House speaker: ‘The biggest regret I have on House Bill 2 is messaging’
Last spring, just after North Carolina passed House Bill 2 into law, House Speaker Tim Moore took a family vacation to Prague. When his youngest son told Moore he was on TV, he turned to watch himself starring in the B-roll of an HB2 story.
“I’ve got to tell you,” the Cleveland County Republican said, “when you’re in Prague on spring break and you’re seeing yourself on CNN International, that’s a weird feeling.”
In a recent, wide-ranging interview, Moore reflected back on key subplots of one of North Carolin’s biggest political controversies in years.
“The biggest regret I have on House Bill 2 is messaging,” he said. “We, for a solid year and a half, really avoided a lot of controversial social issues. We focused on jobs, taxes, economic development, improving education — the things that we wanted to deal with.”
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