North Carolina GOP now in full-on delusional damage control after losing PayPal over HB2

[babylonsister]

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North Carolina GOP now in full-on delusional damage control after losing PayPal over HB2
By Kerry Eleveld
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016 · 3:55 PM EST


Within hours of news Tuesday that PayPal had pulled the plug on a 400-job facility in Charlotte because, it said, the state's new law "perpetuates discrimination," the Republican Party started a mad display of Yosemite-Sam style finger pointing.

First, the state's GOP Vice-Chairman Michele Nix questioned whether PayPal was ever even worthy of North Carolina.

So after PayPal was forced to settle after violating economic sanctions on Cuba, Sudan, and Iran, and even processed payments for someone looking to buy nuclear-weapon technology on the black market, the California-based company now has a problem doing business in North Carolina?

Yeah, we didn’t want your nasty 400-job expansion anyway. Hurrumph. Now those are some serious biz-dev skills. Work it, Michele!

My, how times have changed. Just a couple weeks ago, McCrory was singing PayPal's praises:

“North Carolina is the ideal destination for innovation-based, worldwide companies like PayPal,” said Governor McCrory. “Today’s announcement means that we can add another prominent name to the state’s growing list of technology businesses with major operations here.”

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Honestly, it's hard to fathom that the North Carolina Republican Party would expose just how unsophisticated it is in such a short amount of time, but it is literally unraveling before our very eyes and in spectacular fashion. The state's GOP leaders—who are supposedly pro-business—have now sent the message loud and clear that their pre-Enlightenment view of "family values" trumps any 21st-Century business ethic. Oh, and if you don't agree with them, they'll tar and feather you publicly.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Many of us are watching the NC GOP unravel with great delight: it's only 7 months until we can vote

the bums out!

HB 2--and the blowback from it--just may have taken a lot of people off the fence when it comes to getting out to
vote for Dems here in November.

It's also interesting to see that a group of liberal clergy have gotten together in Charlotte to fight HB 2.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article70052712.html

[Katashi_itto]

2. K&R!

[7wo7rees]

3. Look no further than Pinehurst, NC

"The Cradle of American Golf"
www.pinehurst.com

The "rents" live there. Voted for Kasich.



Currently on not talking terms after last discussion over "socialism" and Bernie. Future of grandkids.......

[KamaAina]

28. So will the USGA stop holding the U.S. Open there every few years?

[7wo7rees]

30. I don't think so.. . .

I read online today the 2016 Masters is there.

Honestly the privilege there is extreme, beyond your wildest imaginations..

Special.......😎 not.

[KamaAina]

31. Wait, wut? The Masters is always at Augusta National.

Could you be thinking of the PGA Championship?

[Lodestar]

4. North Carolina's GOP prefer their own kind.

[retrowire]

5. so happy my state is being nationally shamed.

seriously. my state is progressive as hell in many areas and crazier than shit in others. its a fair balance out here in the real world, but our political structure is thoroughly one sided. it sucks.

[DrBulldog]

6. $84. The price of freedom.

The price of a bus ticket from North Carolina to Oregon.

[mnhtnbb]

9. For $675. I can fly--one way--to Lihue on the island of Kauai

on January 2, 2017.

I've told my husband to expect that if the Dems don't hold the White House AND we don't get rid of McCrory as governor
here in NC, then he should expect I'm going to want to make a trip in November for a look/see to find a place to
live on Kauai. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life living where bigots and gun nuts control government.

I have loved living in Chapel Hill from when we moved here in 2000 until the Republicans took over the state government
in 2012. They have been out to destroy everything progressive and wonderful about NC--particularly the university
town of Chapel Hill. And they're out to destroy the university now, with the hiring of Bush's Education Secretary,
Margaret Spellings, as President of the UNC System. They'll privatize everything they can get their hands on (already
started with the Student Book Store) and chase away good professors that don't bow down to Ayn Rand thinking.

I could never live in the Pacific Northwest: too many cloudy/rainy days. Not going back to California. Forget Florida.
New York is too cold in the winter.

No, I think it might be time for the far away tropical island.

[SDJay]

14. My Wife and I Got Married on Kauai

and we go there for a few weeks every winter. There's no place like it in the world. It's a place where our souls are recharged. It's living Aloha in its truest form. Poipu, where we got married, Hanalei, Napali Coast... for an island so small you'd be hard-pressed to see everything in a month.

Highly recommended place.

[mnhtnbb]

18. It's beautiful.

Maui has gotten way too developed. Oahu is crazy: Honolulu is a big city!
The Big Island might be a 2nd choice, but I really think Kauai is just big enough we could actually manage to live there. Islands are tough.
My husband did his internship year--a very long time ago--at Queens in Honolulu, so he's really wary of living full time on an island.
But we'd have the resources to get off a couple times a year. The biggest problem for me is how long it takes to fly anywhere.
We've thought about St. Croix or St. Thomas (couldn't afford St. John), because of less flying time to visit our boys on the mainland, but
I'd be too concerned about hurricanes.

I'm 65 and he's 73. I figure I might have 20 good years left--if I'm lucky--and I'll be damned if I'm going to live them in fear of
bigots and gun nuts.

