How much is this going to cost North Carolina?; "NBA pulls All-Star Game from NC citing HB2"

“Our week-long schedule of All-Star events and activities is intended to be a global celebration of basketball, our league, and the values for which we stand, and to bring together all members of the NBA community – current and former players, league and team officials, business partners, and fans.  While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2."

This is going to cost us another round of economic pain

“The sports and entertainment elite, Attorney General Roy Cooper and the liberal media have for months misrepresented our laws and maligned the people of North Carolina simply because most people believe boys and girls should be able to use school bathrooms, locker rooms and showers without the opposite sex present." McCrory said.

How many jobs have these folks robbed our state of?

..."Today’s news is further evidence that HB2 is an economic disaster for North Carolina,” said Gerrick Brenner, executive director of Progress NC Action. “Over $100 million in economic activity is leaving our state because of Gov. McCrory’s discriminatory law, on top of the hundreds of jobs and millions in tourism dollars that our state has already lost over HB2."

http://wncn.com/2016/07/21/nba-on-brink-of-pulling-all-star-game-from-nc-citing-hb2-reports-say/
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CNBC: NC ranks No. 5 as state for business but HB2 hurts https://t.co/RrSmU5rmlT #wral

— WRAL NEWS in NC (@WRAL) July 12, 2016

NBA cancelling all-star game,costing Charlotte area $100 million.Wonder if McCrory will keep saying HB2 not hurting NC economy? #ncga #ncpol

— Fitzsimon (@Fitzsimon) July 21, 2016

Right now, some press aide in the Gov's office is writing one hell of a whopper. #HB2

— Kirk Ross (@ludkmr) July 21, 2016

The @NBA moved the #AllStarGame because of #HB2 -- so it makes business sense not to be in NC. That's scary for our economy @PatMcCroryNC

— Brad Caldwell (@brad_caldwell) July 21, 2016

House Bill 2 is an absolute Gem. Cop that you filthy fags, about time society didn't give in to you queers. #HB2 #NoRoomForQueersOrMexicans

— James Ward (@Wardy5723) July 21, 2016

Disappointed in NC right now with all this HB2 bs and what it's doing to this state.Does the government not realize how this impacts us?

— Gracie Pryor (@GracePryor) July 21, 2016

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

"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

"Bottom line: Mrs. Clinton violated the Federal Records Act." = HB2, as there are no penalties

“Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service, and because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act,” the audit report said.

...anyone who violates this law (and leaves office) will face zero consequences. That’s because it is a civil law, not a criminal law, and penalties only apply to current federal employees. Employees, like Clinton and Powell, who leave office, can skirt punishment.

...“There are absolutely no penalties provided by law for this misconduct,” Metcalfe said. He would know, Metcalfe was the founding director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy. He was essentially  “the federal government’s chief information-disclosure ‘guru.’”

“This report unsurprisingly finds gross violations of the Federal Record Act’s requirements by then-Secretary Clinton and her personal staff, not to mention inexplicably poor oversight by State’s top records-management officials as they simply let her do as she pleased,” Metcalfe told LawNewz.com,  “Even taking a charitable view, it serves as an indictment of Ms. Clinton’s conduct on the civil side of her ledger, documenting misconduct that would surely lead to dismissal were she still employed there.”

...While there are consequences if you are found to have intentionally destroyed federal records, the audit did not make a finding that this happened.

...Ryan is quick to condemn what she did as “deliberately” breaking the rules. But, if it’s so bad, why aren’t politicians like Ryan pushing for sanctions that would hold her (and other politicians) accountable even after they leave office?"

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/everyone-is-missing-the-most-troubling-part-of-hillary-clinton-email-audit/

https://informedvote2016.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/do-i-really-need-to-worry-about-hillarys-emails-yes-she-will-be-indicted-full-form/

"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

North Carolina Senator Phil Berger, President Pro Tempore, may be sexually deviant, explaining his HB2 actions

Considering the long list of incidents at the national level below and the blatant pandering to North Carolina's religious right by Senator Berger, it stands to chance Phil may have some kind of sexuality disorder.

