"Inside HB2 author's legislative emails on LGBT issues"; Rep. Dan Bishop and some of his contributors

"The architect of the state’s controversial law to stop cities from extending non-discrimination protection to gay and transgender people insists no amount of protests and pressure could convince him to back down or soften his stance. And, when that architect — Rep. Dan Bishop — isn’t debating the merits of the law known as House Bill 2 with constituents and critics, he is championing and celebrating those who support the measure.

HB2 had four primary sponsors, 

the most vocal of those, Rep. Dan Bishop of Mecklenburg County, 

did not return calls inquiring about who pushed for that provision.

“I don’t fear man. I fear God. So I won’t be backing down,” Bishop (R-Mecklenburg) stated in a message he sent to a Charlotte man who implored the lawmaker not to allow persistent opposition to the law to lead to concessions.

LAWRENCE MOORE

ATTORNEY

ROBINSON BRADSHAW & HINSON PA

2105 E 8TH ST

CHARLOTTE, NC 28204

...The best hope is that (N.C. Senate President Pro Tempore) Phil Berger has nerves of steel, and because of that, I am pretty confident that the Senate will not be changing that law. At least not in this session.”

HOWARD C BISSELL

CHAIRMAN

BISSELL COMPANIES

11715 NORTH COMMUNITY HOUSE RD

CHARLOTTE, NC 28211

$2,000.00

Bishop wrote those words on April 5, hours after tech firm PayPal announced it was abandoning plans to bring 400 jobs to Charlotte...

RICHARD VINROOT

ATTORNEY

ROBINSON BRADSHAW & HINSON PA

325 CHEROKEE PL

CHARLOTTE, NC 28207-2301

...At times defiant and combative and, at others, aggrieved and heartened, Bishop states his case forcefully in the exchanges provided by his office in response to a public records request by the Charlotte Business Journal.

STEVE CORNWELL

INVESTOR

CORNWELL INDUSTRIES

2101 QUEENS RD EAST

CHARLOTTE, NC 28207

$2,000.00

Bishop is a former county commissioner and local attorney who won his first term in the N.C. House in 2014. This year, he is running for the seat that will be vacated by state Sen. Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg), who is retiring.

STEFAN GLEASON

MARKETING

ASCENSION MARKETING GROUP

PO BOX 49246

CHARLOTTE, NC 28277

$5,100.00

...An aide to Bishop initially declined the request for emails and records related to HB2 asserting that " it is the view of the General Assembly central staff that public records law does not apply to contact between legislators and constituents.” He cited no specific exemptions from N.C. public records statutes...

MICHAEL KAHN

SPORTS TEAM OWNER

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS

8046 EAGLE GLEN WAY

CHARLOTTE, NC 28210

$5,100.00

...Buchan and the CBJ are still pursuing any additional communications that were not included in Bishop’s response this week. They have again asked Bishop to cite any legal authority supporting his position that these are not public records under N.C. law. The paper has also sought records from the city of Charlotte, Sen. Rucho, Sen. Berger (R-Rockingham) and Rep. Chris Srgo (D-Guilford).

MARYANN LARGEN

COO

MED EMPORIUM, LLC

5725 OLD WELL HOUSE RD

CHARLOTTE, NC 28226

$5,100.00

"The North Carolina Public Records Act says documents made or received in connection with the transaction of public business are ‘the property of the people,’” Buchan said. “I’m aware of no statutory exemption or legislative privilege for the records sought by the Charlotte Business Journal. I’ve asked Rep. Bishop to cite the specific legal basis for claiming these records are not required to be made available to the public, but so far he has not provided that.”

ROBERT GALLAGHER

PUBLISHER

GOOD WILL PUBLISHERS, INC.

4130 MOORLAND DR

CHARLOTTE, NC 28226

$1,000.00

...in his view, it doesn’t hurt LGBT people or anyone else — the messages provided include scant communication with fellow lawmakers or any other politicians.

...Roberts, the Charlotte mayor, whom Bishop urged not to support the ordinance passed in February, doesn’t appear as a sender or recipient of any of the emails.

...In many instances, emails from those backing the state law praise Bishop and his Republican allies in the General Assembly for adhering to Christian values and protecting women and children by preventing public restroom use in government buildings and schools based on gender identity.

...UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law professor Judith Welch Wegner sent Bishop a blistering message in April in which she blamed “the state of hate that you and fellow partisans have created” for her decision to leave the university next year. Wegner, dean of the law school from 1989 to 1999, reminded Bishop that she taught him property law at UNC.

The subject line of her email includes the phrase “disowning you as a former student.”

Bishop did not respond, though he did forward the message with a cryptic remark: “On official email account no less.”

...“Stop being intimidated and extorted by the political correct police because there is no telling where this ends and the damage to our state and country. The large corporations are more concerned about offending the left wing extremists, their reputation and profits then (sic) they are about the rights of millions of woman (sic) and children...

Added Bishop: “Business skittishness is entirely the result of false media reports and activist grip on big corporations.”

...Some of Bishop’s most withering responses and criticism often involve reporters and media stories about HB 2. In April, ProPublica reporter Nina Martin emailed Bishop to tell him that her story on HB 2 had been posted online.

“Thanks for letting me know,” Bishop responded. “I read it. Confirmed my expectations that you would misrepresent the situation. So be it.”

Exchanges with The Charlotte Observer include assertions of inaccuracies in some coverage.

Randy Broome, a Charlotte economic development consultant and self-described minor contributor to past Bishop campaigns, argues back and forth with Bishop in a series of messages spanning March to May.

One of the strongest reactions from Bishop follows Broome’s questions about a WRAL-TV “fact check” condemning arguments made by McCrory and other HB2 supporters.

Broome mentioned WRAL questioned “some of the things you presented as facts in our discussion.”

