Growing boycott of annual California State Bar meeting at hotel owned by a Prop. 8 supporter

03/16/09 The Recorder (subscription required):

The boycott targets San Diego Manchester Grand Hyatt owner Doug Manchester, who "donated $125,000 toward the passage of Proposition 8." An official of the State Bar expressed concern that the Bar may have to cancel its annual meeting due to insufficient attendance.

"Since mid-January when the Beverly Hills bar suggested that many of its 4,000 members wouldn't attend the annual meeting unless it was moved to another hotel, several other groups have followed suit. The Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, BASF, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's delegates to the Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations, as well as the Conference of Delegates itself, either have pulled out or threatened to boycott."

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