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Black Small-Business Owner FIGHT BACK & Rip MLB for Pulling All-Star Game from ATL! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Businesses are now being held hostage by Black Lives Matter activists.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's gotten so bad that there were one
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  Speaker 1: hundred business executives that were held hostage on a video.
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  Speaker 1: They're being forced to come out and say no to
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  Speaker 1: this new voting rules and laws. Now, this all has
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  Speaker 1: stemmed from what happened in Georgia, and a group of
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  Speaker 1: more than one hundred business community leaders joined a zoom
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  Speaker 1: call to quote exports steps they could take to push
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  Speaker 1: back against legislation being considered in state legislators legislatures across
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  Speaker 1: the country that would tighten, as they describe it, voting laws.
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  Speaker 1: This first being reported by the Washington Post. Now you
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  Speaker 1: may wonder who is being held hostage and who was
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  Speaker 1: forced to be on this call. Let me just give
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  Speaker 1: you some of the top name brands Viacom, CBS, LinkedIn, Walmart,
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  Speaker 1: Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Levi's, you know the gene comp DH,
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  Speaker 1: Shaun Company, Paul Weiss, Cybercurt Merk, you know the shipping
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  Speaker 1: company AMC, Starbucks, American Airlines, the Atlanta Falcons, Target, BCG.
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  Speaker 1: These are just some of the major brands that were
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  Speaker 1: on this call. You got a hundred companies joining together,
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  Speaker 1: they now say quote pushing new voting legislation, are pushing
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  Speaker 1: or fighting against it, depending on how you look at it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why did all these companies come together. It's because all
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  Speaker 1: of these companies are now being held hostage by BLM
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  Speaker 1: and by the extreme socialist Democratic Party. They're afraid of
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  Speaker 1: being called racists. They're afraid of being accused of being
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  Speaker 1: some sort of supporting company of racism. They're if that's
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  Speaker 1: not enough, they're now saying, well, if you don't get
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  Speaker 1: on the call, then you're maybe zenophobic. You may not
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  Speaker 1: be supportive of Joe Biden, you're not supportive m infant structure.
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  Speaker 1: And we also found out over the weekend that our
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  Speaker 1: roads are now racists. Yes, that's what the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: is now selling. Mayor Pete said that racism quote is
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  Speaker 1: physically built into our nation's highway That is what the
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  Speaker 1: new transtation secretary suggested during an interview. That racism is
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  Speaker 1: actually literally built into the nation's highway systems because well,
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  Speaker 1: everything now in America, of course is racist, right, I
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  Speaker 1: mean progressive now see think trades are actually racist. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not joking. I'm gonna tell you about that in a
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  Speaker 1: moment there are there is racism. He went on to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm referring to Mayor Pete physically built into some of
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  Speaker 1: our highways, and that's why the job's plan has specifically
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  Speaker 1: committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided
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  Speaker 1: by these dollars. That's what the South ben Indiana former
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  Speaker 1: mayor said while speaking to a reporter April Ryan this
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  Speaker 1: week in an interview that talked about President Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 1: proposed two trillion dollar government slush fund that they're disguising
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  Speaker 1: the name of an infrastructure plan. He says, our highways
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  Speaker 1: are racists. Well, if you're in Washington, I'm told the
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  Speaker 1: history of the highway is one that was built at
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  Speaker 1: the expensive communities of color in the DC area. There
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  Speaker 1: are stories, and I think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and New
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  Speaker 1: York are most famously saw through the construction of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these highways. Mayor Pete added that there has
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  Speaker 1: been a lack of federal infrastructure project in black communities
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  Speaker 1: throughout the history and said it was just an active neglect,
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  Speaker 1: but rather a conscious It wasn't just an active neglect,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, but rather a conscientious choice, and the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration is going to fix that through this spinning package. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Biden touted his plan saying, we don't just fix this
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  Speaker 1: for today, we're building for tomorrow. Two hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Trains weren't traditional infrastructure either, until America made a choice
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  Speaker 1: to lay down tracks across the country. Biden added, highways
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  Speaker 1: weren't tradish infrastructure until we allowed ourselves to imagine that
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  Speaker 1: roads could connect our nation across state lines. So there
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  Speaker 1: you have it right now. This is what they're selling you.
