Major League Baseball on Monday hit back at a lawsuit over its decision to move its All-Star game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s restrictive voting law by dismissing it as “political theatrics.”
How does JCN have standing? Did they approach every small business in GA to be a part of their law suit? Also why is MLB’s responsibility to make sure that these small businesses make money on a special event?
MLB is Godzilla, the awesome modern allegory blending dragon mythology with scientific dangers.
JCN is Gigan, a goofy, pointless foe with no hands.
And yes, it pains me to root for the MLB, just as it would pain me to root for Godzilla if he were real.
If these folks want a positive change in their business climate, they need to talk to the Georgia GOP that is effectively trying to make them operate in the 1800s.
MLB is BLM backwards.
If JCN wins their lawsuit (doubtful), and the All-Star Game is moved back to Atlanta, will JCN then file another lawsuit against MLB on behalf of the local businesses in Denver?
It’s a conspiracy !!11!!!18
JCN attorney Howard Kleinhendler said that small businesses in Georgia “certainly don’t feel as if” the conservative advocacy group’s lawsuit is “political theatrics.”
LOL Good one. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in their next filing.
Apparently JCN is the baby of the Mercers and co-founder of Home Depot Bernie Marcus.
You can lead an All-Star game to Georgia, but you can’t make 'em play!
And they both have the same letters! Coincidence? I think not.
But the whiny posturing is what they truly want.
Sadly, that could well be.
Victimize, claim victimization, victimize, claim victimization, victimize, claim victimization, rinse, repeat.
O/T But so damn funny
Republicans also called for boycotts of corporations that have spoken out against Georgia GOP lawmakers’ restrictive voting law.
Gov. Kemp and fellow Republicans, putting the wishes of Jim Crow reactionaries ahead of the economic well-being of hard-working Georgians who were counting on those corporations for their paycheck.
How dare a private enterprise make a business decision that they believe serves their best interests. How dare they not listen to and pay obeisance to the demands of preening politicians.
Chalk free enterprise as just one more thing Republicans are ready to throw overboard if it doesn’t comport to their rigid ideology.
I wish people would put their balls behind their carefully worded legal bullshit. If I were running MLB, I’d respond to this lawsuit by instituting proceedings to strip the Braves of MLB status, or move them back to Boston. The statement from my office would be to the point: “You want to run a fascist state where 60% of the people aren’t allowed to vote? Then take your worthless asses back to 1865, when there was no baseball.”
GOP: “Free Enterprise Forevuh!”
Also GOP: “The courts should force MLB to fill my pockets with sweet, sweet cash!”
