Bruce says Michigan could be next

Bruce Sprinsteen warned concertgoers in Michigan that their state could go the route of North Carolina.

Noting that he’d caught word of a bill similar to the controversial North Carolina law regulating transgender restroom use, the rocker asked the Detroit audience to be alert, “because we love playing in Michigan.”

Springsteen was presumably referencing recent remarks by Michigan Sen. Tom Casperson, who wants legislation that would bar the state’s K-12 students from using bathrooms that don’t match their biological sex. Springsteen had nixed his scheduled Sunday show in Greensboro, N.C., to “show solidarity” with people protesting that state’s new law regulating restroom use.

Springsteen’s admonition came toward the end of a reliably lengthy, lively musical affair, a 3½-hour show devoted largely to a full performance of his 1980 album, “The River.” It was an eventful Springsteen visit that featured a Bob Seger encore cameo and an audience of about 16,000 that included Detroit music figures such as Martha Reeves and the Romantics’ Wally Palmer.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.