Mayors of NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle Ban Travel to NC

Mayors of NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle Ban Travel to NC Mar 28, 2016 18:58:24 GMT -6

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Post by Logan on Mar 28, 2016 18:58:24 GMT -6

Mayors of NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle Ban Travel to NC Over Anti-LGBT Law

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray are banning city officials from travel to North Carolina over the recently-passed HB2, which not only overturned Charlotte’s LGBT ordinance, but banned all LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances statewide and also prohibited local municipalities from setting the minimum wage higher than the state.

Murray issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting the use of city funds for travel to and from the Tarheel State.

De Blasio, during a Monday news conference with reporters, said he would be doing the same:

“Yes, we’ve initiated a non-essential travel ban for North Carolina as of today, and in the event that the governor’s veto in Georgia is overridden, we will do so for Georgia as well,” de Blasio said Monday afternoon at an unrelated press conference.

“I think it’s quite clear that voices of conscience all over the country are expressing outrage at these decisions which are reinstituting discrimination against the LGBT community,” he said, adding, “My hope is that both these states will relent, but we certainly are not going to have any non-essential travel to those states if these laws do continue in effect.”