American Airlines CEO urges Arizona governor to veto anti-gay law
Source: Bloomberg News
The top executive at Fort Worth-based American Airlines Group is urging Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service on religious grounds, a measure that opponents say is meant to allow discrimination against gays.
The measure passed last week prompted tourists to cancel reservations and companies to say they would locate elsewhere if it became law. The bill threatens to reverse an economic recovery in a state among those hardest hit by the housing crash, opponents said, and to cement a reputation fostered by a 2010 anti-immigration law and a fight in the 1990s over celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday.
There is genuine concern throughout the business community that this bill, if signed into law, would jeopardize all that has been accomplished so far, Doug Parker, Americans CEO, wrote in a letter to Brewer on Monday. He said that it has the potential to reduce the desire of companies to relocate in the state and to repel convention business.
Our economy thrives best when the doors of commerce are open to all, he wrote.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/02/25/5600122/american-airlines-ceo-urges-arizona.html
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)what your irrational hatreds and bigotries compel you to do and what your one true god,(money), implores you to, when they're at odds.
Does she royally PO the lunatics whose votes she needs or the $ crowd.
riversedge
(70,414 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)All he has to do is promise to move the 2015 Superbowl out of Arizona if she signs the bill into law.
Arizona lost a Superbowl already over not enacting the MLK Holiday in the 90s.