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Shocking: Jennifer Roberts Can't Name A Single City That Has Adopted Same Transgender Bathroom Ordinance
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Charlotte Mayor Admits She Followed Lead Of "National Organizations," Hasn't Read Other Ordinances
Raleigh, N.C. Despite repeatedly telling the public and media that she was following the lead of over 200 cities in passing the ordinance that was overturned by a bipartisan vote of the General Assembly, she failed to name one city who had adopted the same open bathroom provision in Charlotte's ordinance when asked by WFAE's Mike Collins radio show, Charlotte Talks.
After being pressed by the host to name other cities, Mayor Roberts finally admits that she hasn't read or studied the ordinances other cities have passed and was following the lead of "national organizations" in pushing for the open bathroom ordinance in Charlotte.
After the bathroom ordinance failed to pass the city council in 2015, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts insisted in bringing it up for a second vote despite warnings from concerned business owners, residents and state officials. After the ordinance passed the city council, it was revealed that one of the lead activists who pushed for the non-discrimination ordinance is a registered and convicted sex offender.
"Despite telling people for months that she is following the lead of cities and towns who have passed similar bathroom ordinances without any problems, Jennifer Roberts finally comes clean and admits she has been following the lead of far-left national organizations all along," said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party. "North Carolinians expect its leaders at all levels of government to listen to the people they represent, not mislead them into following the agenda of Washington, D.C. special interests groups."
Listen: Jennifer Roberts on Charlotte Talks
Transcript:
CHARLOTTE TALKS: You're a Democrat. 8 Democrats in the house yesterday voted for this bill. All of the Democrats in the Senate walked out. How do you explain the difference?
JENNIFER ROBERTS: I wasn't part of those conversations, so I'm not sure what their reasoning was. I know that the side opposed to this did a good job of making it all about one issue, which was not the issue, and did a better job of telling a story about things that have not been happening in the more than 200 cities and counties who have had this ordinance - including Orlando, where Disneyworld is, including Atlanta, including Charleston, Columbia, you know, our South Carolina neighbors have had this for years, cities we compete with - but the other side -
CT: But do those cities have the transgender bathroom ordinance, part of their - ?
JR: They have very similar ordinances.
CT: Do they have the transgender portion in that - in their ordinances?
JR: I can't tell exactly how theirs are all worded, I know that from -
CT: Why don't you know the answer to that question? You told WFAE's Duncan McFadden that you wanted this ordinance because Charlotte needs to stay competitive, you said that to me this morning, and that you were following the lead of over 200 cities that have ordinances in place for years. Why don't you know the answer to that question?
JR: They are like that. They do have that.
CT: Unequivocally you can say that?
JR: I just checked with my source. And I tell you I have not had time to read each of those individual ones. We have gotten information from some national organizations that have been, um, talking about equality and inclusion, and I'm basing it on what we know from them, and that this discussion has happened in other states and other cities, and there have not been the incidences that were worried about.
Contact: North Carolina Republican Party
communications@ncgop.org
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Charlotte Mayor Admits She Followed Lead Of "National Organizations," Hasn't Read Other Ordinances
Raleigh, N.C. Despite repeatedly telling the public and media that she was following the lead of over 200 cities in passing the ordinance that was overturned by a bipartisan vote of the General Assembly, she failed to name one city who had adopted the same open bathroom provision in Charlotte's ordinance when asked by WFAE's Mike Collins radio show, Charlotte Talks.
After being pressed by the host to name other cities, Mayor Roberts finally admits that she hasn't read or studied the ordinances other cities have passed and was following the lead of "national organizations" in pushing for the open bathroom ordinance in Charlotte.
After the bathroom ordinance failed to pass the city council in 2015, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts insisted in bringing it up for a second vote despite warnings from concerned business owners, residents and state officials. After the ordinance passed the city council, it was revealed that one of the lead activists who pushed for the non-discrimination ordinance is a registered and convicted sex offender.
"Despite telling people for months that she is following the lead of cities and towns who have passed similar bathroom ordinances without any problems, Jennifer Roberts finally comes clean and admits she has been following the lead of far-left national organizations all along," said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party. "North Carolinians expect its leaders at all levels of government to listen to the people they represent, not mislead them into following the agenda of Washington, D.C. special interests groups."
Listen: Jennifer Roberts on Charlotte Talks
Transcript:
CHARLOTTE TALKS: You're a Democrat. 8 Democrats in the house yesterday voted for this bill. All of the Democrats in the Senate walked out. How do you explain the difference?
JENNIFER ROBERTS: I wasn't part of those conversations, so I'm not sure what their reasoning was. I know that the side opposed to this did a good job of making it all about one issue, which was not the issue, and did a better job of telling a story about things that have not been happening in the more than 200 cities and counties who have had this ordinance - including Orlando, where Disneyworld is, including Atlanta, including Charleston, Columbia, you know, our South Carolina neighbors have had this for years, cities we compete with - but the other side -
CT: But do those cities have the transgender bathroom ordinance, part of their - ?
JR: They have very similar ordinances.
CT: Do they have the transgender portion in that - in their ordinances?
JR: I can't tell exactly how theirs are all worded, I know that from -
CT: Why don't you know the answer to that question? You told WFAE's Duncan McFadden that you wanted this ordinance because Charlotte needs to stay competitive, you said that to me this morning, and that you were following the lead of over 200 cities that have ordinances in place for years. Why don't you know the answer to that question?
JR: They are like that. They do have that.
CT: Unequivocally you can say that?
JR: I just checked with my source. And I tell you I have not had time to read each of those individual ones. We have gotten information from some national organizations that have been, um, talking about equality and inclusion, and I'm basing it on what we know from them, and that this discussion has happened in other states and other cities, and there have not been the incidences that were worried about.
Contact: North Carolina Republican Party
communications@ncgop.org
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Bobby Tony said:
( April 9th, 2016 @ 11:40 am )
Apparently the Boss Springsteen to Greensboro, NC just showed his a$$, so I guess your suggestion is not far behind. Are we heading back to the three bathrooms of a past era? One of my old bars only had dogs on the bathroom door.
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Bobby Tony, They could always just simply show their genitalia to enter. Eventually, it will always just come down to that.
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Just as Atlanta and GA are at ends of the political and sexual scale, so are Charlotte and much of the rest of NC.
We who grew up on the farm know there are certain male animals as well as female who love to play in the pasture with their same sex buddies. We can whisper about them in the small corners under a tree and ignore them, but "God hep" the one who mentions it in public . . . 
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I guess the NC bathroom debate will continue for a while, so I have a possible solution just to add fuel to the fire.
I propose that they amend the Voter ID laws in NC and require a Bathroom ID for use of the bathroom. A certified copy of the birth certificate or state issued ID along with the ink footprint and gender at time of birth would be required before anyone could enter a public bathroom. This of course would not apply to bars because "Uaren@ting While Impaired (UWI)" is not against the law yet.----delete if inappropriate |
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I met Jennifer Roberts years ago when she was a new Mecklenburg County commissioner. I'd been a county commissioner for a while, so I figured I could my own with any county commissioner from any county - even from the Great State of Mecklenburg.
Jennifer was forced to talk to me because we were the only two folks riding on a bus together in the downtown of one of North Carolina's biggest cities - it could have even been Charlotte (I can't perfectly remember). I can do small talk - pretty well if I want to - but I generally prefer not to when I talk to other politicians. I think she would have rather that I stuck to the 'small talk'. She impressed me as just a young, and a bit bewildered politician. Maybe that has not changed so much. |
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