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PDittie

(8,322 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 10:04 AM Aug 2015

Sign the petition: "If Houston turns down HERO, the NFL must relocate the 2017 Super Bowl"

https://www.change.org/p/nfl-roger-goodell-houston-super-bowl-host-committee-the-nfl-should-move-the-2017-super-bowl-if-houston-defeats-the-hero-ordinance


Kent Friedman, board chair of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, warned that if HERO is scuttled, it could cost the city the 2016 NCCA Men's Final Four and 2017 Super Bowl. The NFL title game brings an economic impact "north of $800 million" to the city, he said.

"It would be pretty consistent for those institutions to react the same way if Houston were perceived" similarly to Arizona and Indiana during debates over anti-gay "religious freedom" legislation, Friedman said.


http://www.projectq.us/houston/supporters_urge_city_to_save_hero_force_vote?gid=17099

This is the most effective message we can send between now and November -- when the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) is on the ballot, 'for' or 'against' -- to drive a wedge between the pro-business Republicans in Houston and the social conserva-- err, extremists.

Sign it and share it on your social media. You do NOT have to live in Houston or even Texas to sign the petition.
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Sign the petition: "If Houston turns down HERO, the NFL must relocate the 2017 Super Bowl" (Original Post) PDittie Aug 2015 OP
And it has turned down HERO sakabatou Nov 2015 #1
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