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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:59 AM Mar 2017

NCAA Gives North Carolina Ultimatum: Repeal HB2 Now or Lose All Sports Events Till 2022

On yesterday’s anniversary of the passage of anti-LGBT law HB2, the NCAA again warned North Carolina that it must repeal the law now, or lose any opportunity to host games for five years.

Wrote the NCAA:


“Last year, the NCAA Board of Governors relocated NCAA championships scheduled in North Carolina because of the cumulative impact HB2 had on local communities’ ability to assure a safe, healthy, discrimination free atmosphere for all those watching and participating in our events. Absent any change in the law, our position remains the same regarding hosting current or future events in the state. As the state knows, next week our various sports committees will begin making championships site selections for 2018-2022 based upon bids received from across the country. Once the sites are selected by the committee, those decisions are final and an announcement of all sites will be made on April 18.”


State lawmakers were warned of this last month but HB2 still stands.

http://www.towleroad.com/2017/03/hb2-ncaa/
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NCAA Gives North Carolina Ultimatum: Repeal HB2 Now or Lose All Sports Events Till 2022 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
Thanks Republicans oswaldactedalone Mar 2017 #1
Yeah for the NCAA Gothmog Mar 2017 #2
Unfortunately they do not care. They believe they are invincible due to money and gerrymandering. Ford_Prefect Mar 2017 #3

Ford_Prefect

(8,198 posts)
3. Unfortunately they do not care. They believe they are invincible due to money and gerrymandering.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 08:29 AM
Mar 2017

Any threat by "outsiders" only reinforces that sense that they are right. The majority of the NC GOP legislators were recruited as zealots to the cause and were carefully vetted by Art Pope. During the last 20 years he shaped the state party by excluding those who were not to his disturbed tastes.

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