Pat McCrory Finally Admits HB2 Is Impacting Employment Opportunities in North Carolina – Specifically, His

HB2 ‘Has Impacted Me to This Day’

HB2 has cost North Carolina residents thousands of jobs and the state hundreds of millions of dollars but as the state’s Republican governor, Pat McCrory refused to acknowledge the impact his sweeping anti-LGBT legislation had on the Tar Heel State. Voters, however, did, and in November, after decades in state and local politics, McCrory was made a one-term governor.

Now looking for a job, private citizen Pat McCrory says HB2 is impacting his ability to find work. Employers are hesitant to hire the man responsible for what became arguably the most-widely known – and for many, despised – law in the country.

HB2 “has impacted me to this day, even after I left office. People are reluctant to hire me, because, ‘oh my gosh, he’s a bigot’ – which is the last thing I am,” McCrory told an evangelical Christian news website, according to The News & Observer. The former governor made his remarks in a podcast billed as him “feeling the full weight of liberal activism.”

In an interview with The News & Observer’s Colin Campbell, published Monday, McCrory expanded on his remarks, saying, “I’ve currently accepted several opportunities in business to do work that I’d done prior to becoming governor in consulting and advisory board positions, and I’ve also been exploring other opportunities in academia, nonprofits and government.”

“And I’ll hopefully be making some of those decisions in the near future,” he added.