McCrory: I am sacrificing it for NC. When I am no longer governor, the All-Star NBA game will come back to Charlotte.
Let’s also hope this year’s electoral achievements are a little longer lasting than 2008 (thinking House and Senate).
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If McCory loses maybe his old company Duke Energy will hire him back shoveling coal dust!
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Progress continues to…progress!!
One step at a time.
However…how’s Senator Burr’s re-election campaign coming?
As a former North Carolina resident (like so many others, a transplanted Northerner), I view the last six years as more of a detour back to the past for a state that had largely already made the transition. A lot of damage has been done in the meantime.
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Burr has a slight lead, but he’s very unpopular—29% approval rating—and could lose if Ross can get her name out there enough.
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He’s got the constipated look of a preacher that wants to ban dancing in the whole town.
I’ll look for him in a future Footloose sequel.
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More of the same bills will still hit the governor’s desk. Cooper can veto them but the cretins who wrote HB2 will still be there and override it. The legislature would have to change. The Republicans can’t allow that or their state will be turned upside down! And that would be a good thing.
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Money talks. Millions have be lost to the State with the HB2 legislation. The confirmation that NBA is going to Louisiana could be the final nail in his coffin - I say hopefully.
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This is what happens when folks from the Northeast mass-migrate to your state and start ‘gentrifying’ your podunk towns and cities.
Oh HE’S not an ‘empty suit’. He is a fully bought and paid for corporate shill.
Yep, he’s a fully-formed meat puppet with Art Pope’s hand up his ass directing everything.
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Somewhere, Art Pope is wondering where it all went wrong. Hey, Art: “Suicide is painless…”
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I am glad to hear this – there may be hope for my neighbors to the south, yet. However:
Among those polled, 55 percent disapproved of HB2 and another 70 percent thought the legislation gave North Carolina a bad reputation nationally.
So there’s still a sizable chunk of those polled who are just fine with the law. Believable … but unbelievably bigoted.
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What Uncle Wally said!
They were on my short list up until they went insane 6 years ago. Of course, so was my home state of Wisconsin. Again, up until they went insane.
So, I chose to land in Oregon instead (just before the governor got to step down for corruption - can I pick em or what?)
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15% more people were upset that NC’s reputation is more important than a bad law, as well.
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That 15% is the difference between motivated by morality and motivated by self interest.
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Here, here! It feels almost like we’re in a '60s-style era. Pass the bong.
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60’s? Perfect! Valium was considered a harmless vitamin.
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Exactly!