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Rob Portman criticizes North Carolina 'bathroom law,' Trump's national debt plan
Cleveland.com ^ | May 9, 2016 | Jerry Pelzer

Posted on 05/09/2016 11:35:27 AM PDT by Pinkbell

COLUMBUS, Ohio—U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Monday criticized North Carolina's restrictions on public bathroom access for transgender people and took issue with Donald Trump's proposal to cut the national debt by giving creditors less than full payment.

The Ohio Republican, speaking with reporters at a warehouse in Columbus, said North Carolina's new limits on protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are "a bad law."

"You need to not discriminate against people and be sure that we are respecting religious liberties," Portman said. "That can be done, and I do not believe that the North Carolina law accomplishes that."

Portman, who came out in support of same-sex marriage in 2013 after his son revealed he was gay, pointed to Utah's anti-discrimination law, which he said "achieved that balance."

The senator also voiced caution about reducing the national debt by persuading creditors to accept less than full payment, as suggested Friday by Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.

Portman, who has endorsed Trump, said while he hasn't reviewed the details of Trump's proposal, the way to address the $19.2 trillion national debt "is not to take away from the full faith and credit that people believe they have when they buy treasuries."

He added, "I would be concerned about anything that would take away from that."

Portman's comments came after he accepted an endorsement from the National Federation of Independent Business.

Juanita Duggan, the new president of the Washington, D.C.-based NFIB, said small business owners "don't have a more dependable ally in Washington than Rob Portman," noting the senator has a 100-percent voting record for the group's key issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 114th; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; robportman; uniparty
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To: Pinkbell

My wife and I had this argument. She thinks the LGBT debate is water under the bridge and that we are not going to win it, so let’s find a bathroom compromise. I asked if she would say the same about abortion, and she thinks abortion is still up for debate. If it is water under the bridge, what about for states like NC? If they are socially conservative don’t they have a right to uphold moral? Or are they just paddling against the inevitable?


21 posted on 05/09/2016 12:48:40 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: bimboeruption

We don’t have same sex bathrooms in GA either.


22 posted on 05/09/2016 12:49:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: JBW1949
You need to concern yourself with OH, Portman

He could lose easily. The opponent was not a terrific governor, but he's better about US jobs staying here.

23 posted on 05/09/2016 12:58:00 PM PDT by grania
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To: Pinkbell

Rob Portman is a good guy -1,000 times better than his Dem opponent Strickland. Ted Strickland nearly bankrupted Ohio when he was our Governor. I will vote for Portman because he will work with Trump and he is better than Strickland.


24 posted on 05/09/2016 1:00:06 PM PDT by jokemoke
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To: Pinkbell
The economy is in freefall, our wonderful elites are robbing us blind and driving up the debt astronomically, we are being invaded by illegals, our dollar is being devalued daily .... and people are ENRAGED about not that but bathroom laws and what one presidential candidate says about another one.

I don't recognize this country anymore or its people.

25 posted on 05/09/2016 1:06:03 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Pinkbell

Primary the SOB


26 posted on 05/09/2016 1:06:43 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("He's a winner in the process of winning. People like that." Scott Adams)
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To: theoilpainter
-- Pay our creditors less than full value? Where does Trump get this crap? --

That's nothing. Trump is also going to make pink ballerina skirts mandatory for the NFL, and is going to confiscate all the accordions and harmonicas.

27 posted on 05/09/2016 1:12:45 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: allendale

No, Portman became an LGBT activist after his son told him he likes penises.


28 posted on 05/09/2016 1:16:18 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Pinkbell
Portman, who came out in support of same-sex marriage in 2013 after his son revealed he was gay,

There you go.

29 posted on 05/09/2016 1:18:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sacajaweau

Where would the money for the balloon come from?


30 posted on 05/09/2016 1:39:45 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Cboldt

Finally, a rational proposal.


31 posted on 05/09/2016 1:42:19 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: allendale

Portman is confused about whether or not penises should be pointed at urinals when they are releasing urine? He thinks they should be pointed at flushes in the ladies’ room? And spray all over? And spread disease? There’s a reason for urinals being in the men’s room.


32 posted on 05/09/2016 1:43:47 PM PDT by abclily
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To: JBW1949

Britain. Although the final payment wasn’t made until 2006.


33 posted on 05/09/2016 1:51:51 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Pinkbell

Maybe the other guy would have done better if he told the constituents that Rob Portman wants to deny women’s right to privacy by allowing transgender males to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms.


34 posted on 05/09/2016 1:59:35 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Pinkbell

We need a list of Republican Senators who are up for re election this year so we can see who is loyal to the party nominee and who is not.


35 posted on 05/09/2016 2:36:18 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Cowboy Bob

I don’t feel sorry for him one bit. I’m curious how the kid got gay.


36 posted on 05/09/2016 3:19:39 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch

WIMPY FATHER.....FORCEFUL MOTHER!! THAT’S how the kid got GAY!


37 posted on 05/09/2016 4:06:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: allendale

NO....he’s got a HOMOSEXUAL SON....PERIOD!! THAT TRUMPS NATIONAL SECURITY!!


38 posted on 05/09/2016 4:07:04 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Sadly, he feels PRIDE in his GAY SON, or he wouldn’t be DEMEANING HIMSELF.


39 posted on 05/09/2016 4:08:47 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Pinkbell

The vast majority of “conservatives” are really “bourgeois.” Go along. Be reasonable. Collect a paycheck and don’t raise “philosophical” questions. Portan is a perfect example. He is a notoriously upbeat, high-on-life type guy. Wdll-adjusted.


40 posted on 05/09/2016 4:21:59 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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