Sally Kern apology coming soon? Anti-Gay Remarks Could Cost Oklahoma Major Corporation

[WillParkinson]

Or were her comments just taken out of context? :sarcasm:

Anti-Gay Remarks Could Cost Oklahoma Major Corporation
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

Posted: April 16, 2008 - 5:00 pm ET

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) A major corporation is reportedly having reservations about relocating to Oklahoma City in light of comments by state Rep. Sally Kern that gays are a worse threat than terrorists.

The Journal-Record reports that Staubach, a company that helps corporations relocate, is having trouble selling the city to its client, described only as a triple-A company with more than 1,000 employees.

The paper said that the unnamed company had not made up its mind but was seriously concerned following the publicity over Kern's remarks.

"He told us straight up … ‘I cannot recommend to any of my clients that they should consider Oklahoma City because of that,'" Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce told the Journal-Record.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/04/041608kn.htm

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[closeupready]

2. I'd guess that their reservations are not just about Sally Kerns' comments.

This is about the entire repressive, social environment of which she's not only a product but an opinion-maker.

Hey, we don't have speech codes in the US and people are free to express bigotry against minorities. At the same time, people and corporations are free not to relocate to places where such hate speech comes from democratically-elected authorities. I wouldn't relocate there in a zillion years.

[amihol]

3. i won't recommend..

[WillParkinson]

5. Your choice...

Though I don't recall anyone saying you had to.

[Zuiderelle]

7. Maybe he means he won't recommend anyone move their business to OK City.

(though I have to admit, I read it the same way as you)

[guruoo]

4. Irony here is that Kern is in perfect agreement ...

with Islamic terrorists...

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Between Oklahoma's anti-gay and anti-immigration attitudes, they may have just

shot themselves in the foot during hard economic times.

[canis_lupus]

8. Good! Let them congratulate each other ...

... for their "principled stand against homo-seck-shuls and foreigners" while their entire state circles the drain.

[Moloch]

9. The news just keeps getting worse for Oklahoma...

ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.

Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.

Burgess, the top officer in the county of 26,000 since 1994, appeared in court Wednesday was released after posting $50,000 bail.

A message left at Burgess' home Thursday was not immediately returned.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080417/D903RVIG0.html

I wonder whether this guy was a member of the Oklahoma republican party.... something tells me that he is.. and is one of Kern's supporters.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Oklahoma is a cess pool

Kern is Representative of the culture and any company who moves to OK City or any other city in OK will be making a mistake.
I have a long list of personal experiences there, but I just recommend that people read John Grisham's non fiction 'The Innocent Mant' and tell me you'd feel safe spending even a night in that atavistic and corrupt place.