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executive order was released to Cuomo’s website yesterday and is a response to McRory signing a fast-tracked bill that repealed every local piece of legislation in place to protect LGBTQ+ people and mandated that they use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex they were assigned at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.
Status Cuomo is one of the most arrogant pieces of excrement Albany has ever seen.
This will be a net benefit for the Tar Heel state.
Yep. the Triangle is a northeast liberal turd hole.
It is becoming obvious that the Democrats and Republicans have joined together to form a coalition dedicated to maintaining themselves in a unified party sole goal is directed to obtain money, perks and eternal re-election for themselves. They no longer care for the general welfare.
The appointment of the recent Supreme Court nominee is a case in point. The negro community organizer nominates an extreme liberal anti-gun judge, the Republicans at point in time number 1 state affirmatively they will not even consider him. At point two a few break ranks; at point three in time the Republican flood starts. In point of time 4 hearings are held and he is appointed. The mere passage of time, the public's forgetfulness, and a press boom puts him in office. At point in time 5 explanations by the Republic leadership abound. At point in time 6 America slides further down the slope into Third World hell.
The same Andrew Cuomo supported by and donated to by Trump.
Making America Great Again....
As a fellow Apexian I have to ask that you quit posting that article or any like it. ;)
SC should tax the carpetbaggers anyway.
What a jerk. New Yorker’s elected this idiot? Why?
Very few people think through a situation a question asks.
I don’t know many gay people. But I would imagine that they aren’t too happy being lumped in with the transwhatever movement. Then again...
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