Only one GOP governor lost his re-election bid in 2016: Pat McCrory, the guy who signed North Carolina's “HB2” bathroom bill into law. He also became the first ever incumbent Tar Heel governor not to win re-election in the history of the state. Enticing, right? Reid Wilson writes:
Republican legislators in eight states are opening new fronts in the heated fight over transgender rights, having filed measures aimed at restricting access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
Legislators in Alabama, South Carolina and Washington filed so-called bathroom bills last year, before their respective sessions opened. Lawmakers in Kentucky, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia filed similar bills in the opening days of their sessions this year.
Most of the measures are modeled on a law passed last year in North Carolina ...
Naturally, Alabama’s bill is among the worst, trying to prohibit bathroom access at all facilities rather than just public schools and state-government run facilities.
It would levy fines from $2,000 to $3,500 for businesses that do not comply with the single-sex bathroom rules.
About two dozen states have attempted to pass bathroom bills in the past several years; North Carolina was first state to successfully enact one. What a whopping success that was.
Yet another lesson in idiocy knows no bounds.