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NY’s Gov Cuomo Banned All ‘Non-Essential’ State Travel to NC After Anti-LGBTQ Bill Signing
Mediaite.com ^ | 3/29/16 | Lindsey Ellefson

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executive order was released to Cuomo’s website yesterday and is a response to McRory signing a fast-tracked bill that repealed every local piece of legislation in place to protect LGBTQ+ people and mandated that they use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex they were assigned at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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: cuomo; homoagenda; homosexualagenda
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To: Impala64ssa

Tax dollars should never be spent on any “state travel”, because none of it is ever essential. Privatize all government services, and make contractors pay out of their own pockets for any travel-related expenses. Of course, Cuomo only cares about his precious sodomites and not about saving money.


21 posted on 03/29/2016 10:51:50 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Impala64ssa

But Cuba is still okay............................


22 posted on 03/29/2016 10:51:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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To: Read Write Repeat

Yes, it is insanity but it works. These type of acts are some evidence asd to why the left is in control-THEY ACT-often in unison-like a choreographed ballet. Conservatives will sit around babbling about principles and DO NOTHING!


23 posted on 03/29/2016 10:52:42 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Good question

How about just banning ALL “nonessential travel”
what idiots they are

LOL!


24 posted on 03/29/2016 10:54:01 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Impala64ssa

Few people realize that Cary, North Carolina is actually an acronym: C.A.R.Y.

It stands for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.

True story. ;-)


25 posted on 03/29/2016 10:55:23 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Impala64ssa

I’m Italian and know what that meant.

My father didn’t vote for the father and I didn’t vote for the son.

can’t stand them.

If it wasn’t for wife’s very good job in Manhattan and her not wanting to leave her mother, I’d be GONE!

though staten island’s not so bad. very conservative.


26 posted on 03/29/2016 10:55:33 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Angels27

Weird. Republicans have been ascending for six years, with the House, a near Senate sweep, huge gains in the governorships and massive gains in statehouses and locally. I don’t think you are correct in this analysis.


27 posted on 03/29/2016 10:55:42 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Read Write Repeat

Nothing but “Essential Travel” should be made on state money anyway. Moron!


28 posted on 03/29/2016 10:56:05 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Impala64ssa

As an ex-NYer living in NC I wish that Cuomo could ban ALL NYers from coming here PERIOD!


29 posted on 03/29/2016 10:56:13 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Impala64ssa

I consider myself to be something of a Tarheel in exile. NY is much closer to me than NC, but I will be in NC a long time before I am in NY.


30 posted on 03/29/2016 11:00:15 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: Impala64ssa

What the hell is “LGBTQ+”?

We used to simply call these vermin perverts. Now they’re a pathetic protected class of perverts.


31 posted on 03/29/2016 11:00:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Impala64ssa

As an ex-Ny’er I thoroughly despise that sanctimonious prick living large off Daddy’s name. And that includes that tall Wilhelm schmuck as well.


32 posted on 03/29/2016 11:01:30 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: Impala64ssa

I think, just to be safe, Gov. Cuomo should recall all New Yorkers back to their homeland. Maybe Governor Christie can get on board as well...


33 posted on 03/29/2016 11:01:58 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Harpotoo

Uh-oh. See post# 25 above. LOL.


34 posted on 03/29/2016 11:02:42 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Read Write Repeat

That’s Andy Cumo. Il Supremo II...


35 posted on 03/29/2016 11:04:21 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Impala64ssa
The idea that New York office holders should seek to intimidate the Government of a sister-state in the Union, into denying basic freedom of conscience and decision making among its people, should offend anyone; that is anyone who appreciates the concept of liberty, as Americans once understood it.

This is a disgusting insult to the people of North Carolina; it is also a clear betrayal of the fundamental precepts of our common heritage.

36 posted on 03/29/2016 11:06:36 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan
Let me add one thought to my post above:

To be consistent with this attack on basic liberty by the totalitarian Governor of New York and the Marxist Mayor of New York City:

Will they next demand that the Biblical account of Lot fleeing Sodom be redacted from all Bibles in New York public libraries?! I mean, would that not be consistent with the philosophy behind this idiocy? Or do they not dare go that far, lest their own citizens decide enough is really way beyond enough!

37 posted on 03/29/2016 11:13:40 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Impala64ssa

Boy, North Carolina looks like it’s becoming a better and better place to live!!!


38 posted on 03/29/2016 11:15:35 AM PDT by dware (Contested convention = final nail in the GOP coffin)
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To: Impala64ssa

NY and San Fran need a few counter bans to make them cut this garbage out.


39 posted on 03/29/2016 11:16:38 AM PDT by csivils
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To: Blue Jays

Yeah that’s why I moved to APEX:-) The Peak of Good Living!
http://time.com/money/3984379/apex-north-carolina-best-places-to-live-2015-2/


40 posted on 03/29/2016 11:18:59 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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