his campaign contributions have dried up in the last couple of weeks? He's probably got more $50 donations than before, but those max $5,100 checks are likely becoming rare.

Neither reality nor most of the voters were favorably impressed ( http://www.wral.com/wral-news-poll-hb2-could-have-impact-on-fall-campaigns/15637258/ ), yet Pat has only pretended to retreat.
He and everyone in the NCGA who voted for the demagogic legislation owes transgender Americans both an unequivocal apology for the smear and a drive to eliminate bigotry toward transgender people everywhere.
They owe North Carolina workers, transgender citizens and the state's cities outright repeal of the legislation.
Not namby-pamby video featuring a governor who lacks the courage to face the press live and in person, all questions accepted.

McCrory's entire political career, from his run for student body president at Catawba College to his currently alleged "commonsense" about bathrooms, is characterized by demagoguery. He ran for student body president against "hippies, dorm visitation and the literary magazine" at Catawba College. As governor he immediately reverted to right-wing slurs, notably by falsely characterizing Moral Monday demonstrators as "outsiders."

IMHO, Smearing transgender Americans as bathroom predators was just Pat being Pat.

Certainly Pat and his co-conspirators expected their sexualized hyperventilation to result in greater political power, just as similar smears directed at freedmen helped drive the right wing to power in the 1890s.
I suspect that they all still expect that outcome, albeit with a little tuning of the "message."

on my Facebook feed, a story about a Tennessee GOP lawmaker and co-sponsor of another transgender-bashing bathroom bill, charged by the state's AG for sexual harassment of women:

"Based upon the information gathered thus far, Representative Durham's alleged behavior may pose a continuing risk to unsuspecting women who are employed by or interact with the legislature," Attorney General Herbert Slatery said in a letter to House officials.

Slatery's memo, dated Wednesday, states that the investigation has included interviews with 34 people. Information gleaned from those interviews revealed Durham:

"Occupied a superior position of power to the women."
"Obtained personal contact information from the women under the guise of legislative business or another legitimate reason."
"Initiated contact about non-legislative matters and attempted to meet the women alone."
"Usually involved alcohol in his interaction with women."
"Made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature or engaged in inappropriate physical contact with some women."

:o Dude's been banished to an office in a different building, just to keep his hands off females in the main Legislative offices, and he's co-authoring laws to supposedly "protect" women from imaginary danger? Sheesh.