The Atlanta Braves are back to try and win a World Series and the same executives from Major League Baseball will be there to hand out the hardware. This is a home run for Georgian's and a swinging strikeout for the woke elites.
Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, told Breitbart News on Friday that a court order for Major League Baseball (MLB) to return its All-Star Game to Atlanta “would be a win-win for everyone.” The MLB rescheduled its All-Star Game — moving it from Atlanta to Denver — following Georgia’s enactment of election laws in March. Dubbed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” the bill implements voter ID requirements across all methods of voting. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged the political motivation of his decision, saying it was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.” He added, “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
There’s a new cartel in town stirring up trouble and threatening lawmakers and ordinary citizens alike. This cartel’s not from Sinaloa; it’s on our side of the border. This cartel doesn’t have control of Tamaulipas; it’s trying to control states like Georgia, Texas and others. This cartel is made up of left-wing activists, and instead of threatening businesses and citizens with violence, it’s threatening them with boycotts and economic losses if they dare to support election integrity reform measures. And this new woke cartel is growing, too—most recently, it’s recruiting powerful CEOs to carry out hits against the Texas economy.
From the Department of The-Heck-You-Say, it appears that the woke corporate leaders who attacked the Georgia voting-integrity law, some even labeling the state racist for wanting clean and honest elections, had no idea what they were talking about. I know, right? Virtue shouting is uninformed, wrong, offensive and deeply divisive. Who’d’a thunk?
Hans von Spakovsky joined Washington Watch to discuss Georgia’s new voting law and compared it to the voting laws of other states. Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform — as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The top executives of some of the largest corporations on the planet released a statement on Wednesday saying they support “democracy.” If that sounds bland and terribly nonspecific, you get the gist of the statement, which was the product of a summit of more than 100 CEOs and executives. The summit was convened in response to passage of Georgia’s election-integrity law and similar legislation being considered in other states.
It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale business school professor even said in The Wall Street Journal that corporations are leading a “fifth spiritual awakening in America.”
Washington, D.C. – Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan today backed away from claims that Georgia’s new voter-integrity law is racist after being confronted by the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP). Two hours earlier, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey dodged FEP’s question but still retreated toward neutrality on the issue.
Coca-Cola, whose CEO denounced the Georgia voting bill, is now striking a conciliatory tone after coming under pressure from conservatives. The soda giant, which is based in Atlanta, was absent from a list of more than 500 corporations and individuals that signed a statement condemning any election legislation that would “restrict” voters from having “an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot.” The missive was placed as a two-page Wednesday ad in the New York Times and Washington Post, with the effort being organized by the Black Economic Alliance.
Nearly 100 of America’s top corporate leaders and CEOs gathered both in-person and virtually on Saturday to strategize ways to combat new election integrity laws like Georgia’s H.B. 531. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who helped organize the meeting, framed it as a response to threats of reprisals after Georgia-based companies like Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Aflac Insurance condemned the Georgia bill. He called election integrity measures “anti-undemocratic.”
Former Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Fay Vincent slammed MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred in an op-ed this week for his decision to withdraw the league’s All-Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia enacted a new law aimed at tightening the security of elections in the state.
Countless corporations — from Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Porsche to UPS and LinkedIn — are calling out the Georgia voting laws, calling them “restrictive,” “racist,” and “discriminative.” Meanwhile, words like “stakeholder” and “equitable” are starting to show up in their arguments.
For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western civilization. During most of that time, “business”— and American Big Business, in particular — remained the last redoubt for those who believe in free people, free markets, and the criticality of private property.
Horace Cooper, Co-chair of Project 21, weighs in on President Biden’s recommendation to move all-star game out of Georgia.
Athlete activists and activist groups are calling for the Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) to move their events from Georgia, after the GOP-led government passed an election reform bill.
