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Butterfield Statement on 2017 NBA All-Star Game

Statement

Date: July 21, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Arts, Entertainment, and History

Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today released the following statement regarding the NBA's decision to move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, NC:

"I understand the NBA's decision to relocate the 2017 All-Star Game in light of the passage of H.B. 2. For months, North Carolinians, corporate leaders, and communities across America have expressed in the strongest possible terms their dissatisfaction with H.B. 2. The NBA's decision demonstrates the serious price our great state has paid over this discriminatory law. I call on Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to immediately repeal H.B. 2 before more economic damage and embarrassment occurs."


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