaliate in the economic sphere.

[Atlant]

19. You don't feel that "giving" us George W. Bush was enough?

> Really, enlighten us, I'd really LOVE to know what we have done to
> disturb you or injure you to the degree where you feel the need
> to retaliate in the economic sphere.

You don't feel that "giving" us George W. Bush was enough? :-) / 2

Atlant

[mrbill]

23. chimpy is the ultimate carpetbagger

he was born in new haven.

[Atlant]

28. Yes, but somebody in Texas elected him over Ann Richards.

Texans threw out Ann Richards, a dedicated Democrat, in favor
of the chimp.

Atlant

[mrbill]

33. ann rolled over on that one

She fell into a trap. She didn't run as Ann Richards, popular governor, she ran as tougher on everything than chimpy. The crime and prison issue was big.

A new breed of republican operative also showed up around that time.

[Lone Texan]

38. I like the way

you say that "you" gave us the chimp, as if the people on this board are singlehandedly responsible for electing the chimp and kicking out Ann Richards. Where are you from anyway? I bet I could find a piece of shit politician from any state.

[wellstone_democrat]

25. the Supreme Court did that

whether he was born, (largely) raised and educated in NE or was
elected to state office in Texas
is not critical to how "we" got him as president*---sure, privilege and the aura of "electability" through his previous office put him in position but...the "giving" was done by the Supreme Court of the United States in their own little personal corrupt bargain of 2000.

If you want to boycott Texas for that (and I am guessing Florida over Jeb?) then you lost the momentum---you should have started that over 2 years ago. For that matter, if you want to punish the citizens of states that helped put this creature in a position to benefit from the criminals currently sitting on the court, then be both logical and a champion of your own convictions: boycott all the states that went Republican in the 2000 Presidential Election.

The premise of the entire thread is ridiculous and childish.

[Atlant]

29. Hmmm... What an interesting idea!

> boycott all the states that went Republican in the 2000 Presidential Election.

Hmmm... What an interesting idea!

I actually think I DO already do that, but I'd have to check.
Well, not true. I tend to stay in Arlington, VA when I'm protesting
in Washington, DC.

Atlant

[wellstone_democrat]

35. Remember to boycott NH then too!

And, as someone who last voted (2000) for president in NH, my memory is that NH went for Bush*! Therefore, NH is deeply implicated in the gift to America that the SC ultimately "gave" us.

Guess you can't go home again if you are boycotting, eh?

I'll call my mom up in Strafford County and tell her that all good Democrats should boycott the state. So she starves to death. Small price to pay to send a message! /sarcasm

[Lone Texan]

37. Excuse me...

He's from the northeast in case you didn't know.

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. You don't feel that "giving" us George W. Bush was enough? :-) /2

I think that Connecticut gave us Shrub and I wouldn't think of boycotting that state. Also, why lump all us Texans together? Some of us voted for the guy that actually won. But go ahead and boycott our state if it makes you feel better. I for one am going to Tampa at the end of the week on vacation and visited the Fla Keys last year on vacation. I love Fla and don't blame the all Floridians for the mess caused by their slime-ball Gov in 2000.

[KG]

21. let's not.

i live in FL and it took me 6 months to find the job i just got. so how about you stop posting this BS once a week, okay?

[Fla_Democrat]

30. no,

I have never thought of boycotting Florida. :eyes:

[ILeft]

32. I used to love FL, but it has been tainted by the BFEE.

I used to love the Keys and the Gulf coast, actually most of the state, but since 2000 even the thought of taking my family there makes me physically ill. I don't want to "boycott" FL or TX, but I can't and won't go somewhere with so much bad Karma.

...I guess I better visit CA before they get that one, too.

[Patriot_Spear]

36. I already paid my Disney money...

The wife and kids would execute me- sorry.

[Proletariat]

39. Let's not and say we did

:)