Post HB2 North Carolina state level campaign finance reports are flowing in

...the full economic impact of House Bill 2 on North Carolina's economy is largely unrealized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Facilities_Privacy_%26_Security_Act

These folks, along with some down in Charlotte 

cost North Carolinians thousands of jobs

along with those who funded them after March 23, 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

Pat McCrory, Phil Berger and Tim Moore use North Carolina taxpayer monies to fund speculative land aquistion

"The North Carolina Railroad Co. said this week that it will buy an additional 100 acres within the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, becoming by far the dominant land owner.

...Of its 13-member board, the governor appoints seven while the speaker of the House and president pro tem of the Senate appoint three each...

Somebody is going to make a killing on this deal, 

the question is whom

...the purchase is in cooperation with the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite Foundation, an arm of the Greensboro-based Joseph M. Bryan Foundation.

...Although the railroad is technically a private company, the state owns all of its stock and state government has a powerful influence in its structure."

http://www.greensboro.com/gnr/n-c-railroad-co-to-buy-more-acres-in-megasite/article_f6740582-102c-507f-8c12-d1fa637a0030.html

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

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

"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/
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"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
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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

"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