Batter up!
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) are taking another swing at Major League Baseball for its decision to move its All-Star game out of Georgia in response to the state’s restrictive voting law.
The “wil of the voters”?? Which ones, Senator, only those bankrolling your campaigns?
“Monopolies and liberty are not compatible,” Hawley told Fox News
…in a rare moment of candor.
Hey, GQP.
There’s no crying in baseball…
Oh, please…
Bring it. It is actually a travesty that the MLB enjoys so many benefits while demanding so much from the cities it plays in.
I’d like to see that re-organization. It’ll get voted down for sure, but I’d like to see it anyway.
And while we’re at it, the hypocrisy of the Three Stooges’ angle is laughable.
AKA The United Citizens. Or is it the other way around?
“My principal complaint is, they didn’t read the darn bill,” McConnell said”
Maybe they did, and you didn’t. Or, you read it Mitch and you liked the voter suppression part.
Either way, your remain a lying hypocrite.
The Three Stooges.
“No corporation should be so big or so powerful that it can control the political process, that it can override the will of the voters.”
Georgia citizens voted on the initial awarding of the All-Star game to Atlanta? I didn’t realize pulling the game from Georgia thwarted the will of voters.
I hate it that I am constantly reminded of the last third of Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech and how little we have changed since it was delivered.
Cruz and Hawley, there is no low to low for them to jump on and try to milk for publicity. Losers.
Others here have already pointed this out, but I’ll go ahead and be redundant.
This–
“Monopolies and liberty are not compatible,” Hawley told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight the night before the introduction of the legislation. “No corporation should be so big or so powerful that it can control the political process, that it can override the will of the voters.”
–is just dumb. Baseball isn’t controlling the process but responding to it. I also strongly suspect that few voters were consulted during the drafting of the Georgia voter-suppression laws, or that they’re enjoying universal approval from voters there.
Challenge Cruz, Lee and Hawley to defend their previous actions and words (go to the tapes and tweets) to the public. Let’s use the court of public opinion and documented facts to refute these three and show what con artists they truly are in the open. Game on.
They are doing it for the wrong reason, but yeah go ahead. Take away their immunity from anti-trust, but not only for MLB but to all of them, especially from NCAA football.
The MLB antitrust exemption is ridiculous. It was based on the Supreme Court’s conclusion (in 1922) that baseball was not interstate commerce because games were local events and the movement of players and equipment across state lines was incidental. It has survived all these years because the court won’t reverse itself and Congress has let it stand even though all other professional sports are subject to the antitrust laws.
That being said, this is nothing but grandstanding. I guess Dr. Seuss is yesterday’s pretext.
No corporation should be so big or so powerful that it can control the political process, that it can override the will of the voters.
Does Hawley know he’s sounding like FDR?
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
From Roosevelt’s second inaugural speech.
Batter up!
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) are taking their ball and going home. Sorta like Cartmann on South Park.
Man, when it comes to being on the wrong side of history, these GOP reactionaries are all-in !
“Get profit-making corporations outta politics except for when they send me huge donations.”
Signed, Every Elected Official Anywhere.
“No corporation should be so big or so powerful that it can control the political process, that it can override the will of the voters.”
When did the public vote to put the All Star game in Atlanta?