Mayors denounce N.C. compromise legislation over HB2

The mayors of Los Angeles, Santa Fe and Salt Lake City reaffirmed their cities’ bans on taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina, after last week’s compromise legislation that repealed North Carolina House Bill 2 but restricts anti-discrimination ordinances in N.C. cities and counties.

A city council member in Cincinnati said he wants his city to keep its boycott, too.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he will do “everything in my power to make sure that Angelenos’ tax dollars are never spent to support bigotry based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

“Every American deserves to live free of discrimination, and the law signed last week by Governor Cooper does nothing to protect the rights and dignity of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters,” Garcetti said in a statement released late Monday by the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign.

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