“The largest publicity about a boycott has come from the mayor appearing on national television and talking about it,” huffed Councilman Kriss Worthington. Brij Misra, general manager of the Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina, lost a banquet because organizers were angry about the vote. He wonders “how much business we’ll lose because people will not come to Berkeley.” Throwing a leftist cliche back into the faces of the politically correct, Misra said, “We need to think locally before we act globally.”