Bishop’s answer? “Their ‘fact check’ is absurdly false. Too time consuming to write the details. I will get to it and distribute in time via (Facebook), like the (Charlotte) Observer falsehood I exposed last night. First, must refute some lies by the ( Raleigh News & Observer). I’m sure all of the lies are coincidental.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2016/06/09/inside-hb2-authors-legislative-emails-on-lgbt.html?ana=RSS%26s%3Darticle_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_triad+%28Triad+Business+Journal%29
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Saturday, April 16, 2016; "Rep. Dan Bishop Applauds Overwhelming Passage of the “Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act,” [HB2] Urges Governor McCrory to Sign the Measure" and some of his 2016 campaign contributors, who, by not asking for their money back, are supporters of bigotry and employment discrimination in North Carolina

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/rep-dan-bishop-applauds-overwhelming.html

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: BISHOP FOR SENATE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-I1750P-C-001&OGID=26591

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=H&nUserID=698



http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_detail.aspx?RID=138464&TP=REC

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_detail.aspx?RID=137638&TP=REC

WILLIAM CONN
PRESIDENT
MED EMPORIUM LLC
5401 OLD COURSE DR
CHARLOTTE, NC 28277
$5,000.00

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_detail.aspx?RID=137634&TP=REC

Dear businesses looking to relocate or expand in Greensboro, North Carolina

Our elected leadership, of which some appear to have been “purchased” by entrenched special interests through campaign donations, and some City government employees, regularly act to retard potential profitability in order to support “chosen” for-profit businesses who provide “grants” or campaign contributions in exchange for monopolistic government contracts like Mike Barber's First Tee of the Triad and Zack Matheny's DGI.   Legislated benefits like free streets and sweet real estate deals are unavailable to the non-wheel greasing general public, but only to those who have funded the campaigns of the inexpensive stooges who fork over taxpayer owned resources to their masters.  

As we wait for City Council to decide which 'necessary' infrastructure debt is to be voted on in the upcoming election, at least $55 million in debt voted on by Council justified with bullshit math which Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record didn't bother to investigate, directly lined the pockets of Council campaign contributors, which has never been reported and most likely will not be, as it would be counter to Warren Buffett's broader interests for a local paper he owns to point out what Warren does best.

Disappointment may follow expectations of Greensboro’s News and Record, that used to be our paper of record and the Rhino Times, our most 'conservative' weekly, now owned by HB2 supporter Roy Carroll, defending free market capitalism and support for local for-profit small businesses against Greensboro's bought and paid for fascistic government intervention for the upper crust.

The News and Record and the Rhino's 'editorial boards' appear to be indifferent to the entrepreneurial spirit that made America a great country.  John Hammer has his head so far up Roy's ass he can't hear the behind the door insults he justifiably receives for betraying his profession by selling out and shilling propaganda for profit paid for by his reader's tax payments.

Many may be coming to realize that an oligarchy of a majority of Greensboro’s elected leadership, elite business interests, news executives and top city and county employees have set upon the course of transferring wealth out of the hands of taxpayers and small unconnected businesses to a select chosen few, while the overwhelming majority of the population remains unaware, because Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle won't do or are prevented from doing their jobs.

How else could the News and Record not point out local bigs like Roy who funded the legislators who voted for HB2?  They all seem to be on the same team when it comes to shielding local elites from public scrutiny.  That's how public corruption is allowed to happen.

Oligarchy

A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons

or in a dominant class or clique;

Government by the few.

Dictionary.com

The following is from Roy Carroll's Rhino Times, written by John Hammer, who defended HB2 for Roy, who contributed to a bunch of the legislators who voted for it without being held to account via multiple acts of journalistic cowardice by Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record.  

Some of this needs to be copy and pasted before Roy and John take it off the Rhino site, like they did with the local net worth article, and after John went under, and after the News and Record did the same on multiples of occasions within five years or so;

"...In cities that have passed laws similar to those in Charlotte, men have been apprehended for hanging out in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.  Their defense was that they identified as women...

Except Pat McCrory couldn't come up with any when asked about it on national TV, 

making North Carolina look bad, costing us jobs and economic growth, 

and John Hammer and Roy Carroll were with Pat on the subject until they went silent

after it become clear Roy Carroll and friends hurt our City and state with their actions

...It’s hard to believe that the fact that men should use the men’s restroom and women should use the women’s restroom is controversial... Who knew that men had a fundamental right to go in the bathrooms and locker rooms designated for women?

...One aspect of the ordinance that the Charlotte City Council seemed to ignore is the fact that men are frequently arrested for drilling holes in the walls of public bathrooms and peeping at women.

...If these men are willing to risk arrest by drilling peepholes and peering through them, do people actually believe they would hesitate to claim they are transgender in order to have access to a woman’s bathroom?

If a man says that he identifies as a woman, who is to say that he doesn’t?  Before Bruce Jenner had surgery and became Caitlyn Jenner, he certainly looked nothing like a woman, but he says he identified as a woman.

He/she didn't have surgery, meaning John Hammer misled the public on the issue

...State Rep. Jon Hardister of Greensboro brought up an aspect of HB 2 that has received little press.  Hardister said, “Charlotte overstepped its authority."

The High Point Market, better known as the furniture market, is ignoring an old adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”  The furniture market receives $1.2 million for marketing and $1.2 million for transportation from the state each year.

In the state budget passed last year, state Sen. Trudy Wade, who represents High Point, fought hard for the furniture market and got the allocation raised by $544,000 per year to the present level.

John Hammer threatened the Furniture Market for Roy Carroll

to advance support for HB2 and the legislators Roy funded who voted for it

which the News and Record won't report via cowardice

By joining the onslaught of opposition to HB 2, the furniture market may have put that funding in jeopardy...

http://rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/One-Click-Reading/Article/NC-Restrooms-Same-As-They-Ever-Were/-3/6/1126
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More from John and Roy;

Most of what I’ve read in the mainstream media about the whole bathroom brouhaha has been either wrong or based on faulty information.

...the majority of people agree with HB2, whether they know it or not.

Apparently not, now including Art Pope, John Hood and Pat McCrory etc... 

...The debate has little to do with transgender people using one restroom or shower or the other.  That’s a smokescreen.  The issue is what is set out in the Charlotte ordinance – whether our society wants to have gender-neutral facilities or facilities segregated by biological sex.