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  Speaker 1: This insanity is what they're selling you, and that is
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  Speaker 1: to imagine that the roads are racists. Therefore, we need
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  Speaker 1: new roads that aren't racists, because that's how we sell
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  Speaker 1: you on an infrastructure plan. We're now selling this plan
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  Speaker 1: to leverage racial tension in this country as a means
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  Speaker 1: of justification for putting together strategies to rebuild the country
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  Speaker 1: in a socialist society. Now, let me go back to
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  Speaker 1: these one hundred business executives who are meeting, and we
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  Speaker 1: have an administration saying that our roadways are now racist.
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  Speaker 1: This group of more than one hundred business community leaders
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  Speaker 1: got on this zoom call because none of them wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be called racists, right. They say they're now exploring
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  Speaker 1: the next steps they could push to take back. There
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  Speaker 1: can unities and take back and fight back legislation being
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  Speaker 1: considered in state legislators across the country that would actually
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we don't have a lot of fraud
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  Speaker 1: and abuse in our system. It's also now an excuse
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  Speaker 1: for them to not give money to Republicans. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Leaders of Delta American United, Starbucks target LinkedIn Levi Strauss
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  Speaker 1: Boston consultant group all on this call are now saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't give to legislative legislators, governors, congressman, sentators
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  Speaker 1: that actually support these laws. Two of the main avenues
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  Speaker 1: apparently discussed. We're stopping number one, these donations to all
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  Speaker 1: these politicians who support this legislation and also quote postponing
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  Speaker 1: investment in states that approve these measures. Four people who
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  Speaker 1: are on the call said that they believe that the
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  Speaker 1: organizers a Yale management professor's goal is to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that no Republicans get money from any of these companies
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  Speaker 1: any longer. Let me play for you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of how this all was described on Fox News with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Forbes, who responded, that's over the weekend on Zoom
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  Speaker 1: about the new voting laws, like the one that's just
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  Speaker 1: passed in Georgia. I want to bring Steve Forbes into
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  Speaker 1: this because, look, Steve, whether we like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: companies are now taking political sides. What do you make
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  Speaker 1: of it? The key thing is on something like voting rights.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone isn't basic principles than favor of voting rights,
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  Speaker 1: having fair and secure elections, or companies have to take
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  Speaker 1: care of, especially with their brands. Is getting the particulars
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  Speaker 1: right we learned in the case of Georgia, for all
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  Speaker 1: of the emotions, George's new law is less restrictive than
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  Speaker 1: the election laws of Delaware and New York and other
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  Speaker 1: blue states, which, by the way, that doesn't matter of course,
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  Speaker 1: right what Steve Forbes is now saying is the facts.
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  Speaker 1: The is you moved a game from an area in
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  Speaker 1: the country that desperately need the business because you lied
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  Speaker 1: to the people about their laws, claiming they're restrictive because
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  Speaker 1: Republicans put them in, and they're actually less restrictive than
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  Speaker 1: these other liberal states, including the state where you're moving
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  Speaker 1: the game to, which brings me to another part of
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  Speaker 1: this story, business owners are now ripping Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: for pulling the All Star Game from Atlanta, saying that
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  Speaker 1: this is destroying their communities. These minority small business owners
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  Speaker 1: are now getting together in Atlanta and they're blasting Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball commissioner for pushing the very group they claim
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  Speaker 1: to be defending by moving the All Star Game to Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Anderson is a black man owner of a limousine
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  Speaker 1: service that would have likely seen a significant increase in
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  Speaker 1: business during the All Star week. He now told the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon, of course, because no other news media
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  Speaker 1: outlet would actually do their job and interview small business
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  Speaker 1: owners minorities small business owners right, that this move deprived
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  Speaker 1: minority business owners of a much needed opportunity to make
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  Speaker 1: up financial losses from the pandemic. Quote, as the owner
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  Speaker 1: of a transportation service in Atlanta, I know firsthand how
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  Speaker 1: badly our community one of the All Star Game played here.
