When your Democratic colleagues were walking out of the session rather than be a part of passing the bill, didn’t that give you the tiniest inkling that there might be a problem with voting for it?
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Ironically, these are the types of moderate Dems that the Berners will never support.
Sorry about that Mr. Bell. What were you thinking? You just make it harder to vote any of the current legislators in NC.
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I’m glad that two Dems that voted for the bill are now coming out against it on the record. I hope they will make up for their mistake by putting in a lot of effort to make repeal happen as soon as possible.
If they don’t or are insincere then the people of NC can vote them out, but I think it’s correct to acknowledge when politicians own up to a mistake instead of trashing them.
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Bell is a state Representative. It was the state Senate Democrats who walked out of the Senate session in protest. The thing about a bicameral legislature is that one chamber usually doesn’t know what the other one is doing. In this case, the Senate walkout happened after the House had voted.
I appreciate your sentiment, but facts do matter.
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PRO TIP: When ultra-conservative Republicans call a special legislative session to ram through a bill that the Governor, no slouch in the ultra-conservative Republican ranks, had previously said was problematic, you’re probably on safe ground assuming it’s a hate-mongering piece of shit that you shouldn’t vote for in the first place.
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One woman legislator walked out, and the remaining women quickly followed. Everyone mistook it as some sort of protest, not knowing she’d told her female colleagues she was going to the bathroom.
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Thanks for the clarification. (Albeit unless there’s no communication among democrats, it does seem likely that the house would have known what the senate was doing, and in any case he had to be pretty tonedeaf to know that most of his colleagues were violently opposed.)
to hell with you ya spineless piece of shit …typical nutless dem…will always cave before republicon BS
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You’re welcome. I just hate to see facts abused. Doubtless the House knew what the Senate was doing since they walked out and held a press conference. But by then the House had already voted on the bill.so it was too late. And the vote in the House was 83-25 with 12 Democrats voting aye so they couldn’t have stopped the bill’s passage in any case. All they could have done was keep the Governor from touting it as “bipartisan legislation”. Anyway, “tone deaf” doesn’t cover it; “comatose” is more like it.
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Being civilized is the price you pay for good jobs. It isn’t like this is something brand new. Businesses have been leaving states over these laws for the last couple of years.
I am not criticizing imkmu3, I just grabbed the quote from his post.
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Stuff like this makes me want to scream an unprintable stream of expletives and pull my hair out! I have no sympathy whatsoever for the electoral consequences that may befall him. Democrats have no business voting for laws like this and then still calling themselves a Democrat. puke I hope he is primaried in the upcoming election. This isn’t even just a matter of him signing onto a very bad law but he also was apparently ok with how this was rammed down everybody’s throats during a “special session” with minimal consideration.
They kicked a LOT of people in the teeth (including veterans) with this horrid law but used “Transgender Bathroom Panic” to rush it through and hide all of the other poison pills in the law. puke
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As a Hillary supporter, I don’t support people who vote for this junk either.
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I don’t believe for a second he didn’t know what he was voting on. Now he’s just sorry that he’s facing consequences.
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We’ve heard it so often - “I was opposed to equal rights until my child/brother/friend/ex-student revealed they were gay”. Why does it take a personal relationship for people to realize that it’s just wrong to discriminate? Can’t they see it doesn’t matter whether they know an affected individual?
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okay, you got me. You’re probably right.
I’m still pissed off though.
And there’s still no excuse for them voting for this in the first place. IF they actually do work to repeal it, then that would help, but otherwise it sure seems like backtracking to save their own asses once they realized people were mad enough to cause economic damage to the state. Time will tell, I guess.
For anyone confused about moderates being angry over this:
Belief in the art of the possible is not the same as belief in indiscriminate and injudicious compromise – the Democrats who voted for this did the latter rather than the former.
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In the interest of time … just change your ( D ) to an ( R ) and have done with it —
Yeh… when corporations speak Dembasses listen .