customers for religious reasons. in the spotlight tonight arizona senate bill 1062. most of the attention to this bill is on how it could target the lgbt community, but as the gay rights group, one community, points out, sb-1062 could affect almost anyone. a taxi driver could refuse to drive someone to a synagogue because it goes against his religion. women could be in danger of losing jobs because in some religions they are not equal. restaurateurs could refuse to serve a mormon family on the grounds that they disapprove of their religion. last may jan brewer vetoed a similar religious freedom bill as part of a package of bills that she refused to sign until the state legislature worked on expanding medicaid through the affordable care act. this time jan brewer s decision may come down to football. in the past the nfl has made decisioned about where they host the super bowl based on laws that are passed in the state.
in that direction. but there is a void to be filled, and people are going to look at that. but again, if he gets a clean bill somehow through these investigations, i would not and i know i ve irritated people sometimes on this air by saying it. i just don t think you can count this guy out until the verdict is in on these investigations because he is a talented performer and i don t think he s going to go away easily. david, i think in his press conference in terms of a republican presidential primary, he said, this is a quote, which is easy to remember, and will be in every ad against him, i delegate enormous authority to my cabinet and my staff. and in the very same press conference he said that that staff embarrassed and humiliated him. you join those two statements together in your 30-second ad against chris christie in any republican primary and i don t see how he gets through a month of it. well, i think the problem
and i m committed to working with you, working with anybody across the country to make that happen in arizona. we re absolutely with you. we love arizona. as i said, we know many, many, many people. and brad s got relatives in arizona. so yes, we d be happy to work with you to get rid of these that state senator who claimed that they had no idea that it was involving bigotry. how do people like that get elected in that office? we ve got to correct the process by which they get into office. he doesn t belong in public office. george, what about chad s point about please don t do a boycott of his state, please in fact come to arizona and try to actively change the situation while in arizona? that was at the heat of the moment, and it is a tactic, a strategy to persuade governor brewer to reject veto that bill.
country as a state that we only want certain kind of people here, that we only want to do business with certain kind of people. that is not what the majority of arizonans believe in this state. i know that in my heart. like i said, i ve been here my whole life. and i know that this bill was only passed by a very vocal minority. not the majority of the state. george takei, we may see more republican senators changing their minds as you keep this up. good, good, good. i ll be there supporting that. thank you very much for joining us tonight. george takei and chad campbell. thank you both very much. thank you. coming up, paul ryan is in favor of cutting defense spending as long as president obama doesn t say that he s in favor of cutting defense spending too. that s in the rewrite. and later, bill clinton is going to kentucky tomorrow, and sok kentuc kentucky s junior senator rand paul continued attacking him today. mine was earned in korea in 1953.
or legalizing i should say, state-sanctioned discrimination. and as george pointed out, it s a very heartbreaking bill for many of us that are arizonans. i m a native of the state, been here my whole life, and it s been eight years, my time in the legislature, and that was probably one of the worst votes i ve had to make in terms of the severity of the bill. and i do want to say to george s call for boycott, though, there are millions of arizonans that oppose this bill. the business community has come out against it. we have a wide range of people that are opposing this bill. so don t hold us all to the same standard, george, i beg you, for that. and don t think that we all are not open to everybody coming to our state and spending money here and living here and enjoying themselves here and raising a family here. and you know, really i would make the offer to george, come out here and let s work together and change this state this year. it is an election year. we can elect better peopl