StoryGraph Biggest Story 2021-04-03 -- major league baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all americans (14), all-star game (14), brian kemp (13), gov brian (11), stacey abrams (10)
Why the MLB pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta, briefly explained
Corporate America is starting to push back on Republican voter suppression efforts
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Pressure Mounts On Corporations To Denounce GOP Voter Suppression Bills
Businesses accustomed to cozy political relationships now find themselves in the middle of a growing partisan fight over voting rights.
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Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game from Georgia in response to a new restrictive voting law is likely to cost the state tens of millions of dollars.
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Kemp: Voting law 'worth the boycotts as well as the lawsuits'
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) fiercely defended his state's new voting law after the MLB said it was pulling its All-Star Game out of Atlanta, saying the new restrictions were “worth” boycotts and lawsuits against the Peach State.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff Devastates Georgia Republicans After MLB All-Star Game Bails On Jim Crow
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) made a devastatingly accurate argument that Georgia Republicans are causing the state to hemorrhage money and jobs with their new Jim Crow.
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Obama congratulates MLB for 'taking a stand' against Georgia election law as Trump calls for boycott
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have weighed in on Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia's new sweeping election law that imposes significant new obstacles to voting.
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Obama praises MLB for pulling All-Star Game from Georgia
Former President Obama praised MLB after it pulled its All-Star Game from Georgia in protest of the state’s new voting restrictions.
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Heritage Action Executive Director: MLB Has 'Weaponized' Baseball
Heritage Action executive director Jessica Anderson, who has continually highlighted the left's lies on Georgia's election integrity law.
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MLB team speaks out on voting rights after league changes All-Star Game location
One Major League Baseball organization is speaking out about the potential election reforms that could be happening in its own state.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday said the decision to pull the Major League Baseball All-Star Game over objections to changes to his state's voting laws was a "political play."
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Obama built this. Barack Obama cheered the MLB’s decision to move its All-Star game out of Georgia based on lies about the state’s new voter integrity laws. Joe Biden told ESPN on Wednesday he “would strongly support” MLB moving the game, calling the Georgia law “Jim Crow on steroids”. The woke mob won based on…
Analysis | Expand access? A historic restriction? What the Georgia voting law really does.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) says his state's new voting law expands ballot access — and in very limited ways, it does. In other ways, it restricts access, just as its critics claim.
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MLB moving All-Star Game from Georgia in response to new voting laws
Major League Baseball announced Friday that this season's All-Star Game and draft will not be held in Atlanta in response to Georgia's recently passed laws that placed new restrictions on voting.
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GA Gov. Kemp: 'We Are Not Backing Down'
Friday, during an appearance on FNC's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," after questioning the double standard applied to Georgia versus New York State, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) pledged his state would not succumb to corporate pressure protesting efforts to shore up voting integrity by the Georgia State Assembly. | Clips
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Amazon Describes Georgia Voter Law as Effort to 'Disenfranchise Black People'
Amazon has joined the chorus of corporate leaders attacking Georgia's election law by calling on states to "follow Virginia's leadership," instead. According to Amazon spokesperson and former Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, "efforts to disenfranchise black people and other minorities continue to this day."
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MLB moves All-Star Game from Georgia over new voting law
"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote.
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