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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 09:49 AM Apr 2016

Pat McCrory Says Human Rights Campaign is 'more powerful than the NRA'. Politifact: FALSE

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The HRC is the country’s largest gay rights group. It has led the charge for gay marriage and for the types of LGBT discrimination protections that HB2 prohibited cities in North Carolina from making.

But has the group really eclipsed the NRA, an oft-cited stereotype of a powerful lobbying group that can shape public policy and opinion?

McCrory says it has. And in the last few days, that claim has been picked up as a talking point by supporters of HB2.

. . .

That’s not to say the HRC isn’t powerful. It’s a multimillion-dollar organization and the country’s largest gay rights group. But it doesn’t have the resources, adherents or success rate that the NRA does. In every way we tried to define influence, the HRC doesn’t even come close to the NRA’s level of power.


THE WHOLE THING: http://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2016/apr/21/pat-mccrory/nc-gov-pat-mccrory-under-fire-hb2-says-human-right/
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Pat McCrory Says Human Rights Campaign is 'more powerful than the NRA'. Politifact: FALSE (Original Post) Triana Apr 2016 OP
So....? AlbertCat Apr 2016 #1
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
1. So....?
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 03:12 PM
Apr 2016

I mean if you're lobbying for good things that don't kill people....

But of course it's just the stupid "I know you are but what am I" type of juvenile politics the NC legislature is wallowing in these days. They are so embarrassingly pitiful.

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