Editorial: Repeal California's ban on state-funded travel to some states

The ban has 'created a raft of bureaucratic work-arounds inside state government and thwarted some academic research,' writes The Times editorial board. (via latimesopinion)

. These examples don’t violate the law, but they show how meaningless it is in achieving what boycotts are supposed to do — make offensive entities feel a financial pinch.

In one instance, a history professor at San Francisco State was initially prevented from traveling to North Carolina to review archival records in libraries there, research he was pursing for a project on the historical context for that state’s anti-transgender bathroom law. Eventually he was able to get an exemption by showing the trip would be paid for by a private endowment, not with state funds.

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