Posted on 04/02/2021 6:51:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms threw her support behind Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia Friday, following the state’s new voting law.
"Just as elections have consequences, so do the actions of those who are elected," the Democratic mayor wrote on Twitter. "Unfortunately, the removal of the [MLB] All Star game from GA is likely the 1st of many dominoes to fall, until the unnecessary barriers put in place to restrict access to the ballot box are removed."
The MLB’s move is just the latest in widespread backlash the new restrictive voting laws have received from major corporations like Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines and Uber.
But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has flatly rejected criticisms from the White House and corporations, saying The Election Integrity Act makes it "easy to vote and hard to cheat."
The new laws enacted last week placed time limits on early voting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., though counties have the option to extend their hours between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Stricter I.D. requirements, absentee ballot guidelines and reduced ballot drop boxes have frustrated Democrats who believe legislators have made it harder, not easier to vote following the November general election.
Kemp accused the MLB of caving into "fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies," in a series of angry Friday afternoon tweets.
"This attack on our state is the direct result of repeated lies from Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams about a bill that expands access to the ballot box and ensures the integrity of our elections," he continued.
Adding: "I will not back down. Georgians will not be bullied. We will continue to stand up for secure, accessible, fair elections."
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Never trust anyone with three names.
Fake elections have consequences.
“Just as elections have consequences, so do the actions of those who are elected,”
Nice to see Bottoms throw her local small businesses under the bus.
Braves is racist. Just ask the Redskins.
Within the various multi trillion dollar bills the Democrats are passing into law, democrat cities will have so much money they won’t care whether they have something like baseball All-Star game to bring money to their city. Their leaders obviously do not care about their citizens, only about power. We live in a very frightening time
What a total idiot. Does she not realize how much money the city stands to lose? Think of the vendors, restaurants, bars, and area hotels/motels the city just pissed away appeasing these scumbags. What about the fans who would have probably went to see the MLK memorial?
Ironically it will be her own city that suffers most from moving the All-Star game. The rest of the state couldn’t care less.
I hope whole city of atlanta goes belly up bankrupt and is struck by an earthquake.....
Georgia just lost Billons of Dollars in Revenue, The Atalanta Braves are furious, and this baggy ass approves?
He needs a kick.
Even Stacy Abrahms is pished at the move.
She smokes her own city. You can’t make this stuff up. She could have just kept her weasel mouth shut.
Apparently, the MLB doesn’t want Repubs or real Americans to watch their boring game.
Consequences for Atlanta is that they lose the business the game would bring. Thank your idiot mayor.
They just had a horrible season and lost a lot of money, so they want to make more fans angry.
Great idea.
In the good old days when even dumbass mayors promoted commerce in their city.
Yeah, but if all the states pass similar laws, what are they gonna do? Stamp their feet and pout? Even if just all the R states do it, all it will do is cleanse the wokesters out to the commute states. I don’t see a downside here.
They must defeat GA’s election law at all costs’ they have to stop it before it spreads to other states. No Matter What It Takes
Clearly the “Progressives” do not want anyone to read the Law. If they did the Big Lie would be exposed. They would be Toast
Solzhenitsyn says, the price you pay by not resisting the culture of the lie is nothing less than your soul.
Marxism infests everything it touches.
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