A poll released by TWC News today is one of the first of its kind following the passage of HB 2 that measures support for the bill and the impact it’s having on voters in North Carolina. Unfortunately, the poll question regarding the actual bill itself might as well have been written by Buck Newton […]
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Dan Forest: “The Charlotte Ordinance Was Amazingly Discriminatory”
In an interview last week (first reported on by Right Wing Watch) with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who has compared the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to bestiality, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest laid a whopper while discussing HB 2. “In fact, the Charlotte ordinance was amazingly discriminatory against, especially women and girls,” […]
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The Morning Roundup: UNC Is Going to the ‘Ship
Happy Monday! This is what happened over the weekend.1. Update: HB 2 is still bad. Quick recap of where we’re at in regards to the five pages of dogshit known as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act. Over 120 business leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, signed onto a […]
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Revel in the Secondhand Embarrassment of This HB 2 Debate on Twitter Between Mike Hager and Montel Williams
Folks, your House Majority Leader. The system works.
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We Fact-Check Governor McCrory’s Fact-Check on HB 2.
Last Wednesday, the whirlwind special session convened for the purpose of overturning Charlotte’s antidiscrimination ordinance—particularly a provision that allows trans people to use the bathroom that conforms to their gender identity—concluded with Governor McCrory signing a law that did so much more. Ending the ability of cities to create their own nondiscrimination measures, eliminating workplace-discrimination […]
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Novo Nordisk and McCrory Don’t See Eye to Eye on HB 2
On Monday, Governor Pat McCrory took questions on HB 2 at a groundbreaking ceremony at the biotech company Novo Nordisk’s Clayton, North Carolina facility. McCrory has championed the company as proof of his “Carolina Comeback,” but the Danish company has some “concerns” about HB 2. Novo Nordisk is an international company based in Denmark, a […]
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New York City and State, Seattle Employees Banned From ‘Non-Essential’ Travel to North Carolina
The backlash against HB 2 continues, as the state of New York, New York City, Seattle, and West Palm Beach, Florida all banned “non-essential travel” for state and city government employees to the state of North Carolina after last Wednesday’s discrimination parade. From New York governor Andrew Cuomo: “In New York, we believe that all […]
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Here It Comes: HB 2 Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court
We told you this was coming: this morning, the ACLU of North Carolina and Equality NC announced that they had filed a lawsuit (at about 1:47 in the morning, according to ACLU legal director Chris Brooks) against the state of North Carolina, on the grounds that it violates both Title IX and the Equal Protection […]
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The Morning Roundup: It Can’t Get Much Worse Than Last Week!
Happy Monday, y’all. Here’s what happened over the weekend.1. Pat McCrory is starting to realize that everyone hates HB 2. The media, from our local N&O to The New York Times, have sharply rebuked the law. The N&O called it “an insult to all the people of North Carolina,” while the NYT said it made […]
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Seventeen Republicans Filed to Run For George Holding’s Old Seat. Seventeen.
If that didn’t register for whatever reason, let me repeat: seventeen Republicans filed to run for Congressman George Holding’s 13th District seat in the special Congressional primary. Holding, you’ll remember, is running against his Republican colleague, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, in the 2nd District. The clowncar of Republican candidates running to replace Holding is headed by […]