Hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line for Arizona as a result of SB 1070.
The Arizona Republic is reporting on Governor Jan Brewer is forming a tourism task force in response to convention cancellations and boycotts around the country.
The task force has a month to develop a plan to present to the governor. The first meeting has not yet been scheduled, according to Kiva Couchon, spokeswoman for the Arizona Office of Tourism.
Arizona has been taking heat for three weeks, and Rose says we can’t afford another month.
“We’re way past thinking about the issue. We’re way past studying the issue,” he says. “We need emergency leadership now.”
The governor, he says, might even consider declaring a state of emergency in order to suspend the rules that can slow governmental agencies from swift action.
Lesson: reactionary hate policy doesn’t pay.