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Forever President Barack Obama is once again setting the bar high when it comes to how a President is supposed to be, something Donald Trump could NEVER!
Following Georgia’s new sweeping election law, Major League Baseball announced its decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta. The law imposes many obstacles to voting, CNN reported.
On Saturday, Obama congratulated the league for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens.”
However, Democrats and Republicans have a different view on the league’s move, including Trump, who has called for a boycott of the MLB and all of the “woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections.”
Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed the legislation last month that imposed voter identification requirements for absentee ballots and allowed state officials to take over election boards. It also limits the use of ballot drop boxes and criminalizes those who give or offer voters food and drinks while they wait in line to vote.
Georgia helped President Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election. Biden called the bill “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and “an atrocity.”
During the MLB’s Friday announcement, it said it still plans to honor baseball and Hall of Fame legend Hank Aaron, who played for the Atlanta Braves.
MLB’s decision to relocate the All-Star Game comes as the tourism industry–one of the hardest hit during the coronavirus pandemic–is still struggling to recover.
A Cobb County tourism official estimated that the decision would cost the city more than $100 million in a loss.
Kemp slammed the MLB’s decision during a Saturday news conference saying the league caved to “fear and lies from liberal activists” and putting “the wishes” of Biden and Democrat Stacey Abrams “ahead of the economic well-being of hard-working Georgians who were counting on the All-Star Game for a paycheck.”
Atlanta’s Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN on Saturday that the league’s decision would likely be the “first of many boycotts of our state to come” and encouraged Republican state lawmakers, who passed the measure, to repeal it or make changes.
Bottoms added, “I certainly understand it,” adding that “it is hurting our economy and it’s my hope that, finally, leaders across the state will listen.”
“Just as the legislators and the governor made the decision to go forward with this bill, people are making decisions not to come to our state. And it’s going to impact millions of Georgians, employment, small businesses, our corporations, and it’s very unfortunate,” she said.
Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 3, 2021
