Democrats find themselves at odds with each other over Major League Baseball's decision to relocate the All-Star Game away from Georgia this year over the state's new election law.
Democrats accused Republicans of having racist intentions when creating the new law establishing voter photo ID requirements for absentee mail-in ballots, restricting political organizations from offering refreshments to voters in line, limiting drop boxes for ballots to polling places, and eliminating the secretary of state from the election board, among other provisions.
RUBIO BLASTS DELTA AS 'WOKE CORPORATE HYPOCRITES' AFTER CEO CONDEMNS GEORGIA VOTING LAW. Back in mid-March, Democrat-allied activist groups, such as Black Voters Matter, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, and the Georgia NAACP, announced they launched a pressure campaign on leading firms in Georgia's business community in an effort to get those companies to denounce the legislation.
"We've got the power of organized people. They've got the power of organized money. And between us and them, we could put pressure on these legislators or, worst case scenario, the governor to kill these bills," Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told CNBC. Although a number of the Georgia-based companies came out with public condemnations, for some activists, that was not enough, and a boycott of Georgia was called for instead. The MLB followed through by announcing it would relocate its planned All-Star Game from Cobb County, Georgia.
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Democrat and former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said the new election law should not push the state's largest companies to boycott the state "Yet" but that the corporations should, instead, publicly condemn the new legislation and invest in expanding voting policy Abrams may personally support before the companies join a boycott movement.
Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, made a similar declaration, saying he opposed Biden's call for the MLB to boycott but blamed the Republican Party for the boycott itself.
Georgia Republicans hit back at Democrats, calling the accusations about the new election law "Partisan politics" and "Myth."
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