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Deborah Ross Statement On HB2

Statement

Date: March 24, 2016
Location: Raleigh, NC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Deborah Ross, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, today released the following statement on House Bill 2, passed yesterday by the General Assembly and signed into law.

"In an unnecessary, one-day special session, the General Assembly and Governor gutted the individual civil rights of North Carolinians and rolled back decades of social progress in our state. HB2 will hurt our citizens and makes our great state less welcoming to new residents and businesses, who can help bring economic growth. North Carolinians need leaders that will stand up for them, in Raleigh and in Washington, rather than ones that pass last-minute legislation to supersede local decision making authority and roll back basic protections in our law. Discrimination in any form is wrong. North Carolina is better than this."


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