Not really

Charlotte’s ordinance required all bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, saunas, everything except maybe OB-GYN examination rooms, to be gender neutral.

Not really

...The reason the opponents of HB2 are trying to make it sound like transgender people are being discriminated against is political.  The people out protesting may believe the issue is about transgender people, but it appears the folks calling the shots want gender-neutral bathrooms.  They want all of us to act like there is no difference between men and women – wake up one day and be a woman and the next day be a man.  There is the problem of biological differences, but they ignore the fact that men and women are physically different.

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/Columns/Article/Weekly-Hammer-May-19/-3/7/1214

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016; A few questions for the City of Charlotte concerning HB2

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-few-questions-for-city-of-charlotte.html
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More from John and Roy, which the News and Record didn't have the guts to call them out on;

"...The law treats all people the same.  

No it doesn't and it's not enforceable

What HB2 establishes is that in North Carolina people are required to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex.  The Charlotte ordinance – which Charlotte did not have the authority to pass...

Not really, otherwise the state could have just sued Charlotte,

but they didn't

Since transgender is not defined, this would have allowed men to use the women’s restroom and women to use the men’s restroom.  In effect, all restrooms and locker rooms would be gender neutral.

Not true 

Blatant lie not identified by the News and Record

HB2 allows any business including the High Point furniture market to have gender-neutral restrooms if they so desire.  The decision is left up to the owner of the business.

,,,Vaughan allowed state Rep. John Blust, who is a candidate in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District, to speak first and gave him some additional time to explain what the state statute he voted for did.

Blust said that the topic was one that he was almost embarrassed to talk about in public, but that the state had been forced to regulate the behavior of people in bathrooms.  He said, “it seems common sense that everyone use the bathroom based on their anatomy.” Blust said, “Charlotte did not have the statutory authority to do what it did.”

Not really

...Blust was allowed to start again and said, “As the parent of a young daughter, I’m not willing to have her, her classmates, teammates and friends, go into the girls locker room and undress in front of someone with the male anatomy.” 

Which wouldn't happen in real life,

just like it doesn't happen now in real life

...The legislators held public hearings and heard everyone who signed up to speak on the bill before it was passed.

Bullshit, and John Hammer and Roy Carroll know it, 

and so does Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, 

Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record, 

who committed journalistic malpractice by not pointing it out,

meaning they are just as at fault as John, Roy, Art Pope etc... 

for the economic mess our state has found itself to be in

...Chris Hardin, a candidate in the Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District, got shouted down by opponents to HB2 several times.  He said the law was not about discrimination but about common sense.  He said that allowing the Charlotte ordinance to stand would have had a detrimental effect on law enforcement.

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/City/Article/Transgender-Talk-Gets-Raucous/-3/18/1141

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And again from John Hammer and Roy Carroll, which wasn't reported by the News and Record;

"Rep. John Blust of Greensboro, a candidate for the 13th Congressional District seat, said nobody in Raleigh was talking about HB2.  He said, “I haven’t said anything about changing or repealing anything.”

Really?

Blust said that he was completely misquoted in the article and what he had actually said was that he hadn’t heard anyone say anything about amending the bill so he couldn’t comment on it.  ...Blust said, “I don’t even like to show a blink of an eye over this.”...

Rep. Jon Hardister from Greensboro, who is quoted extensively in the article, said the quotes were technically accurate but taken out of context.  He said, “I was surprised when I saw the article, not because of my quotes but because of the way they were presented.”

...A constitutional amendment would make the law requiring separate bathrooms for men and women more powerful.

Sen. Trudy Wade of Greensboro said, “We have not discussed changing anything at all.”

Rep. Harry Warren from Salisbury, who, like Blust, is a candidate in the 13th Congressional District race, said, “I’m not in favor of going back at all on HB2.”

Apparently not anymore after these folks turned our state

into a national discrace

State Sen. Andrew Brock, also running for Congress in the 13th District, said, “HB2 is a great bill.”

Hardister said, “I’m not working with anyone to repeal the bill or to amend it, but discussions are taking place and there could be changes.”

Hardister said he thought it was possible the portion of the bill that made it more difficult to sue over discrimination in state court could be amended.

Hardister said that one of his complaints about the coverage of the bill in the N&R is that it made it sound like protections for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community had been repealed, which he said was misleading because “LGBT was not a protected class before HB2.”  He noted that the legislature had not made LGBT a protected class...

Jon Hardister was all in until Art Pope, John Hood and Pat McCrory 

threw him under a bus the other day

What the law does do is make it clear that local jurisdictions can’t create their own protected classes but that the decision on protected classes will be made at the state level."

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/City/Article/More-HB2-Misrepresentations/-3/18/1195

"theological malpractice that borders on heresy”

http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/allen-johnson-black-ministers-argue-for-bragging-rights-over-suffering/article_e627fa10-25c8-54d1-ad8a-45dfeb9a63b8.html

How much economic impact has this cost our state?

How many jobs have been lost?

How many others not from here think less of North Carolina now?

This should have been done differently on both sides.

We have made an amazing ass of ourselves.

It will cost our children.

The adults in the room have caused harm.

Still no reports from our press as to who has paid how much to whom to back the legislation.

Lies of omission as misinformation exponentially rises through the news cycle, while anyone who looks like they may not sell enough tickets to be profitable cancels in mediocre defiance splattered across the pages, increasing name recognition and followings.

Can you blame them?

Self inflicted wound this is, while the News and Record won't say how much the folks who wrote a letter backing DGI have received from City taxpayers, how much they have contributed to City Council members, that David Parish is on the selection committee and a Zack reference, that DGI hasn't publicly come up with where they are going to get the 'other' money, and won't release information requests concerning the subject for over a half a year.

Margaret Moffett and Steven Doyle won't report the news.

Jeff Sykes reported the David Parish connection and more information than our paper of record, and now some of the folks who enjoy skimming money from hired legislators aren't going to be publicly identified after a publicized letter in support of more corruption.

