By Dan Nowicki | The Republic | azcentral.com
A team from Phoenix is headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday to pitch the city as a site for the 2016 Republican National Convention, just days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a controversial right-to-refuse-service bill amid a national outcry.
While the political considerations of a particular convention location often are overanalyzed, experts told The Arizona Republic that the furor over Senate Bill 1062, which was widely denounced as anti-gay, could prompt RNC officials to take a harder a look at one of Phoenix’s seven rivals for the event, which brings an estimated $400 million economic impact.
Phoenix is competing against Cleveland; Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Dallas; Kansas City, Mo.; and Las Vegas, according to bid proposals submitted by the RNC’s Wednesday deadline.
