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Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls, Governor McCrory

5/9/2016

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   Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina must either not have taken physics in high school,
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 ...or if he did he must not have paid attention in class.  In any case he seems to have missed learning somewhere along the way one of the basic laws of physics:  For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
      This is too bad for Pat McCrory and his state, because the outraged reaction to his ill-conceived law forbidding transgenders to use the public restrooms of their gender identification has been coming home to roost for weeks now, with businesses and corporate investors pulling out and entertainers and conventions cancelling their North Carolina venues. 
       But today is the true day of reckoning for McCrory, when this misdeed of his recent past must be either atoned for or commensurately punished.   Last week The United States Justice Department informed the Governor that his anti-transgender bathroom law,  known as HB2,  violates the Civil Rights Act and gave him until 5 pm today to revoke enforcement of this law and another law forbidding North Carolina cities to forbid (double negatives are never up to any good) LGBTQA* discrimination.  If he does not meet this deadline with the appropriate response then over a billion federal dollars in education funding will be cut off from the state, including funding of North Carolina's public universities and federally-backed loans to students attending those universities.
       But while the minutes tick away to financial disaster for North Carolina, McCrory balks and gripes, his image of big-talking machismo more important to him than than the welfare the people who elected him as their state's steward.
      "It's the federal government being a bully,"  he whined to Fox News yesterday.
      What it actually is is the bully whining  that he's being bullied.
      Whine, gripe, file lawsuits, balk away the minutes and the hours until then, but today at 5 pm the bell will toll for you, Governor Pat McCrory.

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     And henceforth you will be political toast.

*Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Asexual {or Ally of the LGBTQA's, which is me.  And, hopefully, you, too 8) }.

References:
1.  http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/politics/north-carolina-hb2-justice-department-deadline/

2.  https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-gov-faces-feds-monday-deadline-lgbt-070443699.html

3.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-gov-pat-mccrory-faces-monday-deadline-lgbt-law-n570396

4.  http://abc11.com/politics/north-carolina-gov-pat-mccrory-files-lawsuit-against-department-of-justice-over-hb2/1329947/

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