RALEIGH, NC— Corporations like American Airlines(AAL), Red Hat (RHT), Wells Fargo (WFC), PayPal (PYPL) and others are shamefully bullying the state of North Carolina and Governor Pat McCrory after HB2 was signed into law, which effectively overturned Charlotte’s harmful business ordinance. Corporations should be focused on turning a profit and caring for their customers. American Airlines, Red Hat, and others have been the recipients of thousands of dollars in taxpayer dollars in the form of incentives. North Carolinians should be aware of this so they have the opportunities to be consumers of companies that are congruent with their values. PayPal expressed disappointment over the Bill but just 4 days ago, announced an agreement with Gov McCrory to receive up to 2.9 million dollars as part of an incentive package that will bring 400 jobs to the state.
The following companies have publicly issued statements or tweets against HB2.
- American Airlines (1, 3, 5)
- Apple (1, 3, 4, 5)
- Bayer (1, 3, 4)
- BB&T Ballpark
- Bank of America (* 3, 4)
- Biogen (3, 4)
- Burt’s Bees (* 4)
- Carolina Hurricanes (3)
- Carolina Panthers
- CIAA (* 5)
- Citrix (3)
- Cisco (* 3)
- CLT Motor Speedway
- Davidson College (* 3)
- Dow Chemicals
- Dow Public Policy (3, 4)
- Duke University (3)
- Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina (3)
- ESPN (* 1, 5)
- Etsy (* 3)
- Facebook (* 4, 5)
- Google (3, 4, 5)
- Charlotte Hornets (* 3)
- IBM (4)
- Iconfactory (* 3)
- IngersollRand (* 3)
- Intel (* 3)
- Lowe’s (3, 5)
- LPL (* 3)
- Marriott Hotels
- McKinney (* 3)
- Microsoft (5)
- Monster (* 4)
- NBA (2, 3, 5)
- NCAA (3, 5)
- NCSHRM (* 3)
- Paypal (1, 4, 5)
- Pfizer Inc (* 3)
- Red Hat (* 1)
- City of San Francisco (* 3)
- Salesforce (* 3, 4)
- SAS (* 3)
- Synchrony Financial (* 3)
- Wake Forest (* 3)
- Wells Fargo (5)
Footnotes:
3) Storify.com
Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition said, “After receiving thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars in corporate incentives off the hardworking backs of North Carolinians, American Airlines now blatantly slaps us across the face. American Airlines would not be doing business in North Carolina if they were not making a profit, yet these big out-of-state corporations are bullying North Carolinians. I would like to be a fly on the wall in American Airlines’ shareholder meetings as they try to justify why they have chosen to side with convicted sex offenders and not the common sense consumers who buy their airline tickets and believe that all women and children should be protected. Consumers should know that buying a ticket on American Airlines is funding convicted sex offenders and their values.”
Furthermore, the economic climate of North Carolina is strong and thriving because of the thousands of successful small business owners that choose to do business in our state.
Spokeswoman of #KeepNCsafe Coalition, Kami Mueller, weighed in, “The vast majority of tax returns in the state of North Carolina are LLC’s and s-corps, only going to prove that our thriving economy is built on the backbones of hardworking small business owners in North Carolina. We don’t need the values of outsiders dictating how we conduct business as a state. I commend the leadership of Governor Pat McCrory and our General Assembly who are wise enough to see that our consistent standing of being in the top five states in the nation in which to do business is due to the thousands and thousands of small business owners in North Carolina who vote their values, and 69% of them thought Charlotte’s harmful bathroom ordinance was ‘unreasonable and unsafe.’”
At the time of this release, over 320 business owners have signed a letter thanking Governor Pat McCrory and the General Assembly for signing HB2 into law overturning Charlotte’s harmful Bathroom Ordinance for the protection of businesses, women, and children in North Carolina. If you have not signed this business letter and would like to do so, KeepNCSafe.org/business-impact/
See other corporations who have received NC taxpayer incentives:
If you have media inquiries, please contact Kami Mueller at [email protected] or by phone at 765-215-1334.
