San Francisco's boycott of 28 states backfires
by Andrew Kerr, Investigative Reporter | | March 19, 2022 05:15 AM
The former San Francisco supervisor who put his city on the path to banning itself from conducting business with over half the country is having second thoughts.
Then-Supervisor Scott Weiner, now a California state senator, passed an ordinance in 2016 banning San Francisco from doing business with any company based in any state with "anti-LGBT laws" or from funding travel to any such state. The rule was expanded in 2019 to boycott any state that enacted anti-abortion laws and again in 2021 to boycott any states with voter suppression laws.
Thanks to the rules, the city of San Francisco has prohibited itself from doing business with any entity headquartered in 28 states. Weiner recently told a local news outlet that he's starting to worry that his rush to boycott wide swaths of the nation may have had unintended consequences.
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