Stacey Abrams to blame for costing
Georgia $100 million in lost All-Star
Game revenue: Rand Paul
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/6/2021 1:17:03 PM
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has urged people not to boycott Georgia, but Sen. Rand Paul says she and other Democrats are squarely to blame for Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta. The founder of Fair Fight, Ms. Abrams led the charge against Senate Bill 202, the Georgia election law that requires identification for absentee ballots, expands early voting and bans electioneering within 150 feet of polling entrances, calling it “Jim Crow 2.0.” “There’s all these people who are woke, but now even the woke like Stacey Abrams, are starting to see, oh, no what have I unleashed?
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'Emancipation' film out of Georgia
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Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua yank
'Emancipation' film out of Georgia
over 'regressive voting laws' 37 replies
'Emancipation' film out of Georgia
over 'regressive voting laws' 37 replies
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Let me explain how this works. These woke activists get the leaders
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The esteemed Latinx economist AOC cost NYC a lot more than that by chasing Amazon away, and she was reelected. Taking a firm stand against America is what matters to that crowd.