“Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D. … to have anything to do with our elections,” Trump said in a statement released by his Save America …
Read More »After Biden backs punishing Georgia over election law, MLB announces MOVING All-Star baseball game and draft from Atlanta
“I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft,” the league’s commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. said on Friday. “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot …
Read More »So much for unity! Conservatives jeer as Biden BACKS baseball league’s Georgia boycott over controversial voting security law
Speaking to ESPN on Wednesday, Biden said he would “strongly support” the baseball league moving its All-Star game in July out of the state, in response to a Republican-authored election security law signed by Governor Brian Kemp last week. “I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would …
Read More »‘Jim Crow in the 21st century’? Biden shares harsh words for Georgia election integrity bill
“This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century. It must end,” Biden said, seemingly referring to past laws pushing racial segregation in the US, in a statement reacting to the bill being signed by Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday. The Election Integrity Act, which easily passed the state House and …
Read More »Georgia adopts election integrity law denounced by Democrats as immoral, ‘evil’ and racist
Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed the Election Integrity Act of 2021 into law on Thursday, just hours after it was approved in the state legislature: 100-75 in the House of Representatives and 34-20 in the Senate. The law requires a valid photo ID for voting by mail, reduces the …
Read More »Georgia mass shooting suspect may have ‘SEX ADDICTION’ and wanted to ‘eliminate temptation’ at massage parlors – police
Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police he was trying to eliminate the temptation of the spas, which he allegedly visited, and claimed he had an addiction to sex. “He gave indications that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction,” Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds told reporters, adding that Long “may have …
Read More »WaPo issues huge correction to story on Trump’s pressuring of Georgia election official, says he was misquoted, but resumes attack
The reported claims that Trump had told the state’s top elections investigator to “find the fraud” behind Joe Biden’s election victory, and that she would be “a national hero” if she did, were completely false, the Post admitted. The newspaper said the error came to light when Georgia’s secretary of …
Read More »Georgia State House approves bill limiting police budget cuts to NO MORE than 5% as Democrats slam law as unconstitutional
The measure passed the state house 101-69 on Wednesday, with lawmakers largely voting along party lines, aside from three Democrats who joined their rivals across the aisle in supporting the bill. It will now be handed off for further debate in the Georgia Senate, where Republicans hold a 34-22 majority. …
Read More »Criminal probe into ‘attempts to influence’ 2020 US election in Georgia targets Trump, media claims
Fulton County DA Fani Willis confirmed the existence of the investigation on Wednesday and said she had sent letters to Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the lieutenant governor, and the attorney general, asking that all records related to the administration of the election should be preserved. “This …
Read More »Georgia secretary of state launches ‘fact-finding probe’ into Trump’s demand to ‘find votes’ in 2020 election
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed the probe on Monday, stating that his office is responding to formal complaints made by a law professor who claims the ex-president illegally pressured officials to find evidence to help overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state. “The Secretary of State’s …
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