Charlotte just announced they're not repealing their ordinance. There's no way the NC legislature was going to do anything substantial in return.

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Basically, this deal isn't going to stop the protests unless it's a really good one from the perspective of the LGBT community. And seeing as no one in the LGBT community was consulted on this deal, I'll bet it will be so weak as to be laughable. And if Charlotte repeal its ordinance then hb2 is struck down, the Charlotte bill won't be reinstayed.

It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Moral Monday protested a week or two ago in front of the state legislative building. I think eleven were arrested.

(05-23-2016 03:42 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Basically, this deal isn't going to stop the protests unless it's a really good one from the perspective of the LGBT community. And seeing as no one in the LGBT community was consulted on this deal, I'll bet it will be so weak as to be laughable. And if Charlotte repeal its ordinance then hb2 is struck down, the Charlotte bill won't be reinstayed.

It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Cancellations keep piling up.

We don't care.

Who is we? Are you in NC? I can assure you that those of us that live here do care. Business is hurting, our unemployment rate is still above the national average and states around us. Some of our loses from this crap is obvious and measurable but there is no way of knowing how many corporations aren't even considering us going forward, how many conventions going forward don't even have NC on their short list of possibilities, or how many families made their vacation reservation for Florida or Tennessee rather then coming here.

(05-23-2016 08:29 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Basically, this deal isn't going to stop the protests unless it's a really good one from the perspective of the LGBT community. And seeing as no one in the LGBT community was consulted on this deal, I'll bet it will be so weak as to be laughable. And if Charlotte repeal its ordinance then hb2 is struck down, the Charlotte bill won't be reinstayed.

It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Moral Monday protested a week or two ago in front of the state legislative building. I think eleven were arrested.

"Moral Monday"
Lmfao. What a joke.

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(05-23-2016 08:40 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:42 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Basically, this deal isn't going to stop the protests unless it's a really good one from the perspective of the LGBT community. And seeing as no one in the LGBT community was consulted on this deal, I'll bet it will be so weak as to be laughable. And if Charlotte repeal its ordinance then hb2 is struck down, the Charlotte bill won't be reinstayed.

It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Cancellations keep piling up.

We don't care.

Who is we? Are you in NC? I can assure you that those of us that live here do care.

I live outside of Charlotte and work their daily. Nobody Ive talked about it gives a rip. Every day I drive and walked past busy businesses and plenty of money changing hands.

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(05-23-2016 08:29 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Basically, this deal isn't going to stop the protests unless it's a really good one from the perspective of the LGBT community. And seeing as no one in the LGBT community was consulted on this deal, I'll bet it will be so weak as to be laughable. And if Charlotte repeal its ordinance then hb2 is struck down, the Charlotte bill won't be reinstayed.

It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Moral Monday protested a week or two ago in front of the state legislative building. I think eleven were arrested.

Now that you mention it I think I heard a tease on the radio about that. I just did a quick Google search and the last thing it turned up on the first 2 pages was late april

LOL

If 13% of the US population couldn't bring SC down via economic terrorism then I feel pretty sure NC can survive 4% of the population's attempt at it.


If anything it'll make Asheville worth visiting again by ridding it of the degenerates who have moved in the last decade or so.

(05-23-2016 08:47 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 08:40 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:42 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  It's been over a month since the last protest I could find in the news. This has come and gone.

Cancellations keep piling up.

We don't care.

Who is we? Are you in NC? I can assure you that those of us that live here do care.

I live outside of Charlotte and work their daily. Nobody Ive talked about it gives a rip. Every day I drive and walked past busy businesses and plenty of money changing hands.

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Have you talked to anyone in the hospitality or tourism sectors? How about anyone working in economic development / industry recruitment?

(05-23-2016 05:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Charlotte just announced they're not repealing their ordinance. There's no way the NC legislature was going to do anything substantial in return.

No need to do anything. NC has had the country's fastest growing economy since the beginning of 2013. NC legislature is doing just fine. Any blowback from HB2 will be negligible.

