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California City Embargoes San Francisco
The City Council in Highland, Calif., has barred officials from spending money to send employees to San Francisco – a response to the Bay City’s approval of a measure that opposes military recruiting in public schools. Last fall, three Highland council members and the city manager attended a League of California Cities conference in San Francisco, spending about $4,900. But officials last week unanimously passed the resolution to end further spending there, the Los Angeles Times reports. "We ought to quit giving them revenues to spend on tomfoolery," said Ross Jones, mayor of the city of 50,000 near San Bernardino. In November, almost 60 percent of San Francisco voters approved Proposition I, a symbolic measure that indicated residents opposed military recruiting in public schools.
Story Continues Below Backers of the proposal said recruiters in schools are "preying on young, poor, working-class people and people of color to fuel the war machine." The ballot rebuttal, written by San Francisco Republican Alliance President Gail E. Neira, called those backers "ideologically delusional, socially dysfunctional, left-wing, free-loading, rhetoric-screaming fanatics." Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly jumped into the fray when he broadcast a message to the city: "You want to be your own country? Go right ahead." If terrorists were to blow up a tourist attraction in San Francisco, he told his radio listeners on Election Day, the rest of the country should shrug. "We wanted the military to understand that San Francisco does not speak for the rest of California," said Highland Councilman Larry McCallon.
The resolution says the council supports "the superior quality of military service we rely on for the protection of our country," and that recruiting in schools is vital to the strength of the armed forces.
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