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  Speaker 1: The one hundred million in revenue that this area was
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  Speaker 1: going to see an opportunity for us to recover many
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  Speaker 1: of the losses that we encouraged during the pandemic. Now,
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  Speaker 1: not only is the revenue gone, we may lose even
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  Speaker 1: more because now people are afraid to book conventions, people
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  Speaker 1: are afraid to do big events, and they are afraid
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  Speaker 1: of planning anything in the Atlanta area because of the
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  Speaker 1: decision by Major League Baseball and people don't want the
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  Speaker 1: negative pr Now, the Major League Commissioner Rob Manfred decide
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  Speaker 1: to move the All Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia
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  Speaker 1: passed a voter reform law to prevent fraudulent voting. Now
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the story that everybody should be
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  Speaker 1: talking about. By the way, with a commissioner, the Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Baseball as a member to gust National, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: he was at the Masters, right, If if the woke
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  Speaker 1: community really wants to go after the Commissioner Baseball, you
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  Speaker 1: should demand that he denounced the Masters, because the Masters
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  Speaker 1: is clearly some evil, rich white man's club. Why is
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  Speaker 1: it that he can still be a part of the Masters.
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  Speaker 1: And Augusta, wouldn't you have to announce the Masters and
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  Speaker 1: quit your membership? Resigned from the Masters? Of course not right,
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  Speaker 1: because it's too much fun to play golf with the
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  Speaker 1: greatest golf course in the world, and it's okay at
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  Speaker 1: the same time to attack a community which on every
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  Speaker 1: other day of the year when baseball season's end, you
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  Speaker 1: have no problem with him spending their money with Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves in the same damn stadium that you just pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of saying it's racist. The amount of hypocrisy from
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball here is just purely disgusting. They are
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  Speaker 1: And again, I wouldn't support Major League Baseball if I
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  Speaker 1: lived in Atlanta at this point, no way. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: go to the game. I wouldn't give them a dime.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't watch the Atlanta Braves. I would make it
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  Speaker 1: hurt because they don't believe what they're doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're just playing to the lowest common denominator. Right they
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  Speaker 1: saw an opportunity to scream, you know, BLM and did
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  Speaker 1: not be a target of BLM. So they want your
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  Speaker 1: money every day to support the Atlanta Braves and Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball and to make them money. But except one
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  Speaker 1: day of the year when they were gonna have the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game, and they want you to go that
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  Speaker 1: stadium the weeks ahead of time and support every team
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  Speaker 1: that plays they are in that stadium and the Atlanta Braves,
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  Speaker 1: and every game after the All Star Game, they want
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  Speaker 1: you to come there spend your money. But they said,
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  Speaker 1: on this one day, we can't do it. We are
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  Speaker 1: going to stand up because of these voting laws. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, after I'm done watching the game, the
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  Speaker 1: commissioner will go to Augusta National and play golf, not
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  Speaker 1: denouncing the masters are Augusta National, of course, and having
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  Speaker 1: no problem saying part of that club. After he says
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  Speaker 1: the state is racist and we must pull our business
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  Speaker 1: from the state. This all coming because Georgia passed a
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  Speaker 1: voter reform law to prevent fraudulent voting. That's it. The
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  Speaker 1: law's chief features include a provision requiring roof of ID
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  Speaker 1: for mail in voting and limits of time period for
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  Speaker 1: requesting an absentee ballot. Though despite criticism from Democratic politicians
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  Speaker 1: and activists, the law significantly expands voting opportunities. The Job
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  Speaker 1: Creators Network, a group that advocates advocates for small businesses,
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  Speaker 1: and a letter to the Commissioner Mansfield, highlight the damage
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  Speaker 1: done specifically to minority business and asking him to move
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  Speaker 1: the game back to Atlanta. Quote. Your decision is punishing
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  Speaker 1: the very groups you claim to be defending, is what
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  Speaker 1: the Job Creator's Network. Alfonso Ortiz wrote, small businesses and
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  Speaker 1: George are hurting and you pulled a multimillion dollar rug
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  Speaker 1: out from underneath them. Don't let activist groups weaponize America's
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  Speaker 1: pastime to push radical ideas that Major League Baseball fans
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  Speaker 1: don't support. Anderson blasted the Union of Politicians and Corporations,
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  Speaker 1: stating that nothing good can happen when politics mixes with sports, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: when big business teams up with politicians, they make bad decisions,
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  Speaker 1: and small businesses and their hard working employees suffer the most.
