I've started to do some quick research to find large corporations either headquartered in Arizona, or doing a lot of business in Arizona. Here's a partial list, and I'll be a
dding to it. I began by checking the members of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the assumption that a corporation would join the Arizona Chamber of Commerce only if they did significant business in Arizona.
I'm listing some notable companies below. As is often the case, many of these companies have subsidiaries you might know better (for instance, Suncor Development Company has developed or manages many retail and office properties throughout the West). You should check up on them, and I'll try to fill this out as time goes on. I haven't picked out every member of the Chamber of Commerce; instead, I've focused on those businesses who also do business elsewhere and could be boycotted by people livingoutside the state of Arizona.
The partial list:
Americopy
Bank of America
Boeing
Intel
Sumco (manufacturer of electronics-grade silicon wafers)
US Airways
Wells Fargo Bank
Cox Communications
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (owners of APS, APS Energy Services, Suncor Development Company, El Dorado Investment Company)
Southwest Gas Corporation
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Raytheon
Arizona Cardinals
Corrections Corporation of American (not sure how you boycott that, but seemed worth adding.)
Ernst & Young
Goodrich Corporation (defense and aviation contractor)
NAIOP (a national commercial development trade organization)
Pfizer
Service Group of America (owner of Food Services of America, Systems Services of America, Amerifresh, Ameristar Meats, Development Services of America, Event Services of America
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Arizona can pass race base laws, pass birthers laws and the state can continue to boycott Martin Luther King Day, well the rest of the Country can boycott the state of Arizona and spank them where it hurts them the most their pocket book. Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that .