North Carolina Republicans Fundraising Off Anti-LGBT Law In Ugly, Fear-Mongering New Campaign

Divisive, False Ad Shows Man Walking Into Women’s Restroom

If there were any questions about how hate-filled North Carolina Republican lawmakers are, their latest ad has just answered them. The North Carolina Republican Senatorial Committee, which has no official website, has launched an ugly, divisive, and false “I Stand With Governor McCrory” campaign to fundraise off HB2, the expansive and unconstitutional anti-LGBT law Governor Pat McCrory signed last week.

It actually labels the ACLU – an organization whose mission is to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution – and LGBT civil rights groups “radical, left-wing special-interest groups.”

“The ACLU and other radical, left-wing special-interest groups are suing North Carolina to create an extreme national mandate forcing women and young girls to share locker rooms and bathrooms with grown men,” it claims, falsely. 

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Worse, it fear-mongers with an image (photo above) that falsely depicts what LGBT non-dicrimination laws do, by showing a man walking into the women’s restroom. 

Since Gov. McCrory signed HB2 into law, over 80 corporations and business leaders have emphatically denounced it, and urged the North Carolina Republican governor to repeal it. Instead, McCrory has launched a campaign of half-truths and lies, even recording a 5-minute video attacking his opponents and denouncing what he calls “a vicious, nation-wide smear campaign” targeting North Carolina. The attacks are actually directed at him for signing HB2, and not North Carolina.

Three states and several major cities have instituted a ban on taxpayer funded travel to the Tar Heel State. North Carolina’s Attorney General has refused to defend the law in court, deeming it “unconstitutional.”

 

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Image: Screenshot via I Stand With Governor McCrory