Archive for April 2016
Playing the bathroom card. Again
“Do you want Negroes using your toilet facilities?” Campaign flyer, Willis Smith for US Senate, 1950 Every time equal rights take a new step forward, opponents run for the bathroom. They’re doing it now with HB2. They’re scaring people with horror stories about predators attacking girls in bathrooms. In the 1970s, they claimed the Equal…
Read MoreMcCrory’s March Madness
If Pat McCrory loses in November, he’ll regret March. He came into the month like a lion. John Davis wrote that McCrory’s big primary win and passage of the Connect NC bonds positioned him well: “(His) seven terms as Mayor of the City of Charlotte seasoned him well to lead an urban dominant swing state.…
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