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Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts got a loud ovation when she walked into the city council chambers for Monday night’s zoning meeting.
“Businesses are leaving here, tournaments are pulling out because we have people that come here expecting protections”, she says. She thanked supporters for turning out, but said they would not have an opportunity to speak. Pat McCrory to rescind the state’s controversial law limiting LGBT anti-discrimination protections if Charlotte drops a bid to expand such safeguards is getting the cold shoulder from the city’s mayor.
Ellis continued, “If the Charlotte City Council totally repeals the ordinance and then we can confirm there is support to repeal among the majority of state lawmakers in the House and Senate, the governor will call a special session”.
HB2, passed in response, prevented local governments from passing ordinances similar to Charlotte’s.
Some gay-rights activists have said GOP lawmakers can’t be trusted. The rest didn’t know or were undecided.
Carney said she wants to see HB2 repealed.
The Elon poll of 644 likely voters has a margin of sampling error of 3.9 percentage points.
There’s also no guarantee that McCrory and GOP legislators would follow through with getting rid of HB2, even if Charlotte officials rescinded their anti-discrimination measure. “2”, said state Rep. Chris Sgro, D-Guilford and executive director of Equality North Carolina, said in a Monday release.
“The damage we have suffered because of Jennifer Roberts, Roy Cooper, Becky Carney, and others makes the facts clear; Pat McCrory and the N.C. General Assembly, led by Republicans, have grown our economy and gotten us out of debt”. But they now say they regret it, giving the negative economic impact and national scrutiny the state has since received. “They are seeing 50 days until an election”.
“The City of Charlotte continues its commitment to be a welcoming community that honors and respects all people”, Roberts said. Barringer says she voted for the law out of concern about “safety and particularly privacy in bathrooms”. We are not prepared to add this item to our agenda this evening.
Republicans called a one-day special session in March to approve House Bill 2 after the Charlotte City Council approved its ordinance, which prohibits discrimination against the LGBT community.
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders and Gov.
The Governor has agreed to call it quits on the whole fiasco and repeal HB 2 as part of a compromise deal, as long as Charlotte City Council repeals a LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance.
Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts’ response basically amounts to “no, you move first”. Entertainers, including Bruce Springsteen, canceled concerts and companies such as Deutsche Bank scrapped plans to add jobs in the state over objections to the law.
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Sen. Shirley Randleman of Wilkesboro and Rep. Jeffrey Elmore of North Wilkesboro were asked by email on Saturday morning for their views on the proposed repeal of HB2 if the Charlotte City Council repeals the non-discrimination ordinance. HB2 also dictated that transgenders must use the bathroom according to their birth certificate.
