Posted on 03/29/2016 10:38:17 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
In a move that North Carolina’s governor Pat McRory is calling “political theater” along with the rest of the opposition to his latest bill signing, New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio have both moved to ban “non-essential” state travel to North Carolina.
The executive order was released to Cuomo’s website yesterday and is a response to McRory signing a fast-tracked bill that repealed every local piece of legislation in place to protect LGBTQ+ people and mandated that they use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth. According to The Slot, the bill was voted on an hour after its introduction in the state’s House and some lawmakers didn’t even get to read it.
The executive order reads like this:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed an executive order banning all non-essential state travel to North Carolina. The order requires all New York State agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel to the state of North Carolina, and bar any such publicly funded travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety.
The ban, which takes effect immediately, follows North Carolina’s enactment of a law which bars transgender individuals from using restrooms appropriate for their gender identities, excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from state anti-discrimination protections, and prohibits municipalities from extending those protections to LGBT citizens.
Cuomo and de Blasio’s ban is reminiscent of the threats made by companies like Disney and AMC to Georgia this week when the state’s governor was considering signing a bill that would protect citizens’ rights to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community on religious grounds. Over 20 companies threatened to boycott the state and it worked: the governor vetoed the controversial bill. Further, Cuomo has done this before. In 2015, Indiana had passed a similar bill that he, like the governors of Washington and Connecticut, thought protected citizens who wished to discriminate against anyone identifying as LGBTQ+. They all signed executive orders banning state-funded travel to Indiana. Once the law was amended to protect LGBTQ+ people, Cuomo reversed his order.
McRory has been tweeting and giving interviews about his support for the bill, so it doesn’t appear that North Carolina will follow Indiana’s lead anytime soon.
This is insanity!
Wow. That is jacked up.
Governor Cuomo Bans Non-Essential State Travel to North Carolina
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-bans-non-essential-state-travel-north-carolina
...
The ban, which takes effect immediately, follows North Carolina’s enactment of a law which bars transgender individuals from using restrooms appropriate for their gender identities, excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from state anti-discrimination protections, and prohibits municipalities from extending those protections to LGBT citizens.
...
So, protecting the privacy of little girls in the bathroom is “anti-LGBTO”? And I also recall that during Obama’s first term the Dems made a habit of introducing bills and calling them up for a vote so fast the Republicans didn’t even have a chance to read them.
What is “non=essential” travel? since tax dollars should be spend on essential travel only.
One wonders how much “non-essential” travel for bureaucrats the NY peasants are paying for.
This country is in serious trouble. The majority of this country are now democrats and there is no way to keep them from power. Hillary will be the next president and Democrats will continue to gain and hold power.
We have to look back the Revolutionary War now. In those times, the majority of the country were willing to remain under British rule. It was the minority that wanted freedom the took up the battle and won.
We have to do the same now. Democrats can not be defeated at the polls. But they can be defeated in warfare.
North Carolina needs to keep all the “essential” travelers from New Yawk out too.
Yet he encourages travel to Cuba where cross-dressers were imprisoned.
The governor of North Carolina ought to reciprocate. In fact, North Carolinians and anyone else who cares about their state managing its own affairs out to stay out of New York too.
NY State citizens hereby ban Cuomo and his family from traveling to the bathroom in any state, including his own.
LOL, what dweebs, sheeze
Why aren’t more states joining with NC?
Why would someone in New York State Government be spending taxpayer money to go to North Carolina if it WASN’T essential?
I live in NYS, I don't work for the state, and will be happily traveling to NC in two weeks.
Screw Gov. Cuomo's "NY values".
But he’s all for New York officials heading down to kiss Castro’s rump in Cuba!
Cuomo, that’s New-yorkish for fertilizer...
Hmm, a call to arms by a California Freeper that has been here less than a year. Interesting.
Cuomo and DiStupidio make a nice couple as bathroom monitors, perverts of a feather.......
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.