Kelsey Harkness
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you spoke out
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out he used the Obama administration of using children as pawns to further
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our political agenda can you explain what you meant there well its base level
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it's extortion calcium and what they did was they looked into North Carolina they
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said unless you do we say agency of the executive branch of the federal
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government lets you do what we say we are going to withhold your money for the
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taxpayers of North Carolina send their money to washington for things like
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education and transportation and housing and they get skimmed off in washington
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and some of it comes back what they're saying now and is unless you change your
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loss to believe like we believe then we're gonna keep your money so they're
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using it as an extortion extraordinary tool to really hold the children of
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North Carolina hostage to push their radical leftist agenda and so it's
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unfortunate that they're doing that's really unprecedented in a lot of ways
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and so when they sent us a letter and told us what we had to do or else what
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we did the governor filed lawsuits against them as well as the legislature
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filed a lawsuit against them
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challenging their stance with title nine and title seven and really challenging
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what they believe the Civil Rights Act of the sixties and seventies really says
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and attorney general Loretta Lynch and the justice department came out this
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week and like end north carolina's bill to Jim Crow and other forms of
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state-sponsored discrimination that is a pretty heavy allegation curious how you
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respond to that
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to use the Jim Crow laws is pretty shameful here's why
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here's why this really works is the color of somebody's skin pigment of
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their skin has absolutely nothing zero to do with what bathroom somebody goes
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into what locker room shower they use what lunch counter they said that has
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nothing to do with that that's why we got rid of this nefarious laws call Jim
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Crow laws because they were amazingly discriminatory however somebody's
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biological 6 has everything to do with which bathroom use that's why we decided
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even at that time you don't take down men and women signs off the bathrooms
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you leave them up because that's what it's for its because there's a
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differentiation between biological sex and and what goes on in those in those
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facilities has absolutely nothing to do with Jim Crow laws she knows that
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they're pushing the envelope here to again push their agenda so that they can
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redefine what the term sex means in the civil rights act so they're saying that
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sex has always meant transgender and everything else you know the sixty some
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odd transgendered definitions there are now they think that that's what sex
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means and the civil rights activist absolutely not true and what would you
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say to the transgender community who does feel offended and discriminated
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against because of that law yet so you're welcome here everybody's welcome
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in North Carolina there's no discrimination going on in North
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Carolina but work with us to we are trying to drive reasonable
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accommodations for those people that are fearful but not put women and children
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at risk that the rhetoric that's going on about how people believing that
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republicans North Carolina somehow fear that transgender people in the LGBT
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community our bathroom molesters nobody's ever said I don't have one
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colleague here i dont no one Republican that has ever said that so that's just
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absolutely not true but you know what we do have twenty-four thousand registered
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sex offenders in North Carolina we do have a lot of people who have some ill
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intent they see a loophole in the law they're gonna take advantage of it why
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would we put one woman or one child at risk of being molested in the bathroom
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taken advantage of in a bathroom or shower locker room we don't want to do
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that that 99% of the people out there who are just trying to go about their
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lives every day and go use public facilities safely and securely we have
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to protect them to governor thank you very much for joining us thank you for
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coming today