As fixated on Men in Women's or vice versa bathroom, locker and shower homophobia and discrimination to the extent in which Berger engaged, it may make sense the President Pro Tempore suffers from some inner demons, not unlike others who have risen to similar heights of power.

If about 5% of the population is gay, there may be about a 5% Phil Berger is too.

If about 0.5% of the population may be transgender, the same chance or perhaps better exists that Phil Berger has experienced transgender thoughts.

Considering the company of fine upstanding individuals who have deviated from the norm within the political establishment over time, there may be something unknown about Phil Berger's declared sexual identity.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=senate&nUserID=64

David Dreier, Representative (R-CA), voted against a number of gay rights proposals, but was outed concerning his relationship with his chief of staff. (2004)

Larry Craig (R-ID) a US Senator for 18 years, was apprehended and arrested on June 11, 2007, with a charge of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the International Airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Ed Schrock, Representative (R-VA), announced he would abort his 2004 attempt for a third term in Congress after allegedly being caught on tape soliciting sex from a male prostitute after having aggressively opposed various gay-rights issues in Congress, such as same-sex marriage and gays in the military.

Mark Foley, Representative (R-FL), resigned his House seat when accused of sending sexually explicit e-mails to teenage male congressional pages. He was replaced by Tim Mahoney. (2006)

Eric Massa, U.S. Representative (D-NY), resigned to avoid an ethics investigation into his admitted groping and tickling of multiple male staffers. He later stated on Fox News, "not only did I grope [a staffer], I tickled him until he couldn't breathe," (2010)[112][113]

Robert Bauman, Representative (R-MD), was charged with attempting to solicit sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute.[39] Upon completing an alcoholism rehabilitation program, the charges were dropped. Bauman apologized to voters for his indiscretions but was defeated for re-election.

Jon Hinson Representative (R-MS), resigned after being charged with attempted sodomy for performing oral sex on a male employee of the Library of Congress.

Fred Richmond, Representative (D-NY): Charges that he solicited sex from a 16-year-old boy were dropped after he submitted to counseling.

David I. Walsh, Senator (D-MA), was accused of visiting a male brothel frequented by Nazi spies in Brooklyn

Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), U.S. Representative. In 2012, it was revealed that DesJarlais, a physician at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, while running on a pro-life platform, made his ex-wife have two abortions, and tried to persuade a mistress who was his patient, into an abortion as well. DesJarlais has admitted under oath to at least six affairs, including two patients and his staffers.

Strom Thurmond, Senator (R-SC), noted segregationist, fathered a child, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with a 15-year-old African American in 1925 who was employed by the Thurmond family.

Barney Frank, Representative (D-MA), was reprimanded by the House for fixing 33 parking tickets for Steve Gobie, a male escort who lived with Frank and claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank's apartment without his knowledge.

James Henry Hammond, U.S. Representative and later Senator from SC of the (Nullifier Party),[18] engaged in a homosexual relationship with a college friend, pursued what he called "a little dalliance" with his teenage nieces, and had sexual relationships with female slaves including a girl aged 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States

Could this be the reason Senator Phil Berger signed off on a law with no criminal penalties?

North Carolina District 59 Republican State Representative Jon Hardister may be transgender/transtesticle

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?sChamber=H&nUserID=645

Representative Jon Hardister appears to have a feminine/effeminate appearance

Jon may be a girl dressed as a guy, and may be in violation of North Carolina law when he uses men's bathrooms, lockers and showers

Hardister may have been a girl who became a guy

Jon may also be a guy who may want to be a boy, who is still a girl 

To be fair, the public needs to see Jon Hardister's genitalia and birth certificate

Affidavits from Jon's parents and significant other should also be forthcoming, as well as from Jon's friends who have seen his junk within the last 12 months

Jon may also be homogeneous 

According to North Carolina state law, if Jon is a girl, he must use the women's facilities at North Carolina's legislature

Call the genitalia police if you see Representative Hardister anywhere near a public restroom

If necessary, prevent Jon from using the men's restroom until this issue has been resolved

