That will teach those Deltas!
Posted on 02/26/2018 5:14:58 PM PST by Baladas
Georgia's lieutenant governor on Monday attacked Delta Air Lines for dropping a partnership with the National Rifle Association.
Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, ended a discount program for NRA members on Saturday after public backlash following the shooting earlier this month at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
"Delta is reaching out to the National Rifle Association to let it know we will be ending its contract for discounted rates through our group travel program," Delta said in a statement. "We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from its website."
In response, Casey Cagle, who is running for governor as a Republican this year, tweeted on Monday that he would block any legislation that includes tax benefits for Delta until the airline renewed the partnership.
"I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA," Cagle said. "Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back."
The Georgia legislature is considering a broader tax bill that includes a provision to exempt Delta's purchases of jet fuel from the state's sales tax, a move that could save the airline about $40 million. The exemption was first offered in 2005, when the airline was struggling, and repealed in 2015.
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Delta is not an improvement over NorthWest, much less Republic.
I love how “reaching out” has become this touchy-freely contact-you metaphor—even when it’s to tell someone how much you don’t like them.
“I reached out to my brother-in-law to tell him he was persona-non-grata until he repaid the debt.”
Lt. Gov. Now they’re REALLY in trouble.
You can always count on Business Insider to peddle piles of steaming BS.
For example: “Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, ended a discount program for NRA members on Saturday after public backlash...”
There was no “public backlash.” It was a bot program that flooded Delta with fake emails, and the 50 IQ managers at Delta fell for it. Rush has been talking about these fake bots last week.
What it tells me is that if the Delta management is stupid enough to fall for this crap, why would I trust these troglodytes to fly airplanes?
Delta is up for 50 million in tax breaks there. We’ll see how serious they really are. Is this bad business decision worth losing 50 million?
Knowing the airlines, if Delta loses the $50MM, they’ll just beg the Federal government to “loan” it to them and forget to pay it back.
That will teach those Deltas!
The PR folks at Delta must be going nuts. They doubled their ticket prices from Atlanta to the west coast in time for the Rose Bowl and Georgia’s first game there since 1943. Then yesterday they denied the gold medal US curling team upgrades on their flight back stateside. Whoever is making these decisions needs to stay behind a desk and never pilot an airplane.
I understand that GA is now the movie-making capital of the U.S. They give generous tax breaks and subsidies to Hollywood. And we all know that Hollywood peddles anti-gun crap all the time.
So if this Lt. Gov is serious, he needs to get rid of all tax breaks for businesses.
If a person believes in their rights and understands the fact Delta is unfairly targeting the NRA, they won’t use their service.
The NRA needs to reevaluate who is writing their contracts. Why would they have a contract so loose that either party can end their involvement without some kind of major overt action by the other party. Just existing hardly triggers any kind of morals clause.
If there was indeed, a contract the NRA should sue to make Delta (and all the other libtard boycott pussies) reinstate their member’s discounts. And make Delta pay their legal fees too.
Lt. Governor, isn’t that the guy that gets the Governors parking validated? Not a lot of power in that position, Lt. Governor is like the Appendix of state government, you really don’t notice it until it becomes and irritation and then you find you can do just fine without it.
The democrats will find a judge to say “you can’t do that”.
Won’t fly Delta again. Not one NRA member harmed anyone. Delta can go to hell. You boys lost that first class fee.
The lieutenant governor is the President of the Senate and wields considerable power. As the only "full-timer" in the state senate, he sets the agenda and greases the skids for the governor's agenda before the senators arrive for their brief session -- over which the lieutenant governor presides. It is not a glamorous position, but it is a powerful one.
And when he becomes Governor we will watch what happens then.Delta as well as numerous corporations are run by the biggest politically correct manbun wearing pansies as I have ever seen.Fed Ex told them to FO.Watch the backlash against these companies for cutting ties with the NRA.
Good, than he can actually follow through on his.........promise.
Exactly. I have low expectations for Lt. Gov. Cagle in any fight, because he's been nothing more that Governor Deal's water boy in the Georgia Senate. But even Cagle could sense Georgians' disgust with Delta Air Lines, so he chose this issue to "make up" with Georgia conservatives for years of machine politics and betrayal in the senate. But as always, time will tell...
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