RADICAL RIGHT — OHIO RADIO STATION RUNS CONTEST TO ‘SPEND A WEEKEND CHASING ALIENS’ IN PHOENIX: Last week, Columbus, OH, Mayor Michael Coleman announced that he was banning city employees from traveling to Arizona on government business because of the state’s harsh new anti-immigration law. “He agrees with those who want to send a message to the state of Arizona that this is not the American way,” Coleman’s spokesman said. In response, a local radio station launched a contest to send a listener to Phoenix to “spend a weekend chasing aliens.” 610 WTVN, which broadcasts right-wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin, told listeners it wanted to “send you where Americans are proud and illegals are scared, sunny Phoenix, Arizona!” “You’ll spend a weekend chasing aliens and spending cash in the desert, just make sure you have your green card!” the promotion continued, noting that winners would get “a few pesos in spending cash.” Specially responding to Coleman, the station added, “City employees [are] encouraged to enter.” A coalition of Central Ohio Latino groups have called on the station to apologize for the promotion, saying the contest is an example of “the chilling effect of what is happening in Arizona with SB 1070.” “The promotion is insensitive and offensive to all Central Ohio communities. Instead of supporting more diversity in the city and better inter-ethnic relations, they are singling out one ethnic group in a degrading fashion,” a statement from the group read. This isn’t the first right-wing vigilante campaign to promote Arizona’s harsh new immigration law. A neo-Nazi group there recently distributed fliers encouraging people to “Report An Illegal” on Cinco de Mayo