San Francisco Considering Ending Boycott of Conservative States After It Backfired on Them

After the ban on travel and contracting was not effective in changing the policies of those states and raising the city’s costs of contracting, the City of San Francisco is now reconsidering its boycott of them.

As Breitbart News has reportedSan Francisco, California and California in general have declared boycotts and travel bans against Republican-governed states that have prohibited transgender bathrooms and restricted abortion.

Fox News reports that San Francisco’s original was a “foolish” idea. “2016 ordinance, Chapter 12X, was initially passed in the wake of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision to include states that passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, but was amended twice in 2019 and 2021 to add additional states who passed restrictive abortion and voting rights legislation.”

The following are the San Francisco Chronicle Not noted last week, the city’s ban applies to 30 states, only one of which has been removed from the banned list — and it did not refer to the San Francisco ban as the reason for having done so.

Fox News observes that officials from the city have a-href=”https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23609024-chapter-12x-policy-alternatives-memo?responsive=1&sidebar=0&title=0&pdf=0&onlyshoworg=1″>concluded The ban has increased the city’s costs of contracting.

A report released by City Administrator Carmen Chu earlier this month Observed: “While it is difficult to quantify the exact cost of 12X to the City, the Budget and Legislative Analyst notes that a loss in competition is likely to increase the City’s contracting costs by 10 – 20% annually. These costs could continue to increase and compound overtime as the City’s potential contractor pool shrinks if the list of banned states grows.”

Chu offers several options, including the complete repeal of the boycott or changing it in different ways.

Numerous members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors have already made similar proposals. They either asked for the ordinance to be repealed, or requested that construction contracts not be subject to the red-state boycott.

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