Rahm hoping to use N.C. anti-gay law to poach state’s businesses

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel traces his ability to lure a Whole Foods warehouse from Indiana to Chicago — with help from a $7.4 million city subsidy — to Indiana’s passage of a “religious freedom” bill that raised concerns about discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Now, the mayor is hoping to do that same kind of corporate and convention poaching in North Carolina after Gov. Pat McCrory signed a law eliminating anti-discrimination protections for lesbians, gays and bisexuals.

Rahm attempts to fight the tide. No word yet on when Rahm plans to ban travel for city of Chicago workers with human rights meccas Saudi Arabia China: who are both known world-wide to treat gay people and women with more respect than North Carolina.