[AlbertCat]

7. The NC Yahoo legislature.... bought and paid for by Art Pope & the Kochs....

.... has been "governing" by pet peeve since it started. There is zero concern for the good of the state. It's just stupid stuff like State Religions and a deliberate attempt to rid the state of what they think are liberal thinking people like teachers and the motion picture industry and stunts like this transgender "problem", that really doesn't exist. Be sure to protect Duke Power while you're at it!

But don't move to Oregon! (too cold and wet with earthquakes)... they won't last forever.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

8. Pittsburgh's open for business,

PayPal is welcome!

[awoke_in_2003]

25. Better football team, too. nt

[yortsed snacilbuper]

33. We like labor unions,

so a lot of companies avoid Pittsburgh?

[awoke_in_2003]

34. Pittsburgh was built on unions

They may have forgotten, but they will remember before any city in Dixie will

[zentrum]

10. Go GOP! Implode yourself!

[closeupready]

11. Karma sucks, baby.

K&R

[NewJeffCT]

12. Blue states should start actively

trying to get these companies to move to more open-minded locations.

[Purrfessor]

13. They could always recruit discriminatory-friendly businesses like...

God Hates Fags Apparel Company

Or

LGBT No Siree!, Incorporated

Surely these companies would add 10 or 12 jobs to the North Carolina economy.

[Initech]

15. This law was an extremely terrible idea and thankfully people are letting North Carolina have it.

Unfortunately that didn't stop Mississippi or Indiana from passing these garbage laws.

[JoeyT]

23. No one near and dear to Mississippi has threatened to pull out yet.

You let Ingalls decide they're not going to be in a state with discriminatory laws and within a couple days there will be an official State of Mississippi LGBT acceptance week with all kinds of parades and events. Alabama would even kick in half on the decorations.

[Mother Of Four]

16. We know a young lady

Who identifies as (R) but not as the party is now. Instead of leaving it she's bent bound and determined to keep pushing to bring some respect back to the party.

I admire her, but I really think it's going to be like trying to push a wet noodle up a hill with your nose. Possible, but not too dang likely.

(We live in NC)

I don't agree with her political views more than 2/3 the time, but she gives well thought out and REASONED responses unlike the majority of mouth breathers we have here. I hope she's able to do it though. A political system of complete yes men is just as bad as an obstructionist one. We have to have differing views to be able to make things equal. Unfortunately the (R)'s are howling moonbats for the most part. There is NO meeting in the middle anymore. I'm cringing as a write this - I would really like a NEW party to rise up to fill the R's place.

This poor girl is a dying breed.

[JBoy]

17. More damage - Lionsgate is moving production of a TV series out of NC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027741734

[TBF]

19. The banks in Charlotte

are likely next. NC is going to regret their backwards attitudes. Best way to hit them is in the pocketbook.

[turbinetree]

20. You just gotta love how a state has been over run by one ART POPE......................

and his Koch connections with this right wing governor and legislature bowing down like serf's at the table of stupidity ......................






Honk----------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[ladyVet]

21. Pocketbooks are going to hurt, but it's the poor and working class who will suffer.

The rich bastards running this place won't be counting pennies. They can smirk while jobs continue to leave. Still plenty of rubes to raise taxes on.

[hollowdweller]

22. What is exactly the deal with NC??

I go down there and I see diverse modern cities, seems to be a lot of diversity. Most of the people I talk to seem reasonable and well educated.

Yet when I hear about the gov't and laws passed it's like they are being written by a bunch of rednecks up some hollow in a backwash somewhere.

Do all the reasonable people set out the elections?

[underpants]

27. It actually is very progressive for a southern state

I post this as a neighbor to the north (Va.) who visits at least once a year.

NC is very progressive especially in their state university system. Voting wise they elected John Edwards and Jesse Helms eeked out victories ( 3-8%) wins.

The story of NC recently is that of the Republicans catching the DNC flat footed by spelling small sums to win statehouses it's happened in several states. The candidates for the Repubs are party picked so the more extreme get to run. Once in office they just go flipping nuts.

[FighttheFuture]

24. It's hard to fathom how many stupid fucks there are in NC who keep voting these assclowns in again

and again. I hope they start waking up, but, well... it is the South.

[phylny]

36. From the South here.

Please understand how horribly gerrymandered we are. I'm in Virginia, and my area will NEVER be blue, but I think it's telling that the commonwealth voted for a Democratic president, governor and attorney general, yet the statehouse is Republican. When you add us all together, we're blue; when we're divided artificially, we're red.

[FighttheFuture]

37. Sorry. I wish the south would "rise again" and do something about their "masters". The ones who

are actually oppressing and stealing their opportunities to express their freedoms! That's what is occurring, the gerrymandering and voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

[awoke_in_2003]

26. Technology businesses

are mainly manned by the young. They tend not to be as bigoted as the older generation. Good luck attracting any of them there.

[malaise]

29. They will learn the hard way

[Arugula Latte]

32. Didn't these Republican dipshits learn their lesson from Indiana's example?

Apparently not.

[eridani]

35. Schadenfreude!! It's what's for dinner! n/t

[wildeyed]

38. What is really sad,

McCrory used to be Charlotte's mayor and was elected to as governor on the strength of his business/progressive Republican bonafides. *I* knew that he had already gone over to the dark side, but I knew quite a few Democrats who voted for him. SMH. Bet they are sorry now.