San Francisco Mulls End to Red-State Boycott That Hurt Its Finances

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors may soon pull its boycott on conservative red states after the move backfired and hurt the city’s finances as it begins to deal with budget shortfalls.
The 2016 ban on municipally funded travel and contracting failed to have any impact on those states’ policies and has caused the city’s contracting costs to jump by almost a fifth.
In 2017, eight U.S. states were on San Francisco’s blacklist. Since then, relations with least 30 conservative states which passed laws to restrict homosexual and transgender rights, abortion access, and enhance voting ballot security were affected by the city’s edict….}