After concession, next N Carolina governor gets to celebrate

Partial Durham recount returns through Sunday showed little change in tallies for Republican Gov. Pat McCrory rammed through the discriminatory House Bill 2 during a special session last March, he not only sanctioned discrimination statewide – he also picked a fight with fair-minded North Carolinians. It’s the same guy who emerged the victor on election night: Attorney General Roy Cooper.

Governor-elect Roy Cooper says he can’t wait to take office in just a few short weeks.

In an email response, Cooper, the state attorney general, thanked Gov. McCrory and his wife for their service to the state, and promised that under his leadership, he will strive to make North Carolina a state that “works for everyone”.

“That is just going to be a very hard thing to deal with”.

North Carolina Gov. -elect Roy Cooper speaks to a crowd of supporters a day after his opponent, incumbent Gov.

Cooper’s legislative director will be Brad Adcock, who was a lobbyist for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and served on the UNC Board of Governors. The North Carolina NAACP sued immediately, and after three years of litigation, a federal court made clear the law had intentionally targeted African-Americans with “almost surgical precision”.

Barber notes that his group began its actions at the legislature in 2007, when Democrats were in charge, and he says the NAACP’s events will continue regardless of who’s in power.

He said 57 percent of Cooper voters said HB2 was their top issue. It led to companies, sports organizations and entertainers pulling their business from the state, costing hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in spending.

“I expect there are ways that Governor-elect Cooper could use political appointments and other executive orders to send a message more welcoming to the LGBT community, but he can’t do that in a way that violates HB2”, Eichner said.

In the month since the election, Trump has been meeting with a steady stream of lawmakers, businessmen, military leaders and media figures in his 58th-floor triplex in Trump Tower. Does Trump have a place for the five-watt bulb McCrory in the administration. “It was the state legislature that passed the bill – and the state legislature remains Republican”.

“Leave it the way it is”.

In this year’s re-election bid, McCrory’s team tried to use HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill”, to rally a base around fear of transgender neighbors.

“I look forward to working with him and finding common ground on ideas that will move North Carolina forward”, Hardister said.

“This is kind of meeting, you go into listening to what the president-elect is interested in”, Lassiter said. “When it comes to tax reform, when it comes to education reform, when it comes to deregulating our economy and getting it going again and those things would just fit very well in a lot of the things Mr. Trump has said he wants to do in his administration”, Woodhouse said.