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/
.
.

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

We are being lied to; According to the NC Commerce Department, there were 5,845 layoffs announced through all of 2015, but 7,453 through May, 2016

There were 3,327 mass layoffs in North Carolina through May of last year 

and 7,453 so far this year, and our news industry 

and our politicians won't tell anyone

http://www.nccommerce.com/Portals/11/Documents/Reports/WARN/warn-2015.pdf#search="warn notice"

http://www.nccommerce.com/Portals/11/Documents/Reports/WARN/Warn.pdf

Meanwhile in la la land, these are their talking points;

http://www.nccommerce.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zJStDFI4T8U%3d&tabid=4337&mid=8740

Do you believe it?

Announced mass layoffs have doubled year over year
and the public is fed platitudes from the establishment

Think the Rhino will tell anyone?

The Triad and Triangle Business Journal won't and hasn't;

Once again Triangle Business Journal Staff Writer Lauren K. Ohnesorge misleads readers and the public on North Carolina layoff statistics


http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/06/once-again-triangle-business-journal.html

"Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust", "Hitler, days after he took power in 1933, imposed a ban on all homosexual organizations", HB2 and #wearenotthis

"He ordered raids on places where homosexuals gathered, culminating in the ransacking of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and the permanent exile of its director, Magnus Hirschfeld. Thousands of volumes from the institute’s library were tossed into a bonfire. The stripping of these Germans’ civil rights was largely cheered by the public and the German churches.

Phil Berger and Tim Moore

But it legitimated tactics, outside the law, that would soon be employed against others. Adams said homosexuals would also be the first “social deviants” singled out and disempowered by the Christian right, but not the last."

https://carolinaundersiege.wordpress.com/
.
.
"Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims.

Chad Barefoot and Paul Stam

...More than one million gay Germans were targeted, of whom at least 100,000 were arrested and 50,000 were serving prison terms as "convicted homosexuals".  Hundreds of European gay men living under Nazi occupation were castrated under court order.

Pat McCrory and Trudy Wade

...homosexuals within the Nazi Party itself were murdered. The Gestapo compiled lists of homosexuals, who were compelled to sexually conform to the "German norm."

John Blust and Tony Wilkins

...Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals, of whom some 50,000 were officially sentenced.  Most of these men served time in regular prisons, and an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 of those sentenced were incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps.
...the death rate of homosexuals in concentration camps may have been as high as 60%. Homosexuals in the camps were treated in an unusually cruel manner by their captors.

Jon Hardister and John Faircloth

...Nazi doctors often used gay men for scientific experiments in an attempt to locate a "gay gene" to "cure" any future Aryan children who were gay.

Dan Bishop and Julia Howard

...Some gay men who resisted the SS had their fingernails pulled out. Others had their bowels punctured, causing them to bleed profusely.

Roy Carroll and Marty Kotis

After the war, the treatment of homosexuals in concentration camps went unacknowledged by most countries, and some men were even re-arrested and imprisoned based on evidence found during the Nazi years..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Holocaust
.
.
Most of North Carolina's 'conservatives' have been played for fools by Pat McCrory and the legislature.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/most-of-north-carolinas-conservatives.html

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

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/back-story-on-hb2-explaining-how-pat.html

Still no big money for McCrory and friends since HB2

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/still-no-big-money-for-mccrory-and.html

Who will be the first to give North Carolina's head bigot governor Pat McCrory some campaign cash after he signed HB2

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/who-will-be-first-to-give-north.html