SF Mayor Bans City Workers from Traveling to NC

[euphemia]

Pander to some, punish the rest:

“Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.”

Link

This is the same sanctuary city that takes a lot of government money and defies federal immigration law.

 

[presence]

I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel

I agree with this

 

[Brian4Liberty]

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said in a statement Friday he doesn’t want any city workers to travel to North Carolina unless necessary in wake of its legislation which blocks anti-discrimination for gay, lesbian and transgender people.

“We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals,” Lee said in the statement.

“Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.”

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill this week to void a Charlotte ordinance that would’ve provided protections against discrimination in public accommodations.
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The law also prevents other cities and counties from passing anti-discrimination rules and imposes a statewide standard that leaves out protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to KTVU-TV.

Gay rights leaders and transgender people said the legislation demonizes the community and espouses bogus claims about increasing the risk of sexual assaults. They say the law will deny lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people essential protections needed to ensure they can get a hotel room, hail a taxi or dine at a restaurant without fear.

Of course there is no detail at all about what exactly this local ordinance would have actually done. Did it have an economic impact? Unintended consequences? Was it nothing more than a feel good ordinance with no practical impact? Would it generate lawsuits or Police action?

Seems like a matter for the city of Charlotte. What is the precedent in NC for the State overturning local ordinances? What does the NC State Constitution allow and not allow in terms of over-riding local laws? Is this an Amendment to the NC Constitution?

KTVU-TV reported that Facebook and Apple have expressed its displeasure with the North Carolina law.

Now this could get interesting. Tech companies have a large presence in NC.

The NBA has also mulled relocating its 2017 All-Star Game which was scheduled to be played in Charlotte. “[We] do not yet know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte,” the statement read. "The NBA is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment to all who attend our games and event," the association said.

LOL. Punish the city of Charlotte for something the State officials did? Seems that Charlotte was on the politically correct side, why punish the city?

 

[Tywysog Cymru]

San Francisco Mayor Doesn't Want City Workers Travelling to North Carolina

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...workers-from-traveling-to-north-carolina.html

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said in a statement Friday he doesn’t want any city workers to travel to North Carolina unless necessary in wake of its legislation which blocks anti-discrimination for gay, lesbian and transgender people.“We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals,” Lee said in the statement.
“Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.”
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill this week to void a Charlotte ordinance that would’ve provided protections against discrimination in public accommodations.

It's like governments of New York City and San Francisco are having a competition to see who can be the most out of touch with reality. New York wanted to police soda sizes, but I don't think that the NYC ever restricted what people could do outside of the city.

 

[asurfaholic]

This is pure lunacy.

Meanwhile in NC we are celebrating the chimp McCroy for keeping those California nutbags out of our beautiful state.

 

[euphemia]

Charlotte passed an ordinance about transgenders and public restrooms. The state passed a law that nullifies the Charlotte ordinance.

This is the same sort of blackmail done to Arizona because they wouldn't pass MLK day.

And Georgia is on the politically correct radar because they want to recognize religious liberty.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This is pure lunacy.

Meanwhile in NC we are celebrating the chimp McCroy for keeping those California nutbags out of our beautiful state.

Too late for that. You let them establish a beachhead in RTP. The infestation will spread.

 

[Lucille]

"I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory."
--Bob Hope

It won't be long now.

 

[presence]

Of course there is no detail at all about what exactly this local ordinance would have actually done. Did it have an economic impact? Unintended consequences? Was it nothing more than a feel good ordinance with no practical impact? Would it generate lawsuits or Police action?

more detail here

NC governor signs bill repealing Charlotte transgender bathroom law

and here
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015E2/Bills/House/HTML/H2v0.html


The charlotte bill allowed people to enter bathroom of choice to match their "gender identity".
The NC bill requires you to use the bathroom as per "biological sex as indicated on birth certificate".


There has been an ongoing "tranny bathroom rights" campaign going since 2012:


Transgender woman told to leave women’s locker room
Started by presence, 11-02-2012

 

[Working Poor]

Where were these people peeing before all this stuff happened?

 

[RJB]

If people who are against this debate want to end it ASAP, just start dressing up a bunch of very masculine men in dresses and attempt to enter the women's room. The outcry to end this lunacy would be deafening.

 

[euphemia]

This is so stupid. There are other solutions. Many places have family restrooms designed so a husband who needs to assist his wife in the restroom does not have to deal with the hassle of doing so in a single sex restroom. They are usually built to accommodate a couple of adults, wheelchairs, strollers, and small children. It seems to me that a person who wants privacy while respecting the rights of others could use one of those. Go in, lock the door, do the business, then come out. If we are redefining gender, we might as redefine the family while we're at it. "I'm a single family."

Women's restrooms usually have stalls with doors. I wouldn't be all that comfortable having a man in the restroom, but s/he's not going to see anything.

 

[puppetmaster]

If people who are against this debate want to end it ASAP, just start dressing up a bunch of very masculine men in dresses and attempt to enter the women's room. The outcry to end this lunacy would be deafening.

great idea. Of course they would call it a hate crime.....

 

[puppetmaster]

How about everyone has to wear diapers and sit in their own shit. They can wipe up the mess when they geTry home.

 

[presence]

Where were these people peeing before all this stuff happened?

I think the levels of atrazine and birth control residue in the city tap water were just lower back then.

 

[euphemia]

I think transgendered people are going to find out what women have known for years: There is no potty parity anwhere. If the plane just arrived, the line will be out to the concourse, so expect to have to wait your turn like everyone else. If you are at a concert, expect to wait your turn, and expect them to ask about your shoes. If you are at a sporting event, be prepared to walk down two flights of stairs, and expect to wait your turn.

What I'm saying is be careful what you demand a law for. It only gets you in the line, not to the front of the line.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

Maybe instead of a city law regulating toilet usage, and maybe instead of a state law regulating toilet usage ...-- now follow me here, this may sound a little wacky -- maybe each individual business should be able to set is own toilet usage rules?

Just throwing that out there.

 

[specsaregood]

Maybe instead of a city law regulating toilet usage, and maybe instead of a state law regulating toilet usage ...-- now follow me here, this may sound a little wacky -- maybe each individual business should be able to set is own toilet usage rules?

Just throwing that out there.

The argument then would be that there is no standard an nobody would know what the rules or what to expect from any given restroom unless business owners put up a sign with the list of rules outside the door. Also you don't address restrooms at govt facilities

fwiw: this appears to be the text of the bill:
http://www.ncleg.net/Applications/BillLookUp/LoadBillDocument.aspx?DocNum=2&SeqNum=0

 

[euphemia]

Some places only have one restroom with one seat. That's their problem solved, but for a place like McDonalds, it would be a lot different.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Maybe instead of a city law regulating toilet usage, and maybe instead of a state law regulating toilet usage ...-- now follow me here, this may sound a little wacky -- maybe each individual business should be able to set is own toilet usage rules?

Just throwing that out there.

That's fine, but even still North Carolina should prohibit a progressive city from forcing business owners to accomodate ****-perversion... lesser magistrate rules only apply when the lesser magistrate is acting righteously... the higher magistrate should absolutely not allow them to force wickedness on their citizens