06-18-2021, 09:53 PM
p8712 wrote:
Having this become a national holiday though is very political. Would not have happened with previous guy. Like MLK jr day, not everyone will accept it.
Maybe AZ will finally recognize MLK day?
Nah.
It did:
After the MLK holiday vote failed in 1990, Arizona received a lot of criticism. Around the country conferences, conventions and other groups boycotted Arizona. The National Football League disqualified Phoenix as the host city for the 1993 Super Bowl game. The loss of the Super Bowl denied Phoenix a projected $200 million in revenue.
In November 1992, voters passed an Martin Luther King Civil Rights Day holiday. Arizona was the last state in the union to formally install an MLK holiday. (New Hampshire has a Civil Rights Day.) But Arizona was the only state to approve the MLK holiday by popular affirmation.
https://www.library.pima.gov/content/mar...n-arizona/