Defunding the Outdoor Retailer Conference in Salt Lake City
The Issue
In the past couple of weeks, a couple of elected officials from the great state of Utah have been unfurling the desires of the fossil fuel industries through several different legislative proposals. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rob Bishop (R-UT) are the two primary spearheads of the most recent surge of the land transfer movement that has fizzled out several times in the past 50 years. Patagonia has lead the way in defunding this Outdoor Retailer Conference in Salt Lake City. Their efforts have been immediately applauded by a swath of Americans. We now need to encourage all of their competitors to follow suit in order to successfully remove the revenues that this large conference will bring to the state of Utah.
It has been proven that when major economic forces take their business elsewhere in the name of discouraging bad behavior by the GOP, major changes can subsequently take place. A famous recent example of this was when Bruce Springsteen and many others canceled tour dates and closed their doors in North Carolina when former governor Pat McCrory proposed a discriminatory bill against a large demographic of Americans.
If brands like Marmot, Mammut, Outdoor Research, Mountain Hardware, Gregory, and so many others follow suit with Patagonia; Chaffetz and Bishop will be forced to listen and cut out their behavior. Or they'll else suffer the same fate as McCrory did in North Carolina.
Chaffetz, Bishop, and the like are doing the same by discriminating against the general public, who are the rightful owners of all of our federal lands. We have an opportunity here to send a message to the great state of Utah that their legislator's behavior is intolerable among outdoor enthusiasts of all brands by asking all the major outdoor retailers who have traditionally attended this conference in Salt Lake City to rescind themselves and their dollars from attending.
People like me need to be outside to survive, and I know I'm not alone in this. All the greatest aspects of our country that remain lie in our National Forests, National Parks, National Monuments, National Wildlife Refuges, National Recreation Areas, Wilderness Areas, and so many others.
"The idea of wilderness needs to defense; just defenders". Help me defend our lands by defunding those who seek to take it away.
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The Issue
In the past couple of weeks, a couple of elected officials from the great state of Utah have been unfurling the desires of the fossil fuel industries through several different legislative proposals. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rob Bishop (R-UT) are the two primary spearheads of the most recent surge of the land transfer movement that has fizzled out several times in the past 50 years. Patagonia has lead the way in defunding this Outdoor Retailer Conference in Salt Lake City. Their efforts have been immediately applauded by a swath of Americans. We now need to encourage all of their competitors to follow suit in order to successfully remove the revenues that this large conference will bring to the state of Utah.
It has been proven that when major economic forces take their business elsewhere in the name of discouraging bad behavior by the GOP, major changes can subsequently take place. A famous recent example of this was when Bruce Springsteen and many others canceled tour dates and closed their doors in North Carolina when former governor Pat McCrory proposed a discriminatory bill against a large demographic of Americans.
If brands like Marmot, Mammut, Outdoor Research, Mountain Hardware, Gregory, and so many others follow suit with Patagonia; Chaffetz and Bishop will be forced to listen and cut out their behavior. Or they'll else suffer the same fate as McCrory did in North Carolina.
Chaffetz, Bishop, and the like are doing the same by discriminating against the general public, who are the rightful owners of all of our federal lands. We have an opportunity here to send a message to the great state of Utah that their legislator's behavior is intolerable among outdoor enthusiasts of all brands by asking all the major outdoor retailers who have traditionally attended this conference in Salt Lake City to rescind themselves and their dollars from attending.
People like me need to be outside to survive, and I know I'm not alone in this. All the greatest aspects of our country that remain lie in our National Forests, National Parks, National Monuments, National Wildlife Refuges, National Recreation Areas, Wilderness Areas, and so many others.
"The idea of wilderness needs to defense; just defenders". Help me defend our lands by defunding those who seek to take it away.
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Petition created on February 8, 2017