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<\/a><\/p>\nPat McCrory released a video<\/a> message in his final hours as governor of North Carolina (Roy Cooper was sworn in shortly after midnight on NYE) blaming everyone else for HB2, the anti-LGBT bill passed by Republicans in a rushed special session in March.<\/p>\n The News & Observer<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n He said HB2 likely played a major role in his election defeat, and he blamed the Charlotte City Council – which passed a nondiscrimination ordinance that prompted HB2 – as well as the LGBT advocacy groups that backed economic boycotts of the state. He called it a “manufactured crisis.”<\/p>\n “I wish I would have been successful in convincing Charlotte not to start this masquerade of an issue, that no doubt had an impact on my future election and on North Carolina in a very unfair way,” he says in the video<\/a>, adding that he was “unsuccessful in convincing the legislature maybe not to overreact.”<\/p>\n Watch the portion of his message devoted to HB2:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Pat McCrory Takes a Few Last Desperate Shots at HB2 Opponents as Door Slams on His Governorship<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n