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SqarrBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:21pm
How about North Carolina and all the other states pulling this bullshit?
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  Beet ArthurSqarr
  3/24/16 6:26pm
  There is not many productions based in N. Carolina, but Atlanta has become almost the third or fourth busiest production hub in the US. It would be major if people started pulling out of there.
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  randilynisFINDILYNSqarr
  3/24/16 6:27pm
  Didn’t this just happen in, quietly in NC yesterday?
  
  Maybe because it was a rush job it slipped the attention of Hollywood?
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JillJitsuBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:25pm
This state is horrible. If the governor actually vetoes this bill, I will be shocked.
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  JigglyballJillJitsu
  3/24/16 6:37pm
  The governor has already floated it at the Capitol that he plans to veto the bill, and may also, in a surprise move, veto campus carry as well because he doesn’t like the bill at all. He also recently ordered an executive mandate lifting a federal ban on drug felons receiving SNAP and TANF, so that former inmates can try to get back on their feet and reunite with family when they get out, which all states have the option to do, but very few states have done. He also put $20 million new dollars in child welfare last year. For a Republican governor he can be reasonable, and Georgia hasn’t passed nearly as many crazy bills as our neighboring states. But sure, this state is horrible.
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  JillJitsuJigglyball
  3/24/16 6:40pm
  I’m glad that there are aspects of his leadership that are less crappy than this bill. I’m just saying, this place sucks, and there’s way too much “sincerely held religious beliefs” crap.
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OfmanynamesBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:33pm
The Advocate reports House Bill 757 would “allow adoption and foster care agencies, homeless shelters, drug clinics, food pantries, and for-profit businesses to refuse service to LGBT people.”

Okay why don’t they just admit they want LGBT people to fucking die at this point?
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  AntisocialJusticeWarrior is not Anti-SJWOfmanynames
  3/24/16 6:37pm
  RIGHT?!?! I’m fuming. >:(
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  BrightEyesOfmanynames
  3/24/16 6:44pm
  Why do that when they can just continue to hide behind the robe of Jesus “religious freedom” Christ and pretend they aren’t really monsters.
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infohackBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:58pm
This might actually make them happy, though. When Snyder was elected in Michigan one of the first things he did was slash the budget for film incentives, when it had been a pretty successful program, helping films like Gran Torino get made here. Last year he signed a bill to kill it entirely.

It’s a case where the morons that currently run our State legislature and head idiot Snyder hate Hollywood liberals more than they like tax cuts, and the increased revenue the incentives resulted in, which speaks volumes about their priorities.
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  dcgirl13infohack
  3/24/16 10:42pm
  That might be the only smart thing Synder has done. Those tax breaks end up being at best revenue neutral and there is continual pressure for more tax breaks or the film business will go some place else. It’s very portable. In almost any reputable economic study it doesn’t result in net increased revenue.
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  infohackdcgirl13
  3/24/16 11:08pm
  It’s not about the tax revenue. It’s about creating jobs and spending on the local economy.
  
  A 2011 study by Ernst & Young reported that each dollar spent directly on filmmaking in Michigan generated $2.60 in spending throughout the state. Film productions employed 5,600 Michigan residents in 2010, the report said.
  Bloomberg: Michigan Film-Tax Credits Show Divide Over Aid to Hollywood
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ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:32pm
My understanding is that the governor was planning to veto the bill well before the threats of boycotts by movie studios, and that he’s basically doing a soft veto by just doing nothing while the time period to sign it runs out, which I believe is today.
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  emacdaddyʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
  3/24/16 6:46pm
  The NFL passive-aggressively threatened to pull the Superb Owl from the new Falcons stadium and that threat has actually worked 2x in Arizona.
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  Sneakysemacdaddy
  3/24/16 7:59pm
  “The NFL passive-aggressively threatened to pull the Superb Owl from the new Falcons stadium”
  
  I know you meant Super Bowl, but I am really taken with the idea of the NFL owning a truly superb owl that they use to pressure people into doing what they want. Ex Veto the bill and Arizona gets to hang out with the owl for a day.
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RicwashBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:40pm
Two things:

Hollywood is well aware that money talks. They know that if they pull $1.7 BILLION USD out of that economy, everyone will feel it right away. The rest of that bass ackwards state can’t make up the money Atlanta is basically pulling in by itself, so they realize that the Governor might want to seriously re-think that bill.

Hollywood is at least 1/2 LGBT (openly. Closeted is another story altogether.). Studio heads, producers, writers, actors, makeup, wardrobe, SFX, stuntmen, you name it. Why would they want to drag several hundred people somewhere where 1/2 of them are openly discriminated against? And these people are spending LONG money, as they often have to live there for 2-3 months at a stretch for a film shoot, longer for a series. Georgia might want to think about this before they do it.
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  oldscrumbyRicwash
  3/24/16 10:15pm
  The only thing anyone needs to know is that the over-represented regressives of rural bumfuck will gladly burn this state down in pursuit of Gilead. Deal is an establishment GOP, corporate shill through and through, but he won’t spurn his masters or Moloch to please the Bible-thumpers.
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JigglyballBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:39pm
I work in the policy arena in Georgia. Deal has already indicated that he’s going to veto the bill. He also appears to be setting up a path to veto campus carry. Today is Sine Die, and his signing period begins tomorrow, so we should see action soon.
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  euterpe35Jigglyball
  3/24/16 8:42pm
  Good to know! Would it be wrong to ask that he also say something while wielding his veto pen? How about something along the lines of “Not only no, but HELL no. Go brush up on your actual Christianity.”
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  Jigglyballeuterpe35
  3/24/16 8:50pm
  If only. I suspect he'll say something about revenue and supporting Georgia business.
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lisaroweBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:37pm
if this bill passes, twd will have to be in different state.
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Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Bobby Finger
3/24/16 6:38pm
Attention Georgia Theocrat-Idiots:

Bigoted Discrimination ~~//=//~~ Liberty

No matter WHAT bullshit words you tack on to it (ie: Religious, Bible, Jerkhole etc.).
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AP BearBobby Finger
3/24/16 6:44pm
What about Bravo and Tyler Perry/OWN? Is Bavo part of Viacom? too lazy to googles
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  shelwoodAP Bear
  3/24/16 7:31pm
  Bravo is part of NBC Universal. OWN I think is co-owned by Discovery and Oprah.
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  AP Bearshelwood
  3/24/16 9:05pm
  Awesome news
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