That means the press is either not read enough in Yes Weekly's case, or just as corrupt as the gentlemen on the take who are lobbying for their boy toy.
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DGI's revised proposal appears to be an attempted fraud on Greensboro's taxpayers

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/dgis-revised-proposal-appear-to-be.html

Greensboro's News and Record's Margaret Moffett misleads readers for Mike Barber and Nancy Vaughan

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/greensboros-news-and-records-margaret.html

News and Record's Margaret Moffett; "Council halts discussion on downtown contract amid allegation"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/news-and-records-margaret-moffett.html

"Key downtown property owners [who have received a great deal of Greensboro taxpayer money] back DGI for contract" [for their lobbyist, Zack Matheny]

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/key-downtown-property-owners-who-have.html

Tony Wilkins is going to have lunch with David Parrish and Zack Matheny before he votes for DGI's contract on the 7th

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/tony-wilkins-is-going-to-have-lunch_24.html

DGI Contract Scandal Goes Full Retard, Corrupt and Reprehensible

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/dgi-contract-scandal-goes-full-retard.html

As Mike Barber's First Tee of the Triad receives money and benefits from both the City of Greensboro and Jim Melvin's Bryan Foundation, Mr. Barber needs to recuse himself from the DGI mess

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/as-mike-barbers-first-tee-of-triad.html

On DGI at this evening's Greensboro City Council Meeting; This is what non-transparency looks like

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-dgi-at-this-evenings-greensboro-city.html

4/15/16; Still no big money for McCrory and friends since HB2; Click on the links to see what has happened since

"...HB2 had four primary sponsors, all Republicans, and ahead of McCrory’s Tuesday announcement, the most vocal of those, Rep. Dan Bishop of Mecklenburg County, did not return calls inquiring about who pushed for that provision.

Rep. Bob Steinburg also did not respond to inquiries, but Rep. Julia Howard, of Davie and Forsyth counties, said the language was crafted by state lawmakers.

“There were eight of us that worked on the House side and there were I think eight that worked on the Senate side,” Howard said. “It was just a collaboration of the eight members from the House, eight from the Senate that pulled the language together.”

Another sponsor, Rep. Paul Stam, of Wake County, said he knew “a lot of the source of the bill, but not the source of that one sentence.”...

...What is technically true and what is pragmatic for a fired employee bringing suit on a race-discrimination claim don’t move in lockstep.

Under the current law ushered in by HB2, employees can still file a claim at their county courthouse under the federal law, “but no employer would ever leave that federal statutory claim in state court,” Clarke said.

They would request to have it removed to federal court, a legal maneuver that gives them a financial edge, Clarke said. Federal cases are more costly, and a company that has both cash flow and insurance isn’t facing the financial pinch of an employee who might be jobless and feeding a family.

“It sends a really bad message about who we are,” Clarke said. “North Carolina’s the first state to eliminate these basic discrimination rights under state law, which is a pretty ugly distinction, and now we’re only the second state with Mississippi to not have workplace protections under state law on these fundamental categories.”

Fired employees can also seek federal discrimination protections through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but those claims must be filed within 180 days, as opposed to the three years formerly allowed under North Carolina statute.

In fiscal year 2014, about 4,000 people filed a claim though the EEOC in North Carolina, but it’s not practical for many employees, said Eric Doggett, an employment attorney and chairperson of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, an organization of legal professionals that seeks to protect rights for people.

Workplace discrimination is often just the beginning of a series of traumas, he said, and the six-month federal time frame isn’t always enough time for a potential plaintiff to begin legal action.

“They get fired, they get walked out the door, and they get traumatized again because they have no income. They try to get unemployment, but the employer fights unemployment and they are going through the fight and appeals to get their unemployment pay,” he said. “They’re trying to feed their kids. They got cut off from medical benefits. As they’re dealing with all these things, they have 180 days to file their claims with the EEOC, or they lose their federal claims forever. A lot of people don’t understand they have to do it, and it doesn’t become important to them until they need it.”

The venues are also far-flung. The 19 westernmost counties, for example, are served by one federal courthouse, which is in Asheville.

Some fired employees might not realize they have a discrimination claim until after the federal window has closed, said Asheville employment attorney Jessica Leaven.

An older employee or a pregnant woman might not know they were replaced by a younger worker or one without a newborn until that window has closed, shuttering them from discrimination claims..."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2016/04/14/origin-hb2-civil-action-unclear/82977072/
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Campaign Finance Results for Committee: PAT MCCRORY COMM

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-AIYGP3-C-001&OGID=11869

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: PHILIP E BERGER

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C0854N-C-001&OGID=1159

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: FRIENDS OF TIM MOORE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C1652N-C-001&OGID=1947

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: FRIENDS OF TRUDY WADE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-V4HE73-C-002&OGID=22377

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: COMM TO ELECT JOHN FAIRCLOTH

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C1332N-C-002&OGID=16978

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: JOHN BLUST CAMPAIGN

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C1805N-C-001&OGID=2095

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: JON HARDISTER FOR NC HOUSE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-2JNO5T-C-001&OGID=17017

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: BOB STEINBURG FOR NC HOUSE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-SPPM3Y-C-002&OGID=22442

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: STAM FOR HOUSE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C1973N-C-001&OGID=2246

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=H&nUserID=309

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: JULIA C HOWARD FOR HOUSE 

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-C2019N-C-001&OGID=2294

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/membersByDistrict.pl?sChamber=H&nDistrict=79

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: BISHOP FOR SENATE

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-I1750P-C-001&OGID=26591

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=H&nUserID=698

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: COMM TO ELECT CHAD BAREFOOT

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-W37ZPR-C-001&OGID=22085

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=S&nUserID=369

RH Barringer, Nido Qubein and Roy Carroll's political contributions to North Carolina Representative John Faircloth, a bigot who voted to discriminate against NC employees

Nido hasn't asked for his money back, 

so he must have been for the legislation

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_image.aspx?DID=194976

Roy Carroll is a known bigot,
as evidenced by John Hammer and the Rhino's defense of HB2

Proof Marty Kotis is all in on hate and bigotry in North Carolina with John Blust, who voted for and defended HB2

https://www.facebook.com/events/208532276182594/

Marty owns Darryl's

Marty backs John Blust, Dan Forest. Trudy Wade, John Faircloth, Jon Hardister, Phil Berger and Pat McCrory, who used a self serving bigoted political stunt to eliminate thousands of jobs in North Carolina to get reelected

Marty is a member of the Board of Governors of the UNC system

Marty owns the building where Guilford County's Republican party has it's offices

This means Marty backed HB2

Marty backed a bill which make it easier to fire his own employees

Marty gave money to about all of City Council

By having the Blust event, Marty Kotis is backing discrimination and bigotry in our community

If any City Council members take any more money from Marty, or have their signs on his properties, or ads on his billboard, they are just as guilty as Marty and Tony Wilkins

Most of North Carolina's 'conservatives' have been played for fools by Pat McCrory and the legislature.

