Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) (nc.gov, Screengrab)
The costs keep mounting in NC, and going by all appearances, McCrory simply doesn’t care in the least. I keep trying to figure out why there is this pig-headed obstinacy in hanging on to HB 2, and all I can come up with is that McCrory is doing this to save face. Or he thinks this is face-saving, because it seems to me that any idiot could figure out the costs far outweigh any perceived benefit.
The price tag for keeping North Carolina’s HB2 on the books just keeps getting more and more expensive.
In a review by the Associate Press, Gov. Pat McCrory and state legislative leaders have run up more than $176,000 in legal fees to defend the law, which prevents transgender people from using restrooms and changing rooms matching their gender identity.
That’s likely not the total because some firms have yet to bill the state for their work on the legal battle between the state and the Department of Justice.
State taxpayers will have to eat those real costs, in addition to the estimated $100 million in lost potential revenue after the NBA withdrew the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte over the controversial law.
There’s also that $500,000 that was pulled out of the state’s disaster relief fund a while back. Taxpayers cannot be happy with this, any more than the massive tab some Arizona taxpayers are faced with over Arpaio. I don’t know why people keep such assholes in office, but it’s time to kick them out on their arses, and get competent representation.
Via Out.
If McCreepy believes what he’s saying, he should tax churches and get them to pay for it. They’re the ones who wanted the ability to peer and leer in public bathrooms, not the average person in that state.
I suspect Arpaio knows he can never leave his job while alive. Even if his successor is a “friend”, Arpaio’s criminal acts are too many and too widespread to cover up.
McWhiney will likely be an ex-governor next year. I hope all the voters of NC (who aren’t inconvenienced by the republican efforts to keep “those people” from voting) kick him and his bigoted cohorts to the curb in November. It can’t happen soon enough.
That sounds incredibly optimistic. People are evil. If they have a chance to hurt others while hurting themselves they’ll do 9 times out of 10.
Please note that the linked article still lists Arpaio as popular. I have a feeling that the bigger the costs the stronger his (and HB2’s) support gets.
At times like these I’m reminded of Goering’s “Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.” Say what you will about Nazis, but they sure knew the human psyche well.