McCrory: “Oops”

By Gary Pearce | 2016-04-13

After weeks of staunchly defending HB2 and slamming opponents as a “politically correct” mob of perverts, left-wingers, their allies in the media and their corporate lackeys, Governor McCrory rose from his sickbed – at least, via video and one careful interview – to waffle, wiggle and waver. As one wit said of McCrory’s executive order,…

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Job killers

By Gary Pearce | 2016-04-06

With the PayPal pullout, HB2 has now officially killed more jobs than Obamacare. Maybe that’s the plan. See, Republicans are strong in rural areas, which are losing jobs and population. They’ve tried to reverse that since 2010, with no success. So now they figure it’s easier to stop the explosive growth in strong Democratic urban…

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Playing the bathroom card. Again

By Gary Pearce | 2016-04-04

“Do you want Negroes using your toilet facilities?” Campaign flyer, Willis Smith for US Senate, 1950 Every time equal rights take a new step forward, opponents run for the bathroom. They’re doing it now with HB2. They’re scaring people with horror stories about predators attacking girls in bathrooms. In the 1970s, they claimed the Equal…

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