I had a LTTE published this morning in the Raleigh News Observer about HB 2

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Here's the text:

It occurred to me, as we were packing to drive to Emerald Isle on Mother’s Day for a week at the beach, that as a resident of North Carolina I can show my profound disagreement with House Bill 2 by enacting a boycott of my own. We may live in North Carolina, but we do not have to vacation here.

Last year, my husband and I spent a total of four weeks (in May, July and October) renting three houses at Emerald Isle. We could just as easily spend those vacation dollars in some other part of the country, or world, rather than do nothing to put our money where our mouths have been in registering our disapproval of HB2.

I guess this will be our last trip to a North Carolina beach until HB2 is repealed. I would encourage my fellow North Carolinians who oppose HB2 to devise a boycott of their own.


http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article78944987.html

AND there are two more excellent OP/ED pieces against HB 2 also appearing on the Opinion pages this morning. I watch the editorial pages every day for sentiment regarding HB 2
and it feels to me as though the opposition is running more strongly against it than in support of it. The Legislature has dug in on this: I really doubt it will be repealed. But I am becoming
more hopeful that voters might turn out a few of the Republicans and that we even have a chance to elect Deborah Ross to replace Senator Richard Burr. https://www.deborahross.com/
Roy Cooper is looking better all the time to take the Governor's office away from Pat McCrory, or Gov. McBigot, as I like to call him.
http://www.roycooper.com/


Here are links to the OP/ED's

The costs of HB 2 that NC simply cannot calculate



From afar North Carolina felt like a welcoming, forward-thinking place 11 years ago

The North Carolina “brand” is in peril

When the brand is tarnished, it can take a long time to repair, if it can be repaired at all


http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article78940782.html

And

HB2 and learning who the enemy is: It’s not the ‘other’




I can see the “carefully taught” lessons plainly juxtaposed against the ungodly consequences and the boiling violence and retaliatory hatred that haunt the world

And so in my mind, I look to home – a place that gives me peace

It should give all its residents peace



http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article78942717.html