Whats this Seattle City some boycott Seattle pays American Traffic Solutions to operate red-light cameras at?

Whats this Seattle City some boycott Seattle pays American Traffic Solutions to operate red-light cameras at 29 intersections when it costs them money why do that back off at what they will or will not boycott ?

Neither the Tacoma City Council nor its Seattle counterpart emerged from their debates over Arizona’s immigration-enforcement law this week unscathed.



Both councils are due some lumps for presuming to counsel a border state overwhelmed by illegal immigration.

City leaders living 1,000 miles north of the Mexican border can’t possibly fathom the depths of frustration that led Arizona to take matters into its own hands after years of federal inaction.



But give the Tacoma council some credit. It may not have had any more right to stick its nose in Arizona’s business than Seattle did, but at least Tacoma council members have copped to the impotence of the gesture.



That’s more than can be said of Seattle. The council there voted 7-0 to stage a “boycott” of goods and services from Arizona.



Some boycott. The resolution “urges” Seattle city government to refrain from sending employees to Arizona and from entering into new contracts with businesses headquartered there – “to the extent practicable.”





It apparently wasn’t practicable to cancel the city’s biggest contract with an Arizona company. Seattle pays American Traffic Solutions to operate red-light cameras at 29 intersections; in return, it gets millions in ticket revenue.



Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat quoted Mayor Mike McGinn, who supports the boycott, defending the exception. “You may have noticed we have a budget deficit here,” the mayor said.



Loosely translated: Seattle is OK with socking it to Arizona as long as the city itself doesn’t have to sacrifice. Some principled stand, that.



Tacoma council members Ryan Mello and Lauren Walker originally proposed a boycott, but backed down after a torrent of criticism. Their revised resolution urges Arizona to “rescind or significantly amend” its law allowing requiring police to ask a person about his or her immigration status if there’s reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally







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hopefully, Starbucks will start to see their revenue drop and put some pressure on the Seattle city council to mind their own business