Post by pavel on Apr 8, 2016 22:20:16 GMT -6
Reed to Charlotte: The travel ban stays
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts wants Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and other elected officials, to rescind travel bans imposed on their employees doing business in North Carolina.
Reed, Friday afternoon, said no dice.
Hizzoner, and the mayors of New York, San Francisco and Seattle, prohibited non-essential travel to the Tar Heel State after its governor signed legislation deemed discriminatory to gays, lesbians and transgendered people. The law also prohibits municipalities from establishing their own anti-discrimination ordinances and denies transgendered men and women the choice of bathroom.
N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory’s signing of HB 2, in response to Charlotte’s passage of an anti-discrimination ordinance, has caused a national uproar beyond the banning of travel by cities and states. Corporations have canceled, and threatened to cancel, projects in North Carolina.
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/5-things-know-tonight-mayor-reed-refuses-lift-trav/nq22Z/
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts wants Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and other elected officials, to rescind travel bans imposed on their employees doing business in North Carolina.
Reed, Friday afternoon, said no dice.
Hizzoner, and the mayors of New York, San Francisco and Seattle, prohibited non-essential travel to the Tar Heel State after its governor signed legislation deemed discriminatory to gays, lesbians and transgendered people. The law also prohibits municipalities from establishing their own anti-discrimination ordinances and denies transgendered men and women the choice of bathroom.
N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory’s signing of HB 2, in response to Charlotte’s passage of an anti-discrimination ordinance, has caused a national uproar beyond the banning of travel by cities and states. Corporations have canceled, and threatened to cancel, projects in North Carolina.
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/5-things-know-tonight-mayor-reed-refuses-lift-trav/nq22Z/