Another cancelled convention due to SB 1070

The Republic reports that another group has cancelled an upcoming convention in the city:

A minority suppliers group that would have brought 7,000 convention attendees to Phoenix this fall has moved the meeting to Florida because of Arizona’s new immigration law.

The National Minority Suppliers Development Council, Inc. released a statement, which Phoenix officials received today.

The story doesn’t explicitly say so, but the group was apparently set for the convention center.

The story notes that convention center cancellations hit the city twice; first because of the last money that would otherwise have been spent in the city, and then second because the city operates the convention center and owns the nearby Sheraton Hotel.

The Republic has a list of cancelled conventions and announced boycots here. The list is confusing and not particularly well put together—the National Urban League is listed twice, doing two different and contradictory things, for example.

Read carefully, however, and it looks as if the minority suppliers is only the fifth officially pulled convention.