Roy's no big progressive and being elected a Dem Governor with a crazy GOP legislature isn't going to be fun for him, but the GOP crazies just handed us our best chance to mobilize the voters to at least get McCrory out.

With gerrymandering we're pretty screwed with the General Assembly until at least 2020.

I LOVE seeing the pressure growing to repeal this hateful bill.

Protesters shut down Franklin Street in Chapel Hill last night--and the police were told to just let the demonstration
run its course.

Opposition to this isn't going away: McCrory and his merry band of bigots seriously underestimated the blowback to
their little hate bill.

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--and it's in High Anxiety mode right now. The big annual event is mid-April. SO MUCH money to be lost.

I am so glad to see the business sector responding. Yes it is the ONLY thing the perpetrators understand.

If NC's economy has to be trashed to get McCrony and the Koch gang of hijackers out, then so be it.

Most of the furniture manufacturing in NC went overseas many years ago.

I don't know all that much about it, but I think they bring overseas lines in now, or designed here, made there. Yes furniture manufacturing has been gutted in NC but they still do this big market thing, is still billed as the largest furniture showcase event in the world. Very big deal to NC.

This law is so stupid and backward. I hope McCrony Co is getting an earful and an email full. From all directions.

Wow.

Market Facts

The High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, bringing more than 75,000 people to High Point every six months. Serious retail home furnishings buyers can be found in High Point twice a year because if you can’t find it in High Point…it probably doesn’t exist.
Current Demographics

180 Buildings
11.5 Million Square Feet of Showspace
75,000 Attendees Each Market
More Than 2000 Exhibitors
100+ Countries Represented
Tens of Thousands of New Product Introductions
Approximately 10% of Attendees Are International

Corporate power overrides elected politicians,
but when it favours our side of the issue, it's ok.

They were saying that a group of 80 had already canceled a tourism trip to Asheville and more were coming. The mayor of Asheville is trying to tell people who know the area that we are inclusive.

The governor of Georgia is incurring the wrath of his party for vetoing a "'religious freedom" measure that was also targeted at the LGBT community because it was going to prevent Atlanta from hosting a Super Bowl in the new stadium that taxpayers are helping billionaire Arthur Blank with (to replace the 25 year old Georgia Dome which is still nice enough to host all kinds of major events).

The Republican Governors have overplayed the wedge issues to the bigots and are alienating their real base, the upper 0.1%.

and we know that if business hurts--something gets DONE.

If it's just people hurting

The Rethug bidness sector got in bed with the fundies/tea party and this is their unholy result. May it bite them in the ass many times over.

I hope the whole country boycotts North Carolina so NC can scrape off McCrony and the Koch hijackers. There are many good people in North Carolina who do not deserve this.

Thank you to everyone who is speaking out and taking a stand. Business or individual, we need a lot of voices, and sadly, the threat of huge financial losses to force McCrory to take a step back on this shit.

Money is the only thing they understand. They have no empathy or sympathy for those they hurt with these hateful laws.