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House Bill 2.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Commerce Secretary John Skvarla told the Charlotte Observer Monday that negative economic effects from House Bill 2 have been more talk than actual impact.

“It hasn’t moved the needle one iota,” Skvarla said, adding that the state is in the “best position” it’s ever been in financially.

HB 2, which was signed by Gov. Pat McCrory in March, nullified local government ordinances establishing anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. But it gained widespread attention for its stipulation requiring people in publicly owned buildings to use restrooms that correspond with the gender listed on their birth certificate.

Since its was signed, the NBA All-Star game, seven NCAA championship games and eight ACC championship games have been pulled from the state due to discrepancies over the bill.

Skvarla said North Carolina has “hundreds of active [business] projects” in the works. He also said the state has the nation’s 23rd largest econom

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I call bullshit.  No way the concerts that were cancelled and the NCAA pulling tournaments isn't impacting the economy.  If there is a God in heaven, the mouth breathing hillbilly inbred Governor will be voted out of office in a couple of weeks.  He gives southerners a bad name.  There is room in the Cheney, Rumsfeld circle of hell for McCrory.

 

CK and Cop.  Good to see you.  Happy Hump Day.

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i live here and thats bullshit, and cop your such an asshole

 

:clap Don't know much about NC politics but sounds like a statement from a man trying to get reelected or trying to make sure Jethro McCrory gets reelected.  Would love to walk through downtown Charlotte and ask the bar and restaurant owners and hotels if they didn't suffer when all of this cancelled.  Or some guy or gal that had their heart set on seeing Pearl Jam and had tickets in their hand.  But at least the government solved the rash of rapes by trans predators in women's restrooms.  Hopefully, there will be a bill soon to put armed guards at all women's restrooms to insure the law is enforced.  Dumb shit here, man.  Dumb...

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North Carolina got their wooden bowl back.  LMAO  CK, maybe you can put the bowl under your bed to piss in instead of running to the outhouse on those cold winter nights.  Don't let a LGBT person use it, though.  The Governor may give you the chair!

 

Ooooh... North Carolina is bitter! 

Since the state passed the virulently anti-queer House Bill 2, which prohibits transgender people from using the public restroom that corresponds with their gender identity and bans cities from passing laws to protect queer people, in March of this year, scores of companies have spoken out against the law and some have canceled plans to bring more business there.

This week, in what has to be one of the more bizarre stories of the year, The Charlotte Observer is reporting that state officials demanded that one of those companies, PayPal, return a wooden bowl they had gifted the tech giant earlier this year now that PayPal has pulled the plug on a major expansion planned to take place in Charlotte.

We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried, folks.

“We reached out to them and said, ‘Give us the bowl back.’ That is a North Carolina artifact from the North Carolina state capitol made by North Carolina artisans for companies that are coming into North Carolina,” N.C. Commerce Secretary John Skvarla told the newspaper on Monday.

The bowl was reportedly one of 340 that were made from an oak tree growing near the capital after the tree was struck by lightning. Each of the bowls was given to a company moving to or expanding production in North Carolina.

Skvarla told The Charlotte Observer, “We got [the bowl] back, gave it to a charity auction, and they raised money that is for the benefit of the state capitol.”

This seems like a really good use of government officials’ time, right?

Here’s a little unsolicited advice, North Carolina: maybe instead of pulling petty stunts like this one, you could spend a little more energy on repealing HB2 so you won’t lose another 730 jobs and you can prevent the state from missing out on up to $5 billion dollars a year courtesy of your bigoted law?

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