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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:54 PM Feb 2017

Exodus of outdoor show from Utah criticized by beneficiaries

Source: Associated Press

Brady Mccombs, Associated Press Updated 7:11 pm, Tuesday, February 21, 2017



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Sales double twice a year at the Toasters sandwich shop in downtown Salt Lake City when tens of thousands of plaid-shirted outdoor retailer representatives arrive in town for a massive industry trade show.

And Laser Exhibitor Service hires 100 people before each show to set up and take down about 60 exhibitor booths for the Outdoor Retailer shows.

But Toasters owners Enes and Mubera Huskic and Laser owner Adam Swillinger won't get that business anymore after the show announced last week it will leave Salt Lake City after two decades because of the stance by the state's Republican leadership on public lands. This summer's show could be the last one held in Utah.

The Huskics say they may have to cut back employee hours at their location across the street from the convention center, one of four they operate.




Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Exodus-of-outdoor-show-from-Utah-criticized-by-10949345.php

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Exodus of outdoor show from Utah criticized by beneficiaries (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2017 OP
Someone that puts their money where their mouth is... Bayard Feb 2017 #1
It's that Free Market thing that the GOP Sherman A1 Feb 2017 #2
+1000 Cryptoad Feb 2017 #5
Worship the invisible hand of the market. safeinOhio Feb 2017 #10
You get what you voted for kimbutgar Feb 2017 #3
There's that alternate job growth... sagetea Feb 2017 #4
This who thing has been simmering for several years. Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #6
Yup, plenty of other places to do outdoor stuff obamanut2012 Feb 2017 #9
If you are a Outdoors related Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #14
Free market, baby! bravenak Feb 2017 #7
GOP bites the hand that feeds it again. wildeyed Feb 2017 #8
Oh boy, is the NRA screwed on this issue. safeinOhio Feb 2017 #11
Outdoor Retailers serve people who love and use the outdoors! Hortensis Feb 2017 #12
Elections have consequences... FSogol Feb 2017 #13
A quick slap from the Invisible Hand . . . hatrack Feb 2017 #15
I'd like to see Robert Redford move the Sundance Film Festival out of Utah too!! n/t diva77 Feb 2017 #16

Bayard

(21,801 posts)
1. Someone that puts their money where their mouth is...
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:57 PM
Feb 2017

"the show announced last week it will leave Salt Lake City after two decades because of the stance by the state's Republican leadership on public lands. " Good on them!

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. It's that Free Market thing that the GOP
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:01 PM
Feb 2017

loves so very much. The State GOP Leadership made a business decision and the Outdoor Show operators made on as well..

It's Just Business after all......

kimbutgar

(20,871 posts)
3. You get what you voted for
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:04 PM
Feb 2017

The rethug party has gone off the rails in an insane and cruel way. I am flabbergasted everyday by the devious hurtful hideous things they say and do.

sagetea

(1,363 posts)
4. There's that alternate job growth...
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:08 PM
Feb 2017

The Huskics say they may have to cut back employee hours at their location across the street from the convention center, one of four they operate.

sigh....

sage

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. This who thing has been simmering for several years.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:31 PM
Feb 2017

Bishop,Chaffetz,Hatch,and Lee were warned this would happen. Forty Million in direct Show loss,now,the bigly one,minimum of one billion to as much as 3 billion in loss recreational sales for the State. This number is most likely on the low end.

As many have warned,you broke it,now pay for it.

Hunch says,they just kissed several thousands of jobs done the crapper.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
14. If you are a Outdoors related
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 03:30 PM
Feb 2017

Business,this is where you make or break your Season is at these Shows. If they had to rely on just Utah Residents,well that ain't going to make it. Average Utah Residents do not have the disposable Income to or the free time to support their Recreational Industry.

wildeyed

(11,240 posts)
8. GOP bites the hand that feeds it again.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 11:30 PM
Feb 2017

They make fun of 'elites', gerrymander our electoral power away and then get a sad when we vote with the only thing we have left, our sweet disposable incomes. Our votes may not count as much but we are still more affluent. We would rather spend it with people who don't spit in our faces, thanks!

safeinOhio

(32,525 posts)
11. Oh boy, is the NRA screwed on this issue.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 08:14 AM
Feb 2017

Selling off Federal land is great for all those militia type members, but that is a very small percentage of their membership. The large number of sportsmen and women members are the ones that are not happy.

Or NRA is suppose to be about gun safety and shoots it's self in the foot.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Outdoor Retailers serve people who love and use the outdoors!
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 08:47 AM
Feb 2017

This is excellent news. A stand by a very large show, at which hundreds of retailers display, including large retail chains like Cabela's, against a Republican giveaway of public lands to those who would exploit and ravage them.

Btw, our taxes are of course the main source of federal funds. ONE GUESS what the second is.

Giving away our extremely valuable land assets has nothing to do with "freedom," a whole LOT to do with profiteering and cronyism, but the main goal of the right-wing extremists driving this is to continue dismantling the government of, by and for the people that we established 225 years ago.

FSogol

(45,355 posts)
13. Elections have consequences...
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 03:04 PM
Feb 2017

Vote for someone who hates the idea of public lands and public lands will suffer.

hatrack

(59,439 posts)
15. A quick slap from the Invisible Hand . . .
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 04:57 PM
Feb 2017

And who did Utah vote for? Oh, yeah, that's right - Hatch, Chaffetz, Bishop, Love and (of course) T***p.

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