Santa Fe, San Francisco Mayors to Speak in Support of Big Box laws

This is an article from the Chicago Tribune, put online by the Chicago Federation of Labor, about their decision to bring in mayors who have passed big box ordinances successfully.

I mentioned this before, that those in support of the ordinance brought in Santa Fe and San Francisco's mayors to talk about the success of big box laws in their cities.

I think this is interesting to see after the veto went through, because these people came and spoke to the aldermen, further convincing them to support the measure, while Mayor Daley remained pretty steadfast in his choice to veto it. This article was published prior to the veto and quotes the mayor saying that the law would prevent big stores from locating in the city. I wonder why he chose to ignore that this didn't occur in other big cities like San Francisco--I'm sure Wal-Mart made similar threats in those cities, but they developed there anyways because they need to expand outside of suburbs and had no success overseas. Daley probably spoke with those other mayors, so I wonder why they were unable to convince him that his fears were unfounded.