Alabama boycott builds as states retaliate against abortion law

[pnwmom]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A movement to boycott Alabama over its near-ban on abortion gained momentum Thursday as officials in Maryland and Colorado called for economic retaliation and online flyers urged people not to buy anything in, or from Alabama.

A day after the southern state passed the country’s most restrictive abortion law, Maryland’s Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot said he would advise his state’s $52 billion pension fund to divest from Alabama, and urged other states to follow suit.

Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold called for a boycott of Alabama and urged the Election Center, an organization that trains election officials from across the country, to move out of the state.

The hashtag #BoycottAlabama gained momentum online, with activists calling for boycotts of products ranging from Mercedes-Benz cars to broiler chickens that are produced in Alabama.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-alabama-boycott/alabama-boycott-builds-as-states-retaliate-against-abortion-law-idUSKCN1SM2V8

[dalton99a]

1. Make them feel the wrath.

[DENVERPOPS]

6. Alabama already, like most southern crap states

Alabama already, like most southern crap states, gets far more money from the Federal Gov't than the send to the Feds.

I imagine if they lose more money, they will just get more from the Feds paid for by the states that send more than they get......LOL

[Lady_Chat]

24. No, this is where it finally has to stop

For years, I've been so tired of them freeloading off of Blue States, while they complain about "taxes" and "wanting the government out of their lives". Then they grab Federal money with both hands. They hate us, but not our money. Well now it's time for us to start withholding money we send to the Federal government for them. Trump wanted to withhold Federal money to Sanctuary Cities, he saw no problem doing that. And neither should we, it's time to get together and organize. Use the money within our own states. How insane is it, that women from ass backwards states will have to try and find states that will allow abortion. What's next? Sending people off to different states to vote, if they don't follow the religious teachings of Alabama? Alabama, the state that is 50th in education, they sure care about their children, don't they? What a farce. I never realized till the other day, just how much the GOP hates women.

Interesting read if you're from a Blue State and the crap the GOP pulled on us in 2017.

"Blue states already subsidize red states. Now red states want even more."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/10/30/blue-states-already-subsidize-red-states-now-red-states-want-even-more/?

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Thank you for this

I call them Welfare States. Thieves. I'm being taxed twice in NJ to support ass wipes? No more.

I'm cheating on my tax return next year. Zero fucks given.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. I am on committee for an education

conference in 2020, lots of states to avoid.

[marybourg]

3. I hope somebody puts together a list

of companies and organizations from AL and GA to boycott. I don't know where my chickens come from !.

[SCVDem]

10. Hollywood is on it!

Georgia has a lot of production to lose.

Alabama? What do they have without government projects, like NASA and about five military bases.

Cut their aid and rebuild Puerto Rico!

[Lady_Chat]

26. Hope you're right, but not so sure about Hollywwod

In the Georgia (Group) here on DU, there was a post about
"Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams will shoot HBO drama in GA,"donate" their fees to fight 'heartbeat' bill."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10462865


Not enough, they need to take their business elsewhere, giving Georgia a loss. Hope other production companies move out of there, hit Georgia right in the wallet.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I just read this...

. Here is the list of corporations backing the legislative leaders behind the abortion ban:

@ATT

@exxonmobil

@pfizer

@Walmart

@Boeing

@StateFarm

@LillyPad

@CaterpillarInc

@KochIndustries

@DraftKings

@AltriaNews

@comcast

@CVSHealth

@AnheuserBusch

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=232115

[Lady_Chat]

25. Thank you, for the List

Won't do business with any of them, anymore.

[BigmanPigman]

27. You're welcome.

Bill Maher mentioned boycotting AL on his show tonight.

[FloridaBlues]

4. It's like all these states made a pack to ban abortions at the same time

Alabama took it to the edge and all focus is on them meanwhile look at Ohio, Missouri, Ga and now Louisiana who ban it after heart beat or 8 weeks pregnant.
The ACLU lawyers have their hands full taking these states to court.
Perhaps a few dollars can be sent their way to help?

[eggplant]

7. It's not a coincidence.

[raging moderate]

16. When is there an actual heart with an actual heartbeat?

I have heard different people say the word "heartbeat" is being used by right-wingers to describe something that is not an actual heartbeat.

[obamanut2012]

17. THey DID make a pact -- there is a literal plan to do this

And, thanks to folks not wanting to vote for Hillary because SHE WASN'T PURE ENOUGH, SCOTUS and Fed courts are set up to overturn Roe.

[paleotn]

22. Rethuglican state legislators have been doing this for years....

One year, virtually all the "bathroom bills" came up in nearly every red state legislature. They also passed legislation in several states outlawing municipalities from enacting sexual orientation non-discrimination ordinances. They plan this before every legislative session and virtually the same bills show up in state houses all across Jebusland.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Alabama supporters can send their teen daughters to intern/work with Roy Moore.

[CDerekGo]

8. #BOYCOTTGEORGIA

Should be trending as well. Hell, each and every State that has decided that it's ok to 'insert' it'self into a Woman's Uterus needs to be boycotted.

[BigmanPigman]

9. GOOD!

I suggested this on Tues when word came out from AL.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10082454

[Dawson Leery]

11. Pity the foreign car makers went to the KKKonfederacy to make cars.

I'd prefer to buy directly from Germany than the old south.

[yaesu]

14. I wouldn't buy any car made in KKK land. nt

[Hugin]

29. They are no angels. They are there for the fascist "right-to-work" laws.

Which go hand in hand with the whole totalitarian theme.

[yaesu]

13. Alabama will be sucking up all that federal safety net money from the "big govment" they hate nt

[Brother Buzz]

15. Dammit, California already bans state travel to Alabama

[a la izquierda]

18. I have a good friend who's a professor...

At a state school in CA. He can’t travel to lots of places, and is completely fine with it. I don’t blame him. I live in WV, where one of these “bills” is up for consideration.
Needless to say I’m doing whatever I can to get the hell out of here.

[ROB-ROX]

19. GREAT IDEA

This is FANTASTIC idea; fighting this horrible state with the MONEY slap. It is to bad this state is sucking money from the FEDERAL budget to support their poor "state" of economic despair. My daughter drove across this state and this is not a place for decent people to live......

[paleotn]

20. Why would anyone want to go to Alabama in the first place?

I've been there. Several times. You're missing nothing.

[Progressive Jones]

21. Congress needs to adjust downward the amount of Federal money going to Alabama.

Alabama is already one of the Taker States. It takes in more Federal funding than it
sends to Washington in tax revenues.

[Gumboot]

23. What? Mercedes-Benz builds cars in Alabama?

Dannnng... I didn't know that.

The three-pointed star has lost its shine.