Mayor in Arizona says her city will honor Nike commitment, state governor wants to yank funding
"... We will continue to work hard to bring the kind of high quality jobs that our residents deserve."
Ducey, a Republican who was formerly CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, has been Arizona's governor since 2015. Lord, who has served as mayor since 2011, was reelected in 2017 after having secured support from fellow Republicans, former U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake,. Her campaign platform promoted the businesses and jobs the city has attracted under her tenure, the paper said.
Nike had planned to release the sneakers featuring an early American flag designed by Betsy Ross in celebration of the July Fourth holiday, but pulled those shoes after former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick pointed to the flag's use during a period of slavery,While some extremists have used the flag to symbolize their ties to America before a large centralized federal government was established, a number of historians who spoke to CNBC saidNike's decision to pull the shoes...
Later Tuesday, Sen. Martin Trevor Heinrich tweeted, "We will gladly take a new Nike manufacturing plant in New Mexico!", "If we're in a political environment where the American flag has become too controversial to Americans, I think we got a problem."
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