It was a secret vote. No public hearing. No paperwork. There was just a question: Do you support a boycott of the state of Arizona because of its crackdown on illegals.And the Boston City Council voted unanimously - albeit in anonymity - to boycott Arizona. Off the top of my head I can't think any any business in Boston that is dependent on anything out of Arizona. Agave sweetner maybe because it is made from cactus juice? Rattle snake venom? The Arizona-based chain store Cold Stone Creamery has crappy ice cream anyway. But there are plenty of people who buy products from Massachusetts. Hordes who travel to Boston to walk down the Freedom Trail and eat out in the North End. Tourists who drink beer at the Black Rose and folks who travel into Beantown from outside of Suffolk County. Sam Adams is sold across the country. So are Boston baked beans. And Necco wafers. And marshmallow Fluff. Imagine if there was a Boston boycott because the City Council here cannot do their own jobs but want to tell law enforcment in other states how to do theirs."This is not a binding resolution,'' City Council President Mike Ross told me tonight during his appearance on the show. "We are sending a message."  That's for sure. The message is a slap in the face to the deputy sheriff in Arizona who was shot by drug smugglers with machine guns Friday afternoon. It's a slap in the face to the people of Arizona who are law-abiding business owners. And it is a kick in the jimmies to people like me who want safe streets. Clean streets. Pot-hole free steets. Street lights.I want my library in Orient Heights East Boston to stay open. Our teachers to stay employeed. What a disgrace.

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