Nearly a month after the election, Gov. Pat McCrory has conceded his race for a second term to Roy Cooper, the next governor of North Carolina.
McCrory, you will remember, is the man who refused to repeal HB2, the anti-LGBT law that has threatened LGBT North Carolinians’ safety and cost North Carolina millions of dollars and many jobs. It’s come back to bite him.
With the concession, McCrory becomes the state’s first governor to lose a re-election bid since a constitutional amendment in the 1970s gave governors the ability to seek more than one four-year term. His defeat followed the nation’s second-costliest gubernatorial race and North Carolina’s most expensive ever. […]
McCrory’s concession came nearly a month after Election Day, following dozens of election complaints filed by Republicans with help from the governor’s campaign. The majority of them were dismissed by GOP-controlled county election boards.
McCrory referred to those concerns in his concession video, calling them “continued questions that should be answered regarding the voting process.” The governor called Saturday for a State Bureau of Investigation probe into absentee ballots in Bladen County, shortly after the State Board of Elections dismissed a protest calling for those ballots to be thrown out.
About damn time. Discrimination doesn’t pay; time for you to go.
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