NC Governor Held A Fake Q&A With Planted Staff Members So No One Would Ask Hard Questions About HB2

It’s been a bumpy year for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who signed the transphobic, anti-gay, questionably legal HB2 into law and has been clumsily trying to defend it ever since. Last week, in the midst of a sweaty reelection campaign , his staff held a Q&A that supposedly featured questions from the Charlotte Observer. In fact, they were softball questions from his staff; delightfully, an actual reporter from the Observer was present to ask what the hell.

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