If anyone has any knowledge or inkling that Jon physically became a woman after being a man and is using men's restrooms, contact your legislative representative to file a report, as his actions are illegal under state law

If Jon physically became a man after being a woman and is using women's restrooms, ask for proof of biological sex identification at the point of bodily excretion

North Carolina's children are not safe until their parents/grandparents who don't bother taking their own children/grandchildren into public bathrooms know the truth about Jon Hardister and all the other sexually ambiguous looking state legislators actual organs

Here's who has given money to what could be a pretty seriously sicko State Rep;

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

Seems like these folks have no idea what kind or person Jon Hardister really is

Where is the press? And why does HB2 include no criminal penalties? Was it to prevent Jon from going to jail?

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

The Letter Senator Phil Berger Doesn't Want You To See

North Carolina State Senator Phil Berger never bothered to answer my question when I asked:

"Mr Berger, What is the penalty for violating the bathroom portion of HB2? Thanks in advance for answering my question."

Senator Berger never answered my question. My guess is he is now wishing this whole thing had never happened, especially now that Greensboro's Eric Fink, a professor at Elon Law, has decided to challenge him in what would have been an unopposed run for office.

Mr Berger wanted you to believe that North Carolina's women and children are unsafe in public restrooms. And to make his case he wrote a letter dated February 24, 2016 to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper expressing his views.

Now to be clear, I don't believe people are safe in public restrooms either. In 1971, as a 15 year old high school student at James B Dudley High School in Greensboro, NC, I was beaten almost to death by a gang (8-10 total) of young men from off campus for reasons I've yet to learn in over 40 years. I was found lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood by then Assistant Principal Bradley.

Rape and peeping aren't the only things that happen in public restrooms. In case you are wondering it was the boys room in the South Annex of the school. I was where I was supposed to be.

Because of that and other violent incidents I have suffered from PTSD for over 40 years. PTSD is what you can expect for anyone who suffers any sort of traumatic incident inside a public restroom. That is, if they are lucky. If they are not lucky it could be far worse.

In his letter Senator Berger wrote:

 "We have grave concerns over the recent changes made to Charlotte’s Code of Ordinances by the Charlotte City  Council. The  most concerning change allows men to share bathrooms  and showers with women  and young  girls in  places  of  public  accommodation,  violating existing criminal law. "

Now if true that is indeed very troubling. I don't think that anyone wants to see grown men showering with little girls with the exception of some perverts. By the way, while the Senator says the Charlotte Code of Ordinances violates existing criminal law he doesn't note which, if any laws are actually violated. Now considering that Senator Berger is a licensed, practicing attorney at law in North Carolina writing an official document to the NC Attorney General that seems... Well, troubling.

The Senator goes on to say:

"The brazenness of this policy decision is shocking, and your silence on the matter is  deafening. Until  the General  Assembly can  act, it  is  your  duty,  as  our  state’s  top  law enforcement official, to ensure that Charlotte follows the law."

You can bet it's shocking. If my son were still alive I'd be concerned for his safety. In his letter Senator Berger spends the next several paragraphs comparing Charlotte's new ordnance to Charlotte's old ordinance. Obviously the Senator is unhappy but he recommends no real course of action. He cites NC. S.M.S,  196 N.C. App. 170 (2009) (affirming adjudication of second-degree trespass after boy entered girls’ locker  room  that  was  marked  accordingly). but in that very case, while the court ruled against the defendant the court also noted that the school should have never brought the kid to trial in the first place and had within its means the disciplinary ability to handle the case outside of the courts.

(Oops, there's another one for the anti- School Resource Officers movement.)

You see, as I pointed out previously in HB2 Opinion Vs Fact there are no existing laws preventing men from walking into women's restrooms in North Carolina. There should be but such laws do not exist. I provided all the documentation necessary to prove my point.