Since the day HB2 passed NC has incorporated +13K new business names.

http://www.sosnc.gov/corporations/searchchgs.aspx

Quote:Search Type: New Corporations Search Criteria: Between: 3/23/2016 & 5/24/2016
Search Date: 5/24/2016 Search Time: 8:58 AM
13426 Records Returned

I'm sure some are renames but the point is that I don't think many folks are pulling out of NC for business.
It will be interesting to see the real financial reports from the 2nd quarter.

Black pastors gather outside the State Capitol to say that men in women's bathrooms is not a civil rights #HB2

(05-24-2016 07:33 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 05:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Charlotte just announced they're not repealing their ordinance. There's no way the NC legislature was going to do anything substantial in return.

No need to do anything. NC has had the country's fastest growing economy since the beginning of 2013. NC legislature is doing just fine. Any blowback from HB2 will be negligible.

Ww think it's working. 350 anti LGBT bills were working their way thru state legislatures. Only 4 passed into law.

(05-24-2016 10:40 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Black pastors gather outside the State Capitol to say that men in women's bathrooms is not a civil rights #HB2

This makes me so happy. Glad they're able to think for themselves and not partake in the NAACP / Liberal monolith.

If anyone thinks the state isn't suffering from this rush to legislate they are kidding themselves.

"It says the missed economic impact for Mecklenburg County with the loss of PayPal’s 400 job expansion plans equals $285.5 million. The expansion could have created more than 900 other jobs and generated $7 million in statewide sales tax revenue.

Mecklenburg County suffered:

$7.1 million in missed income and sales tax revenue for the state and its counties
$3.7 million in missed sales and property tax revenue for Mecklenburg County
$202.7 million in wages and benefits"

http://www.wbtv.com/story/32051113/hb2s-...eaders-say

Darn, liberal Charmeck isnt getting tax revenue.

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(05-24-2016 07:56 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  If anyone thinks the state isn't suffering from this rush to legislate they are kidding themselves.

"It says the missed economic impact for Mecklenburg County with the loss of PayPal’s 400 job expansion plans equals $285.5 million. The expansion could have created more than 900 other jobs and generated $7 million in statewide sales tax revenue.

Mecklenburg County suffered:

$7.1 million in missed income and sales tax revenue for the state and its counties
$3.7 million in missed sales and property tax revenue for Mecklenburg County
$202.7 million in wages and benefits"

http://www.wbtv.com/story/32051113/hb2s-...eaders-say

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is just suffering from a self-inflicted wound for trying to pass an illegal ordinance to begin with.

Heading Monday to see the legendary Jackson Browne in Wilmington. Instead of cancelling his tour dates...he is donating all the proceeds to LGBT organizations from both NC shows that week. At least he is willing to actually perform and put his money where his mouth is on this issue. I commend him for this. Should be a great show regardless. I saw him last year in Durham and his voice is still as good as it was in the 70's.

(05-24-2016 09:35 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Heading Monday to see the legendary Jackson Browne in Wilmington. Instead of cancelling his tour dates...he is donating all the proceeds to LGBT organizations from both NC shows that week. At least he is willing to actually perform and put his money where his mouth is on this issue. I commend him for this. Should be a great show regardless. I saw him last year in Durham and his voice is still as good as it was in the 70's.

That should be a great show. He's one of my favorite s/sw's.

This is the nightmare to social justice warriors... What if members of the "intersecting groups" start to realize they are being used in a way that never benefits and sometimes hurts them.

(05-23-2016 09:26 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 08:47 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 08:40 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:42 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-23-2016 03:36 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Cancellations keep piling up.

We don't care.

Who is we? Are you in NC? I can assure you that those of us that live here do care.

I live outside of Charlotte and work their daily. Nobody Ive talked about it gives a rip. Every day I drive and walked past busy businesses and plenty of money changing hands.

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Have you talked to anyone in the hospitality or tourism sectors? How about anyone working in economic development / industry recruitment?

You can talk to me.

Our rentals on OBX are booking faster than anything the past 8-10 years.

Not saying it's because of this, only that perhaps maybe, maybe 7% of anyone would make a decision about where to take their family for a week at the beach based on this idiocy.

I'd bet 87.32% have no idea about this garbage anyway.

Non issue. Time to move on.