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Governor Pat McCrory has just posted a decidedly angry statement slamming NBA Commissioner Adam Silver‘s decision to move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, North Carolina to New Orleans, Louisiana, over McCrory’s unconstitutional, anti-LGBT law HB2.
“Commissioner Silver has no credibility in telling America that he’s more ‘comfortable’ playing a basketball game in the People’s Republic of China with its oppressive human rights record, rather than the 9th most populous state in the U.S.A.,” McCrory’s Communications Director said in a statement.
“This is another classic example of politically-correct hypocrisy gone mad,” the statement continues, noting that the State of Louisiana “has joined 21 other states that are fighting for basic privacy expectations for our children and families in school restrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities,” by filing a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration’s guidance issued to protect transgender students.
Rather than attempting to address the actual issue, that McCrory’s HB2 has cost the state – and taxpayers – literally hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, rather than accept the fact that the law is unconstitutional, as legal experts have noted, and rather than actually care about transgender students, McCrory is doing everything he can to keep HB2 on the books.
His actions to continue to support HB2 mirror his actions to support his state’s unconstitutional and racist voter ID law, which a federal appeals court ruled is unenforceable. McCrory is now ready to spend possibly millions more to defend it.
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Pat McCrory Issues Angry Statement After Federal Appeals Court Upholds Transgender Rights Ruling
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