There is no way to enforce HB2, as there are no punishments for violations.

Gregory F. Murphy, MD, North Carolina Republican Representing District 9 said “I think it was one to either send a symbolic statement or a real statement across the state that this is an expected modicum of behavior for people in bathrooms, bath houses, locker rooms”, meaning the law doesn't have any teeth, meaning North Carolina's conservative leadership just played their constituents for suckers to get out the vote.

ECU professor Carmine Scavo said “The intent of this law was basically symbolic” and “I don’t think at the time that they passed it that they ever thought they were going to have to defend it or enforce it.”
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This issue has been manufactured so the conservative base would come out and howl, and succeed as evidenced by this thread among others. The negative ramifications and unintended consequences appear to not have been worth the price, as we are losing jobs, reputation and economic growth from a bogus initiative with blatant discrimination for women, older workers and others who have been harmed by the rest of the bill for a few crony capitalists who run North Carolina.

https://www.facebook.com/bill.flynn/posts/10205329845675239?comment_id=10205332653225426&reply_comment_id=10205335697301526&notif_t=feed_comment_reply&notif_id=1460942319191390

http://wncn.com/2016/04/08/ecu-professor-says-hb2-law-will-be-hard-to-enforce/
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"...State Rep. Paul Stam (R-Wake) was asked a straightforward question by a BBC interviewer last week: "You think it's OK for an employer to say I don't want to hire a gay employee?"

"Yes," said Stam.

Stam was one of the key architects of House Bill 2.

This is what Gov. Pat McCrory is defending: The right of employers in North Carolina to discriminate against gays, lesbians and transgender people, not only in employment but in providing public accommodation.

This is what lies at the heart of HB 2. Not the "bathroom issue." Not "grown men showering in front of little girls," which would have remained illegal under state law. McCrory sticks to those talking points, but he even misrepresents them as he did in today's response to Kathleen Parker where he wrote:

"These North Carolina values of privacy and equality came into conflict when the Charlotte City Council mandated that all local businesses and organizations allow men to use a woman’s restroom, locker room or shower facility."

That's misleading. His statement would lead readers to believe any man could use women's facilities.

The Charlotte ordinance made allowances for transgender people to use the facilities they are comfortable in.

Men showering or using locker rooms in front of little girls 

would have remained illegal under state law, 

therefore this is a bunch of propagandist garbage spewed by bigots at the state house

funded by folks like Marty Kotis and Roy Carroll

There's a difference."

http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/clark_off_the_record/mccrory-defends-discrimination/article_a00f7c22-056a-11e6-a4a0-27af2c8c0a11.html
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"Simple here, government has no authority to force an employer,
say a church for example, to hire or fire homosexuals.

I concur."

Bill Flynn
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"George...I would not hire a practicing homosexual either"

Mike Blackburn

Back story on HB2, explaining how Pat McCrory fell on his own sword provided by Phil Berger and friends

"...a panel appointed to work out differences on [a different] bill language between the House and Senate.

The committee was chaired by two Republican lawmakers from Wake County, Rep. Paul Stam and his former staffer and now state senator, Chad Barefoot.

Campaign Finance Results for Committee: COMM TO ELECT CHAD BAREFOOT

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_doc_results.aspx?ID=STA-W37ZPR-C-001&OGID=22085

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=S&nUserID=369

The committee took up competing versions of a bill about professional counseling and added unrelated, sweeping amendments that later re-emerged as key provisions of HB2. And it may explain why the “bathroom bill” oddly contains a provision on the minimum wage.

First introduced by at least Chad Barefoot and Paul Stam

...the rewritten [other] bill “seemed to overhaul a wide range of nondiscrimination ordinances, housing regulations and workplace regulations that some cities and counties have adopted.” The new version also barred the establishment of a local minimum wage.

...Democrats used a procedural tactic to get the wildly amended [other] bill [with the discrimination etc... in it] sent to the Rules Committee. And there, in their last act of legislative sanity, Republicans joined Democrats in a 14-7 vote to keep the bill off the House floor.

Who were the seven yes votes?

...the Charlotte ordinance gained new life because of a city council reconfigured by Charlotte’s local election last fall.

...Someone in Gov. Pat McCrory’s political camp saw the ordinance coming back and saw an opportunity. McCrory should vigorously oppose it on the basis that it granted transgender women who were born male access to women’s bathrooms and raised a security threat to women and girls. That stand would help the former moderate Charlotte mayor gain strength with skeptical conservatives and evangelicals.

Meanwhile, McCrory’s strong opposition would put his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Roy Cooper, in a no-win situation. He could join McCrory in opposing the ordinance, but that would cost him liberal support. Or Cooper could support it and risk turning off moderates.

McCrory went all-in on the bathroom aspect even before the Charlotte ordinance passed. He joined a lawsuit in Virginia in which he sided with local officials who are fighting a federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of a 16-year-old student. The lawsuit backed by the Obama administration seeks to allow transgender students to use the school bathroom that conforms to their gender identity. Cooper declined to get involved in the Virginia case. That prompted a Nov. 24 news release from Republican Senate leader Phil Berger headlined: “Shame on AG for putting politics above student safety.”

After Charlotte passed the ordinance with the transgender protection provision, the McCrory campaign began pressing Cooper to take a stand on it. Cooper eventually said that existing law covers any bathroom dangers and that he saw no need for a new law to block the ordinance.

