I swear to god, if this increasingly Nixonesque shitstain gets reelected, I’m outta here. Might as well go back to Kentucky where I can endure ignorance and bigotry in a form that is at least homey and familiar to me.
Before we start on this subject, let’s all remember to try, try, please try to avoid the flag… we don’t need another article’s commenting to be shut down because the recent influx of trolls has gotten us telling them to F’off.
Why limit that to public restrooms - certainly these trans people are trespassing just by going into a public building.
One would think that having already lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars for his state that even the most stupid politician would stop digging… someone get a 2x4 and whack him across the head already.
Yes, of course. For years in North Carolina when police suspected someone of trespassing their questioning centered on whether the person looked like a male or female, what was on their birth certificate, followed by speculation of what their genitals looked like and was anyone else on the premises embarrassed about the size of their dick.
Republicans sure are intent on forcing the government to interfere in citizens’ most private of affairs.
I’ve got to just laugh my azz off about this azzwipe of a NC gov. Back in the 50s I went to elementary/middle school in NC and we had unisex facilities. As I have described before 2 doors, one marked boys the other girls. Both doors led to same place a single room, sinks down center, urinals on one side nearest boys door, and stalls down other side nearest girls door. BUT AGAIN ONE ROOM. Don’t remember a single time that anyone was upset or even thought about it.
Guy’s SO desperately trying to throw everything at the wall in the hopes that something sticks. Trespassing, indecent exposure, pedophilia, necrophilia,… 
North Carolina: Where police officers seriously question their career choice.
the reason then is the same as now: sex is a mystery to those who are unable to fathom biology.
RemEMBer the GOOD OLD daYS when IT was BLACK Men RAPING our White WOMEN rather thaN MEN Pretending TO be women?
Whatever happened to the followup by the Justice Dept. and the failure of NC to respond to the case against this law as a form of discrimination? Did I miss any updates on that matter? Um…I really don’t see how changing the rationale to a trespassing charge changes anything with respect to that law or its intent.
“But you know, it’s just basic privacy rights and that’s trespassing and we’ll continue to do that just like we were doing long before the Charlotte ordinance. So nothing’s really changed in that regard.”
and this is when someone should have asked him about the cisgenders who have done wrong and who will be under more scrutiny due to the bathroom police.
by Billy Ingram
Catawba College was a conservative learning institution that, by the mid 1970s, was solidifying its reputation as a rowdy party school — drunken panty raids, Purple Jesus toga parties, brown-bag liquor night at the Midnight Sun to watch Jr. Walker & the All-Stars, $2.75 all-you-can-drink Thursdays at the Buckaneer Lounge. The school newspaper was crowded with ads for Old Milwaukee, Schlitz Malt Liquor and Wild Irish Rose fortified wine.
There were so many alcohol-fueled engagements on and off campus, the jocks and business majors failed to run for school office or show up to vote in the 1976-77 elections, resulting in the Student Government Association being overwhelmed by feminists and long-haired, peace-and-love types.
SGA President Frank Mianzo was a hippie right out of central casting. With stringy, below-the-shoulder black hair and a full beard, he could have easily passed for one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. He adopted a laissez-faire approach to enforcing the more archaic rules governing campus life. Students hauled before the Judicial Court for public intoxication or dorm-visitation violations were more likely let off with a warning as opposed to the overly harsh sentences common in years past.
Mianzo organized a campus beautification day that brought half the student body out to trim bushes and wash away the purple pools of puke flowering outside the residence halls. He struck out for more transparency in student government, advocated for women and minority issues, and booked concerts by Doc & Merle Watson, folk singer Tom Chapin and Pure Prairie League.
You can almost smell the patchouli from here.
Frank Mianzo was the SGA president who inspired McCrory and the college Republicans to run on a slate for SGA offices.
Without a serious course correction, many feared Catawba College was on the verge of becoming a hippie enclave. The college Republicans — pretty much everyone who wasn’t in the drama or music departments — were especially alarmed.
Who better to turn back the liberal tide than third-year poli-sci major Pat McCrory, the only arch-conservative serving on the student senate in 1977? As leading member of the Grievance Committee his focus had been on trying to get the literary magazine defunded and synchronizing the clocks on campus.
I became acquainted with Pat three years earlier, when we were both freshmen. Looking for a ride home for the weekend, he scoured the student directory for anyone from Greensboro who had a car. I guess I was the first to say yes, despite never having met the guy. I can’t recall what was discussed during that or the two or three subsequent trips down Interstate 85; we had practically nothing in common. In high school he was class president; I was class clown. He played tennis in the afternoons; I drew comic strips for the paper.
I had to admire his brash confidence and dead certainty, a natural politician if ever there was one, with that unnerving, used-car-salesman smile, like someone with the summer sun in their eyes unable to see past the glare and compensating for it, and a Cheshire grin highlighted by eyes that, depending on his mood, could flash bright or go dim in an instant: Elvis has left the building.
McCrory mounted an aggressive campaign for 1977-78 SGA President as part of a concerted effort to return student government to the strident, old-boy’s-club it had traditionally been. A number of like-minded conservatives from Pat’s dorm Pine Knot (the closest thing Catawba had to a fraternity) filed for office, business and economics majors flooded the zone. Pat’s opponent for SGA President, James Shriver, was himself a Pine Knot business major with thick curly Bama Bangs and no previous political experience.
During “The Great Debate” (honest, that’s what they called it) McCrory positioned himself steadfastly against “wasteful spending,” expressing a desire to exert budgetary oversight across all student activities, especially the newspaper and arts magazines. As head of the Presidential Court he pledged stiffer penalties for those who violated the rules.
This stood in contrast to Shriver who didn’t share Pat’s zeal for budget cutting and supported a more lax enforcement of dorm visitation hours. He intended to continue programs enacted under Mianzo’s term, promising to work closely with all agencies and the outgoing president.
A get-out-the-vote campaign assured conservatives of a clean sweep, and that’s just what happened. But McCrory’s coup d’état went over the wall without Pat. In a surprise upset the mellower candidate prevailed.
RCP has it as a dead heat. I hope the outrage doesn’t die out before the election…
McCrory: If you don’t carry your long form birth certificate to public bathrooms, NC Police will be checking your genitals and guide you to proper restrooms.
so, much like like the voter fraud laws, another solution in search of a problem… if bathroom violations were treated as trespassing charges and it meant someone had to complain about it then why was another law needed…
in addition… isn’t this like the Arizona show your papers law? gotta carry your birth certificate around in order to use the bathroom?
as someone above pointed best use of small government is to make sure your bladder vacates properly…
Isn’t that the real reason for the bill? No LGBT in public.
In some areas, the outrage is maxed out at 100, where it has been for years. I can’t speak for the whole state, but in my area the outrage will never go away.
Guarding
Our
Potties
2016 will be seen as a water closet moment in US politics.