CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Emails sent to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's office complained that he didn't call for a special session after the Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance targeting transgender rights, and they suggested that he would lose votes in his re-election bid if he didn't react, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
The Charlotte Observer (http://bit.ly/2dlzSzl) reported that on April 5, the newspaper requested copies of emails sent or received by McCrory and his staff since Feb. 1 regarding the Charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance and House Bill 2.
Tami Fitzgerald of the N.C. Values Coalition sent a group email urging recipients to rally behind McCrory and his re-election campaign.
In another email exchange, Kevin Walker, a partner at a Charlotte accounting firm, told McCrory's general counsel, Bob Stephens, that he knew it wasn't his bill, but "I have to express my extreme disappointment that the state legislature felt it necessary to pass this reactionary bill, and that the Governor chose not to veto it."
