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‘Bathroom bill’ could cost Austin tourism $109 million (TX)
kxan ^ | Feb. 17, 2017 | Robert Maxwell

Posted on 02/17/2017 4:34:55 PM PST by bgill

KXAN obtained the latest estimates from the CVB showing 22 groups have expressed concern about the bill. If all were to cancel their convention bookings, the impact would be severe.

Austin would lose an estimated 145,890 total hotel room nights and a total estimated economic impact of $109,683,377 between now and 2021. That equates to 4-5 groups a year. The Austin Convention Center hosts an average 60 big groups annually, a spokesperson told KXAN.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bathroombill; transgender
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To: Lurker

Too bad for Austin. If the choice is between poverty and faggotry, bring on the poverty.


21 posted on 02/17/2017 5:23:42 PM PST by Mafe
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To: bgill

It has become painfully obvious that the state of Texas will have to close down unless cross-dressing guys can poop next to little girls. It’s a shame. Happened to North Carolina too. The place is a ghost state now.


22 posted on 02/17/2017 5:26:32 PM PST by madprof98
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To: WENDLE

I am with you on this, WENDLE.

Any man trying to enter a restroom that my wife is occupying, would first have to get by me. Even at my age, any man so inclined would find getting past me to be very challenging and painful.

Normal Americans need to show ZERO TOLERANCE for this perverted nonsense.

When it comes to my wife’s safety, politicians and perverts don’t make the laws, I DO.


23 posted on 02/17/2017 5:27:44 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: bgill

I’m laying odds Austin will fold like a cheap suit.


24 posted on 02/17/2017 5:30:07 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: bgill

BS!


25 posted on 02/17/2017 5:33:31 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: bgill

Wow, what a bargain. Should’ve passed it months ago.


26 posted on 02/17/2017 5:34:30 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: bgill

Private businesses can still choose to let men use their women’s facilities open to the public under this bill. The city ordinance took that choice away. Publicly owned sex exclusive areas would require use per the sex on the birth certificate.

Freegards


27 posted on 02/17/2017 5:34:58 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: Gator113

“When it comes to my wife’s safety, politicians and perverts don’t make the laws, I DO.”

Your wife is a lucky woman.


28 posted on 02/17/2017 5:45:15 PM PST by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: bgill

There is an easy solution to all this. First, make it easy for someone who has completed sex reassignment surgery, as attested to by the surgeon who did it, to change the sex on their birth certificate. Then make it illegal to use a bathroom not in alignment with your birth certificate.


29 posted on 02/17/2017 5:49:34 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Austin VB is a gay and lesbian city. I’d be willing to bet these two groups LOVE their bathroom trips where people of their type go.


30 posted on 02/17/2017 5:52:53 PM PST by Terry Mross (Now I understand how dictators gain power. Eventually people want some relief from the idiots.)
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To: Terry Mross

But they have to pretend they’re against the law. When they’re actually all for it.


31 posted on 02/17/2017 5:54:34 PM PST by Terry Mross (Now I understand how dictators gain power. Eventually people want some relief from the idiots.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Transgendered men and women have been using opposite sex restrooms without incident since restrooms existed. Why? Answer: Because they were unobtrusive and acted appropriately.

So?....Why all the upset over this issue now? When it comes to liberal-fascist-Marxism the issue is never the issue. It is something else.

My guess:

The real reason is government K-12 schooling. It's another way to demoralize the nation's youth. ( See the Yuri Besmenov videos.)

32 posted on 02/17/2017 5:56:20 PM PST by wintertime (tStop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: bicyclerepair

This is why you go nowhere without Paul Hogan to get the info for you.


33 posted on 02/17/2017 5:56:49 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Seems to me a man still has all the attractions he would normally have no matter how cut up he is. He would either still be attracted to women or men like a man would be, he would just be cut up to look more like a woman.

Freegards


34 posted on 02/17/2017 5:56:57 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: WENDLE

It’s a shame that Austin is the capital of Texas. It is nothing like the real Texas. It is populated by UT drop outs who never went home, brainwashed Leftists, over 100,999 illegal aliens (many of whom are criminals), social service leeches, and wall-to-wall lobbying groups. Every Austin TV station is Leftist. The failing newspaper is no exception. One radio station broadcasts Rush for 3 hous a day, the only conservative opinion available in this part of Cetral Texas. Yet every county surrounding Austin’s Travis Co. went for Pres. Trump.


35 posted on 02/17/2017 6:20:30 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: bgill

So sell the Austin convention center and spend the proceeds on things like property tax relief, vouchers to attend good private schools, abstinence education, or marksmendhip training conducted by the NRA.


36 posted on 02/17/2017 6:39:35 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: bgill

Well, so what? We in TX cannot allow ourselves to have our laws to be essentially made by effete liberals across the country. We also cannot allow ourselves to set the precedent of being intimidated into adopting leftist liberal ideology and policies.


37 posted on 02/17/2017 6:39:42 PM PST by mtrott
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To: txrefugee

Thank for you testimony of this cesspool. Texas need to regain control of their capitol. I think you will soon see that with their fine governor who has as a belly full of that rottenness.


38 posted on 02/17/2017 7:05:48 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump RULES IMMIGRATION!! Sanctuary crap will STOP or no money. ZERO!!)
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To: Ransomed

The obvious flaw in your theory is homosexuals. They are not attracted to the opposite sex.


39 posted on 02/17/2017 7:07:55 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Gator113

Absolutely NO TOLERANCE for men is women’s bathrooms. To Hell with this bull crap.


40 posted on 02/17/2017 7:08:38 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump RULES IMMIGRATION!! Sanctuary crap will STOP or no money. ZERO!!)
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