The Charlotte Observer’s list of companies opposed to HB2 includes (As of 4/6/16)
| Against HB2: Among the companies, groups and individuals that have publicly stated their opposition to the new law:LionsgateA+E network Fox PepsiCo Hyatt Ingersoll-Rand The Dow Chemical Company Hewlett Packard Enterprise Smiles by Payet Family Dentistry Northrop Grumman Barnes and Noble Sivan Capri Agency Ralph Lauren American Apparel Qualcomm Twilio Udacity Choice Hotels International Pandora Media EMC Corporation NBA Bank of America Wells Fargo American Airlines Lowe’s Cos. Box Salesforce Levi Strauss & Co. Encore Music Publishers Airbnb Apple Red Hat Citrix Square Lyft Pfizer Inc. Glassdoor Dropbox YouTube Starbucks Citibank TD Bank Hilton Starwood Accenture Kellogg’s Uber Tumblr Gogobot Intel Yahoo Orbitz.com CheapTickets.com Gilt Replacements, Ltd. Zynga Jawbone Braintree Matrix Partners Cisco Systems IBM Biogen Miramax PayPal Marriott International Microsoft Yelp Nextdoor Saturday Brand Communications The Common Market (Charlotte) Smash Communications Singley + Mackie Singley Content Studios Adam Shankman, director and producer Rob Reiner, director Duke University Davidson College State of New York State of Vermont State of Washington State of Minnesota City of Atlanta City of San Francisco City of Boston City of Seattle City of West Palm Beach, Fla. ACPA-College Student Educators International NC League of Municipalities The American Kennel Club Human Rights Campaign Equality NC Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network American Society of Association Executives Computer & Communications Industry Association Consumer Technology Association Software & Information Industry Association Motion Picture Association of America Ric Elias, CEO of Red Ventures Casey Wasserman, President and CEO of the Wasserman Foundation Steven R. Boal, CEO, Quotient Technology Inc. Brandee Barker, Cofounder, The Pramana Collective Michael Birch, Founder, Blab Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, co-CEOs, Atlassian Lorna Borenstein, CEO, Grokker Vice Forlenza, Chairman, CEO and President, BD Paul T. Dacier, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, EMC Corporation Brad Brinegar, Chairman and CEO, McKinney Lloyd Carney, CEO, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Ron Conway, Founder and Co-Managing Partner, SV Angel Dean Debnam, Chairman and CEO, Workplace Options David Ebersman, Cofounder and CEO, Lyra Health Jared Fliesler, General Partner, Matrix Partners Jason Goldberg, CEO, Pepo Mike Gregoire, CEO, CA Technologies Alan King, President and COO, Workplace Options Kristen Koh Goldstein, CEO, BackOps Mitchell Gold, co-founder and chair-man, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator David Hassell, CEO, 15Five Dave Imre, Partner and CEO, IMRE Dev Ittycheria, President & CEO, MongoDB Laurene Powell Jobs, President, Emerson Collective Cecily Joseph, VP Corporate Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer, Symantec Corporation Joshua Kushner, Managing Partner, Thrive Capital Max Levchin, CEO, Affirm Dion Lim, CEO, NextLesson Shan-lyn Ma, CEO, Zola Bill Maris, CEO, Google Ventures Melody McCloskey, CEO, StyleSeat Douglas Merrill, CEO, Zestfinance Dyke Messinger, President and CEO, Power Curbers Inc. Michael Natenshon, CEO, Marine Layer Alexi G. Nazem, Cofounder and CEO, Nomad Health Laurie J. Olson, EVP, Strategy, Portfolio and Commercial Operations, Pfizer Inc. Evan Reece, CEO, Liftopia Stan Reiss, General Partner, Matrix Partners John Replogle, CEO, Seventh Generation Dan Rosensweig, CEO, Chegg Kevin P. Ryan, Founder and Chairman, Alleycorp Bijan Sabet, General Partner, Spark Capital Julie Samuels, President, Engine David A. Shaywitz, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus Behshad Sheldon, President and CEO, Braeburn Pharmaceuticals Mark Trudeau, President and CEO, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals David Spector, Cofounder, ThirdLove Bret Taylor, CEO, Quip Todd Thibodeaux, CEO, CompTIA David Tisch, Managing Partner, BoxGroup Kevin A. Trapani, President and CEO, The Redwood Groups Bob & Harvey Weinstein, Co-Founders and Co-Chairmen, The Weinstein Company Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article69251877.html#storylink=cpy
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