Posted on 09/18/2020 4:20:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ride-sharing company Lyft’s new turn-out-the vote effort in cities in five battleground states has sparked outrage from conservatives who think it is a ploy to help Democrats win in November.
Lyft has formed a partnership with More Than A Vote, an advocacy group led by Black athletes including basketball player LeBron James, to provide free and discounted rides to polling locations in major cities in five key battlegrounds: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Tea Party Patriots’ Jenny Beth Martin said Thursday that her legal team is reviewing its options to challenge Lyft’s actions as a potentially “illegal corporate contribution.”
Lyft, a publicly traded company, says its goal is to assist voters who need transportation, but conservatives view the program as a get-out-the-vote push for Democrats in crucial states that could carry Joseph R. Biden into the White House and hand control of the Senate over to liberals.
“They are choosing sides. If they were NOT choosing sides, they would be offering discounts on ANY ride to the polls on Election Day ANYWHERE in the country,” Ms. Martin said in a statement. “By announcing that they want to offer discounts in a) urban areas (where Democrats dominate) and b) battleground states (where the contest will be closest), they are making clear that they have decided to help the Biden-Harris ticket.”
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Don’t bitch about it, up your ground game! Hire some drivers and rent out school buses and do the same for seniors and disabled! Can’t conservatives just take action rather than griping and threatening legal action? We’re conservatives, remember?
What happened to busing voters in? Cars seem inefficient.
They aren’t just bitching, they’re doing something.
Smells like an illegal corporate campaign contribution.
In kind donation at Lyft
Why not just send them out to harvest ballots?
You know they want to.
And if you live in those areas, call up Lyft and have them drive YOU to the polls. Tie up the drivers. It is not like the drivers can look you up to see if you are a Dem or not.
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