...Those who thought they had backed Cooper into a corner didn’t realize that they were putting McCrory’s re-election chances into far greater jeopardy. In the haste and secrecy of the March special session, the get-Cooper bathroom gambit got combined with the Stam-Barefoot wish list [from the other failed bill]. The mixture was explosive. It blew up into a national story, chilled the state’s appeal to businesses, entertainers and tourists and has McCrory backpedaling while declaring no retreat.

Pat McCrory tried to use hate and corporate wishes to get reelected

to the detriment of North Carolina's work force protections

Phil Berger, Paul Stam, Chad Barefoot, Trudy Wade, John Faircloth, 

Jon Hardister, John Blust, Roy Carroll, Marty Kotis and friends 

were on board with the strategy of using hate and screwing poor, old etc... workers

to get themselves and Pat McCrory reelected

and Roy and Marty's employment costs to fall, thereby increasing their profits,

and Tony Wilkins is okay with it

Meanwhile, a decision in the Virginia case McCrory so pointedly joined is expected any day. If the plaintiffs prevail, North Carolina could be looking at a loss of billions of dollars in federal aid for violating the rights of transgender people. This is a situation in which Republican lawmakers and strategists thought they were being clever but did something as dumb as it will be costly."

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article72280037.html#storylink=cpy

"Governor Pat McCrory’s Executive Order 93 doesn’t fix or even put a band aid on HB 2." Meaning Pat McCrory lied to the public on March 25, 2016

"Executive Order 93 shows that McCrory was not truthful back on March 25, 2016, when he posed and answered this question: “Does this bill [HB 2] take away existing protections for individuals in North Carolina? Answer: No. In fact, for the first time in state history, this law establishes a statewide anti-discrimination policy in North Carolina which is tougher than the federal government’s.” At least until he pulls it down, this series of questions can be found here. In Executive Order 93, however, McCrory now admits this was not true: “I support and encourage the General Assembly to take all necessary steps to restore a State cause of action for wrongful discharge based on unlawful employment discrimination.”

McCrory...press release of March 28, 2016:

..."The non-discrimination policies in place today in cities like Raleigh, Greensboro and Asheville and in every business in North Carolina are the same as they were last month and last year.”

But;

...Executive Order 93 now also sees the need to step in and “affirm that private businesses, nonprofit employers and local governments may establish their own non-discrimination employment policies.”

...holding out an Executive Order as even capable of modifying contrary positions of legislation is deception of the worst sort. McCrory’s role was to veto HB 2 which he did not do. We live in a democracy where the executive branch doesn’t have dictatorial powers over the legislative branch. Where HB 2 prohibits it, the governor can’t simply change the law stripping power from local authorities by simply affirming for example that “local governments may establish their own non-discrimination employment policies.”

...The Executive Order also provides: “Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as an abrogation of any requirements otherwise imposed by applicable federal or state laws or regulations.”

Meaning the Executive Order doesn't mean anything

and he lied to the public on March 25, 2016

McCrory has forgotten our great state motto

“To be rather than to seem.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-lloyd/mccrorys-executive-order_b_9680722.html
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"...HB2 also effectively strips all enforcement mechanisms from state anti-discrimination employment law leaving anyone with an existing or future complaint without recourse within North Carolina.

Meaning Pat McCrory lied to the public on March 25, 2016

Many North Carolina citizens have already discovered this firsthand as their existing options disappeared overnight.

One of the least discussed aspects of the state’s new discrimination law is the fact that is strikes down an employee’s right to sue a company for wrongful termination.

Rick Copeland is in his 60s and was fired last March from his job as a vice president at BB&T’s office in Gastonia.

“I was the oldest guy making the most money,” Compton said.

...Compton filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

...“It was purely an age discrimination case,” he says.

But now with HB2, Compton can no longer file suit in state court.

Meaning Pat McCrory lied to the public on March 25, 2016

His only avenue is to go federal.

...“...the law virtually eliminated the North Carolina prohibition on discrimination based on, in Rick’s case, age, disability,” said attorney Josh Van Kampen. he added, “We immediately had to pickup a phone and call all of our clients and say they had just lost half their claims.”

Meaning Pat McCrory lied to the public on March 25, 2016

HB2 strips terminated employees’ rights to sue their former employer for discrimination  and wrongful termination claims based on protected class including race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex and handicap.

...HB2 specifically prohibits the residents of all our cities from filing a lawsuit based upon our state anti-discrimination statute. [SNIP]

...the vast majority of lawyers in North Carolina have never appeared in a federal court and do not understand the steps you must take to bring and win a federal discrimination claim. As a practical matter, many North Carolinians will not be able to fight against discriminatory firings.

...attorneys representing North Carolina citizens in employment cases within the federal system must wait until EEOC investigations complete (a requirement not present in the state system). The EEOC process can take anywhere from six months to two years to complete.

North Carolina may have successfully legislated a solution to a problem that didn’t exist (as no sexual assaults have ever occurred in any of the 200+ local governments with transgender protections for decades where the assailant was transgender or used trans-inclusive laws to attack women or children), but it effectively crippled itself economically in the process.

Whether it’s the millions in business the state is hemorrhaging daily or the legal limbo it gleefully placed its citizens in to placate corporate interests, North Carolina now stands as a shining beacon of far right Republican leadership and governance."

http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/04/hb2-harms-everyone-22612.html
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"...Under HB2, a transgender person who is anatomically a woman, but outwardly appears to be a man will be compelled by HB2 to use the woman's rest room. In waiving a false warning flag that the Charlotte ordinance would have given cover for a man to dress up as women to gain access to a woman's facility, HB2 has now made it so that we will now be assured to see men in women's bathrooms.

...How do we evaluate potential threats now that HB2 is the law? There's a guy in the women's restroom, do we call the cops to see if he is transgender man merely complying with the law or are we less able to assess real potential threats because HB2 requires certain people who look like men to use women's facilities?

For those who truly worry about privacy and security in bathrooms, Berger and his HB2 supporters haven't made you any safer, they have given you a false sense of security, but if you think it through, they have actually made bathrooms less safe—for everybody.

