San Francisco realizes its red-state boycott only hurts itself
Zachary Faria
San Francisco has suddenly discovered that its brave boycott of red-state contractors is doing nothing but harming its own residents.
In 2016, San Francisco enacted a city ordinance that would ban city travel to and business with red states that are not sufficiently liberal on abortion or do not subscribe to fringe left-wing social justice theories about race and sexuality. In 2017, eight U.S. states were on San Francisco’s blacklist, but that number has now risen to 30.
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The bill has accomplished nothing, of course, because GOP legislators in other states don’t prioritize San Francisco liberals over their own constituents. But as a result of this boycott, San Francisco’s annual contracting costs have risen 20%. The boycott has been such a failure that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has begun the repeal process. Evidently, the city has found that it is no longer sustainable to spend $1.7 million on a single public toilet.
San Francisco is finally starting to shake off its liberal decay, one disastrous policy rollback at a time. The liberal rot will be hard to shake in California, which itself has a similar boycott in place against 23 states, but the first step to solving a problem is admitting that you created it.
San Francisco is slowly realizing that performative liberalism is no substitute for competent governance. Everyone should be pleased if the long rehabilitation of a great city is finally underway.