NC Senator Phil Berger knew it too. He admired it in his letter to Roy Cooper when he wrote:

"A  patchwork  of  criminal  law  simply  will  not  do. We  cannot  have  acts  that  are  criminal  in  one city or county but not in the others.  The General Statutes expressly prohibit municipalities from passing  ordinances  that violate the  general  criminal  laws. See N.C.  Gen.  Stat.  §  160A-174. In other  North  Carolina  cities,  a  man’s  use  of  a  designated  women’s  facility  subjects  him  to
potential criminal prosecution. "

But wait, what about N.C.  Gen.  Stat.  §  160A-174, it prohibits men from going into women's restrooms, right? N.C.  Gen.  Stat.  §  160A-174 in it's entirety:

"§ 160A-174.  General ordinance-making power.

(a)        A city may by ordinance define, prohibit, regulate, or abate acts, omissions, or conditions, detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of its citizens and the peace and dignity of the city, and may define and abate nuisances.

(b)        A city ordinance shall be consistent with the Constitution and laws of North Carolina and of the United States. An ordinance is not consistent with State or federal law when:

(1)        The ordinance infringes a liberty guaranteed to the people by the State or federal Constitution;

(2)        The ordinance makes unlawful an act, omission or condition which is expressly made lawful by State or federal law;

(3)        The ordinance makes lawful an act, omission, or condition which is expressly made unlawful by State or federal law;

(4)        The ordinance purports to regulate a subject that cities are  expressly forbidden to regulate by State or federal law;

(5)        The ordinance purports to regulate a field for which a State  or federal statute clearly shows a legislative intent to provide a complete and integrated regulatory scheme to the exclusion of local regulation;

(6)        The elements of an offense defined by a city ordinance are identical to the elements of an offense defined by State or federal law.

The fact that a State or federal law, standing alone, makes a given act, omission, or condition unlawful shall not preclude city ordinances requiring a higher standard of conduct or condition. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)"

That's right, Charlotte couldn't and didn't make a law that violated State law because there was no such state law. The City of Raleigh has it's own municipal law:

"Sec. 13-2015. - TOILET FACILITIES; USE BY SEX FOR WHICH NOT INTENDED.

On public or on private property used by the public or patrons of a business establishment where separate toilet facilities are provided for the use of different sexes and such facilities are conspicuously labeled to give notice of the sex for which the facility is set apart, it shall be unlawful for a member of one sex to enter or use a facility provided for members of the opposite sex. Provided this section shall not be construed to prevent the inspection of toilet facilities by the owner or person in charge thereof or the designated agent of either, nor to prevent the performance of janitorial services therein by the person or persons designated to perform such services when members of the opposite sex are not present"

Other North Carolina cities and counties have their own municipal laws as well but by Phil Berger's own admission in his letter to NC Attorney General Roy Cooper, Berger wrote:

"A  patchwork  of  criminal  law  simply  will  not  do. We  cannot  have  acts  that  are  criminal  in  one city or county but not in the others."

The Senator also wrote:

"In other  North  Carolina  cities,  a  man’s  use  of  a  designated  women’s  facility  subjects  him  to potential criminal prosecution. "

Thereby noting State law was and remains inadequate as North Carolina is dependent on a "patchwork" of municipal laws.

But when it came time to pass a law Republican Senator Phil Berger and the rest of the conservative North Carolina House and Senate chose to pass House Bill HB2, a "law" with no criminal penalties for men who go into women's restrooms.

Now for those of you still pointing fingers at Roy Cooper-- what was he to do? The job of the attorney general is to enforce the law but not even Senator Phil Berger, himself a licensed, practicing North Carolina attorney at law can tell you what law was broken. It's the job of the State House and Senate to make laws, Phil Berger even admitted that in his letter as well:

"Until  the General Assembly can  act, it  is  your  duty,  as  our  state’s  top  law enforcement official, to ensure that Charlotte follows the law."

What law? The General Assembly had to meet in special session to pass a new law to strike down Charlotte's new city ordinance. Berger was just playing the blame game along with Sen. Buck Newton, Sen. Shirley Randleman, Sen. Warren Daniel and the rest who jumped on the pee-pee bandwagon hoping to score a few more votes from scared voters.

Don't believe me? Click here to read the letter for yourself.

We need a law. We need a law that protects people. We need a law that protects all people without discriminating against anyone. And what we don't need are politicians passing new laws under the guise of protecting people while secretly taking away other rights at the same time.

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