...If it were truly a threat to public safety to allow transgender people to use bathrooms that match their appearance, as Charlotte would have allowed, how could Berger have been so derelict and so irresponsible as to only apply the provisions of HB 2 to government bathrooms? If the “threat” is real then it absolutely, as a duty, would be incumbent upon lawmakers to apply to all bathrooms such as those in hotels, restaurants and churches. HB2 doesn't do that. Why not?

And what happens if someone breaks the laws of HB2?

Nothing. It's not a criminal statute. It's administrative. “Employees must wash hands” has more teeth. So concerned were the authors of HB2 with safety and stopping the perverts that those who violate HB2 face no repercussions.

Why? Because it's not a public safety issue. Existing laws already cover things like assaulting and molesting people. HB2 is a vehicle for Berger and his colleagues to agitate people. He's rattling our cages and that's it."

http://yesweekly.com/article-21210-hb2-agitates-fear-and-anger-for-political-gain.html

Who are the bigots who haven't asked for their political contributions back from Tony Wilkins?

Randolph County Megasite Real Estate Agent Sam Simpson hasn't yet;

Tony Wilkins' payoff for Sam Simpson's Megasite take

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/tony-wilkins-payoff-for-sam-simpsons.html

Meaning Sam Simpson is a bigot as well?

Why else would Sam continue to support political bigotry?

Does Sam Simpson, brother of golf's Web Simpson support HB2?

Is Web Simpson a bigot too?

Do Sam, Web and Tony believe North Carolina employers are better off being able to easily fire women if they get pregnant to keep company health insurance costs down?

Are Sam, Web and Tony for girls who look like guys getting harassed in women's bathrooms?

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/1700_WILKINS_TONY.PDF

Tony Wilkins isn't a 'conservative'

Tony Wilkins is for sale, just like the rest of Greensboro's City Council

If Sam Simpson doesn't ask for his money back, Sam Simpson is just as much of a bigot as Tony Wilkins is.

"Greensboro City Council to consider resolution against HB2" and Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan's conflict of interest and links

"At its regular meeting, the council will consider a resolution opposing House Bill 2. While such a resolution has no legal weight, a number of cities across the state are considering similar resolutions to express their opposition and draw greater attention to problems with the law."

My sympathies to those wronged,

but the issue raised concerns a conflict of interest of an elected official

who is supposed to represent all the haters and the lovers equally

and it appears as though there is a problem

"The new law will ...roll back the ability of the city to hold its contractors to the same standards.

The city’s Human Relations Commission will no longer have the authority to handle local non-discrimination claims filed for any reason, including race, age and religion.
The law also removes the ability to sue in state court for any form of employment discrimination, forcing those with claims to go through the more expensive and complicated federal court process."

Mayor and Council:

...What must be considered is if a conflict of interest exists 

either under N.C.G.S. §§160A-75 or 14-234, 

or the City of Greensboro’s Charter, or the City’s Conflict of Interest Policy.

...Direct or indirect benefits are considered under the City’s conflict of interest policy 

and typically involve financial interests for the Councilmember, 

his or her immediate family, their partner, 

or an organization which employs or is about to employ the member, family member or partner...

Mujeeb

S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan

CITY ATTORNEY

OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY

"Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who is also executive director of LGBT advocacy group Guilford Green Foundation, was a key speaker at the rally."

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/greensboro-city-council-to-consider-resolution-against-hb/article_3ef6b4f9-a14a-5988-97d0-a030c9a5af3c.html

If the state invalidated the ordinances,

how can Nancy Vaughan advocate for the reversal

if she is also serving as a paid lobbyist for an LBGT group?.

NC § 138A-36; ...no public servant...authorized to perform an official action requiring the exercise of discretion,
shall participate in an official action by the employing entity if the public servant
...may incur a reasonably foreseeable financial benefit
...which financial benefit would impair the public servant's independence of judgment
or from which it could reasonably be inferred
that the financial benefit would influence the public servant's participation in the official action.

...(c)        A public servant shall take appropriate steps
...to remove himself or herself to the extent necessary,
to protect the public interest and comply with this Chapter,
from any proceeding in which the public servant's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
due to the public servant's familial, personal, or financial relationship with a participant in the proceeding.

A participant includes (i) an ...employee, agent, officer, or director of a business,
organization, or group involved in the proceeding,
or (ii) an organization or group that has petitioned for rule making
or has some specific, unique, and substantial interest in the proceeding.

How can Nancy Vaughan respond as Greensboro's mayor

if she also is being paid to represent Greensboro's LBGTQ community?

On the possible motives to have voted for and/or signed HB2 into North Carolina law

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/on-possible-motives-to-have-voted-for_3.html

Interesting HB2 thread at Tony Wilkin's Facebook page

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/interesting-hb2-thread-at-tony-wilkins.html

Is Blue Cross and Shield of NC going to ask for their $5,100 back from HB2 enabler/bigot Senate Pro Tem Phil Berger?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/is-blue-cross-and-shield-of-nc-going-to.html

HB2, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/hb2-good-bad-and-ugly.html

If Bank Of America's PAC gave Pat McCrory $5,100 on 2/5/2016, should they as for their money back?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/if-bank-of-americas-pac-gave-pat.html

Is Koury Corp's Stephen Showfety (Koury Convention Center and Grandover CEO) going to ask Phil Berger for his money back?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/is-koury-corps-stephen-showfety-koury.html

Roy Carroll's John Hammer on HB2; "NC Restrooms: Same As They Ever Were"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/roy-carrolls-john-hammer-on-hb2-nc.html

A few Trudy Wade Campaign Contributors who haven't asked for their money back as far as I know

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-few-trudy-wade-campaign-contributors.html 

Why did Fidelity investments contribute money to North Carolina Senator and Kingpin Phil Berger on 3/17/2016? For HB2?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/why-did-fidelity-investments-contribute.html

Is Greensboro's Don Brady going to ask for his Jon Hardister contribution back, or is he one of the businessmen supporting HB2?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-greensboros-don-brady-going-to-ask.html

