“Roy Cooper’s silence on the Charlotte bathroom ordinance repeal deal confirms he was working with his ally Jennifer Roberts to kill any compromise all along”, Hayes said.
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Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said Monday morning the city “is not prepared” to discuss repealing the ordinance that led to House Bill 2 at its meeting Monday night. “2 on a Charlotte ordinance that protects LGBT people from discrimination and is similar to laws in 18 states and more than 200 municipalities”, Susanna Birdsong, Policy Counsel for the ACLU of North Carolina.
Republican leaders offered their compromise Friday after more organizations pulled events from North Carolina citing HB 2.
The conversations initially began on Friday afternoon when a hospitality lobbying group said it had information that made it believe if Charlotte were to repeal its nondiscrimination ordinance regarding bathroom use, the state would repeal HB2 – which advocates maintain is the worst piece of anti-LGBT legislation in the nation.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts on repealing an anti-discrimination ordinance in exchange for state lawmakers thinking about maybe repealing HB2: Yeah, no.
While city leaders “applaud the governor for recognizing the state should overturn HB2”, Roberts wrote in a statement Monday, she argued that Charlotte does not bear responsibility for the state law, noting the state Legislature can overturn it “at any time without any action from the City of Charlotte”.
The N.C. House Republican Caucus is scheduled to meet Monday at 1 p.m, with the Charlotte City Council scheduled to meet Monday at 5 p.m. but only zoning issues are on the agenda.
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Pat McCrory has dropped a lawsuit against the federal government over a state law that bans transgender people from bathrooms matching their gender identity in government facilities.
Senate leader Phil Berger on Monday questioned whether Roberts was seeking to “prolong this debate for political reasons – regardless of the impact on Charlotte and our state’s business community”.
He says that 180 days later, “the architects of this disaster” should “step up, admit their mistake and provide the leadership necessary to repeal HB2”. “It is the governor’s understanding that legislative leaders and the lieutenant governor agree with that assessment”.
About three-fifths of respondents said House Bill 2 has hurt North Carolina’s reputation, while only 11.4 percent said it has helped. “Instead of repealing HB2, Gov. McCrory is reprising his role as ‘blamer-in-chief.’ Not a single entity has left North Carolina because of the Charlotte ordinance – they’ve all left because of HB2. 2”, said state Rep. Chris Sgro, D-Guilford and executive director of Equality North Carolina, said in a Monday release. But efforts at a resolution intensified last week after the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference took championships away from North Carolina because of the law, including the ACC football title game in Charlotte.
“The City of Charlotte continues its commitment to be a welcoming community that honors and respects all people”. A provision that forced state discrimination lawsuits to federal courts was repealed by McCrory.
“The damage to our economy must be stopped and it is clear that full repeal of HB2 will accomplish this”, Cooper said.
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The law is widely unpopular statewide and has become a drag on Gov. Their statements say they’ll only look into repealing the law once the Charlotte ordinance is fully eliminated.
