Posted on 05/20/2010 9:29:53 AM PDT by TADSLOS
Last week, the city council of Austin, Texas passed a resolution to boycott Arizona over its new immigration-enforcement law. For those who don’t know much about Texas politics, Austin is as liberal as the rest of the state is conservative. However, in an embarrassing display of just how marginalized the Austin liberals have become, the local newspaper has run 20 letters from readers regarding the council’s boycott — all of them opposed to it.
While the Austin city council has likely not read the bill — and neither has the White House — Barack Obama’s political organizing group has decided to take action to defend Austin’s boycott. Will they actually read the bill? Are they scheduling protests? Not exactly. In an e-mail from Organizing for America that went out last night (and provided to us by a reader), OfA announces an Astroturf campaign to flood the newspaper with letters supporting the boycott:
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I am SO ASHAMED that Austin is in Texas!!
Thousands of Texans are now boycotting Austin. This will cost the city money it cannot afford to lose.
I am surprised the paper would run the letters, are you sure that wasn't just online?
Isn’t astroturf full of nuts and flakes? It might be the name of the next popular boxed cereal product!
Haven’t checked, but you are probably correct.
This is astonishing; an offcial Obama organization is calling for an economic boycot of a state. In effect the Obama administration tself is calling for economic warfare against US citizens.
Treason.
Ping.
The Un-American Statesman ran 20 letters AGAINST it?
I am shocked.
Organizing for America. Acorn Redux. Just a papered over version of the old corrupt Obama vote machine. Litt was the director of Acorn in Austin.
It really was in the paper yesterday! We couldn’t believe it!
You looked??
Did somebody hire a temp in the mail room?
Someone probably got fired. lol.
The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio did the same thing. They will lose a lot of tax dollars from those of us who used to spend money there.
It depends on what the meaning of “in” in. I mean is.
I recommend the rest of Texas boycott Austin!
How do you think I feel about Cambridge and Northampton, MA?
I live in Round Rock and work in Austin.
I will not spend a penny in Austin until the stupidity ends. I know of quite a few others who are doing the same.
I live in Lago on Lake Travis and work in Austin as well. I’m with BJ, no money spent in Austin until the Austin Silly Council suspends this boycott.
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