HB2; Pat McCrory, Phil Berger, Jon Hardister, John Faircloth, John Blust and Trudy Wade appear to be psychopaths

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/hb2-pat-mccrory-phil-berger-jon.html

Bigots; North Carolina State Senators Trudy Wade and Phil Berger; Bigots; NC Representatives John Blust, Jon Hardister and John Faircloth

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/bigots-north-carolina-state-senators.html

“We didn’t see this coming,” Republican House member John Hardister told Triad City Beat." after voting for HB2, which Brian Cleary didn't mention in the article

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/we-didnt-see-this-coming-republican.html

Greensboro's News and Record covering for John Blust and John Hardister who voted for the anti-gay North Carolina legislation

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/greensboros-news-and-record-covering.html

Joan Monaghan Williams‎ to Nancy Barakat Vaughan; March 25 on the Transgender issues

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/joan-monaghan-williams-to-nancy-barakat.html

Today @PayPal announced they will NOT open a 400-job, $3.6M center after all thanks to @PatMcCroryNC's #BigotryLaw https://t.co/fJWCDcRe1h

— BackwardNC (@BackwardNC) April 5, 2016

Folks disagree about business incentives to create jobs in NC.But McCrory created a disincentive for companies by signing HB2 #ncga #ncpol

— Fitzsimon (@Fitzsimon) April 5, 2016

#NC claims that #WeAreNotThis, but the polls say that a large percentage support discrimination. #BoycottNC pic.twitter.com/Tpk1gmmbad

— Boycott NC (@BoycottNC) April 5, 2016

Greensboro City Councilmember Nancy Hoffmann's Samet payoff for sliding $5,482,424.00 to Samet Corporation #ncpol https://t.co/uRsLR2f9t7

— Abner Doon (@ghartzman) April 5, 2016

These HB2 words shall be enshrined in the annals of legislated discrimination from the state of North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/dVPa532fey

— Senator Ben Clark (@SenatorClark) April 4, 2016

How to purchase Mayor Nancy Vaughan and get a $5,482,424.00 Greensboro taxpayer funded project, by Samet #ncpol https://t.co/yz4QRaZX5E

— Abner Doon (@ghartzman) April 4, 2016

McCrory release "North Carolina Empowers Women Veterans" but women fired b/c of gender can't sue in state court thanks to HB2 #ncga #ncpol

— Fitzsimon (@Fitzsimon) April 1, 2016

Lionsgate moves production from NC to Canada b/c of #HB2 @PatMcCroryNC @SenatorBerger @WNCN @wcnc @ABC11_WTVD @MSNBC @CNN @RaleighReporter

— BackwardNC (@BackwardNC) April 1, 2016

@NRO @SenatorBerger All Lies. Good job rolling back protections for vets & disabled, & taking NC back to 1800's. #WeAreNotThis #boycottNC

— Joni (@chanceyjoan) April 1, 2016

.@chanceyjoan @NRO @SenatorBerger pic.twitter.com/zZRRxdKeMc

— BackwardNC (@BackwardNC) April 2, 2016

North Carolina's anti-LGBT bill guts workplace discrimination protections for virtually everyone: https://t.co/9tQ0lACLb9 #WeAreNotThis

— NWLC (@nwlc) April 1, 2016

On the possible motives to have voted for and/or signed HB2 into North Carolina law

Maybe McCrory is using it as a job creation initiative for slave like labor jobs.

Bring back some of the slave jobs from China to North Carolina's factory owners who fund him.

Duke Power/Energy probably wouldn't mind making more money from more profitable businesses
who don't have to pay more for labor than absolutely necessary.

North Carolina may become an abusive employer magnet if the issue is affirmed by the election.

I suppose congratulations will be in order.

Hb2 will be good for fields of work exploiting women.

Good for business owners who like relations with the help.

Easier to fire pregnant women who slow down productivity.

McCrory's healthcare industry donors would make more money
from more poor, uneducated low paid workers paying more out of pocket for healthcare
from parasitic doctors and insurance companies.

Bank of America is saying they oppose the legislation
without asking for their Pat McCrory PAC and other donations back,
meaning they are actually for it, while keeping up appearances.

Maybe they get an automobile manufacturer now that they dissolved North Carolina's employment law risks.

Big money won't have to pay maternity care leave and save on insurance costs
by firing pregnant women without cause before birth.

Before birth.

It's the American way.

Why did Fidelity investments contribute money to North Carolina Senator and Kingpin Phil Berger on 3/17/2016? For HB2?

McCrory has little leverage now to do the right thing – even if he wanted to. 

That power resides with Senate leader Phil Berger, 

who like many lawmakers only has a conservative district back home to answer to.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/peter-st-onge/article69262067.html#storylink=cpy

Fmr LLC Political Action Committee (Fidelity PAC)

Donors
Edward Johnson III   CEO of Fidelity Investments
4 contributions ⋅ $16000 ('94→'02)
Abigail Johnson   Fidelity president
5 contributions ⋅ $15000 ('96→'10)

Fidelity Investments is 100% behind Phil Berger's bigotry,

otherwise why would they give him any money?

John (Jack) F Remondi   CEO, Navient Corp
21 contributions ⋅ $6500 ('00→'07)
Walter C Donovan   Chief Investment Officer and Senior Managing Director, Putnam...
2 contributions ⋅ $3500 ('02→'03)
Robert C Pozen   Former Chairman, MFS Investment Management
4 contributions ⋅ $3500 ('94→'00)

Do you think these folks are going to ask for their money back?

Stephanie Markiewicz   Lobbyist, ATT and Fidelity
14 contributions ⋅ $3500 ('09→'10)

If they don't ask for their money back, 

how can it be construed other than tacit support for Berger's bigotry?

Jeffrey N Vinik   Founder, Vinik Asset Management
2 contributions ⋅ $3000 ('94→'95)

http://littlesis.org/org/32701/Fmr_LLC_Political_Action_Committee_(Fidelity_PAC)

Phil's $1,000 cut;

http://cf.ncsbe.gov/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_image.aspx?DID=196845

What other fine political pawns are these Wall Street types funding and why?