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  Speaker 1: He's right, by the way, politics should be decided at
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  Speaker 1: the ballot box. There's no place in making business decisions
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  Speaker 1: like where to hold the All Star Game, and a
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  Speaker 1: recent Rasmussen poll, by the way, a plurality of black
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  Speaker 1: voters said they opposed Major League Baseball's decision to move
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  Speaker 1: it's All Star game from Atlanta. A majority almost sixty
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  Speaker 1: percent said it was a bad idea for sports teams
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  Speaker 1: and athletes to get involved in politics as well. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna hurt minorities and then we're gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: hundred companies being held hostage. Getting on a zoom call
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  Speaker 1: saying now we've got an opportunity to stop giving money
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  Speaker 1: to Republican candidates. Delta American United, Starbucks Target LinkedIn Levi
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  Speaker 1: all on this call. Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank was
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  Speaker 1: also on the call. And then what they're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: is they're saying we're gonna stop donations of politicians who
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  Speaker 1: support this legislation. Let's go back to Forbes real quick again.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this from Fox over the weekend on zoom
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  Speaker 1: about the new voting laws like the one that's just
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  Speaker 1: passed in Georgia. I want to bring Steve Forbes into
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  Speaker 1: this because, look, Steve, whether we like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: companies are now taking political sides. What do you make
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  Speaker 1: of it? The key thing is on something like voting rights.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone isn't basic principles in favor of voting rights,
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  Speaker 1: having fair and secure elections or companies have to take
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  Speaker 1: care of, especially with their brands. Is getting the particulars
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  Speaker 1: right we learned in the case of Georgia for all
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  Speaker 1: of the emotions, George's new law is less restrictive than
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  Speaker 1: the election laws of Delaware and New York and other
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  Speaker 1: Blue states. So if a company wants to weigh in
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  Speaker 1: and put its brand on the line, get the facts right,
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  Speaker 1: and weigh in saying this particular thing we don't think
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  Speaker 1: is right, is wrong. But don't do these broadsides until
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  Speaker 1: you get the particulars of each case. And so you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see this around the country. But the key
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  Speaker 1: thing is get the facts right before you weigh in. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Wallace on fault, get the facts right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think the facts matter anymore. Right, it's not about the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Eugene Daniels. He went on MSNBC saying not true that
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  Speaker 1: they're dem controlled states with more restrictive voting laws than Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: This is how much they'll lie on the other networks
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  Speaker 1: to try to get you to believe this. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: this and right now, the fact checkers could fact check
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  Speaker 1: what was just said on MSNBC and they would immediately
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  Speaker 1: know this a lie. But they're pushing these lies. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you got a hundred businesses on a zoom call
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  Speaker 1: saying all right now, we can use this as a
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  Speaker 1: catalyst to stop giving money to any republic As or
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  Speaker 1: conservatives that are in Congress or the state legislator or governors,
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  Speaker 1: because we say that if you support these laws to
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  Speaker 1: protect everyone's right to vote, protect the integrative vote. You're
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  Speaker 1: a racist? Or were you when it made a difference? Eugene.
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  Speaker 1: A Republican argument here is that voting laws are actually
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  Speaker 1: more restrictive in a number of Democratic controlled states than
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia. Does that argument have any truth to it?
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  Speaker 1: Not really there as for you, I love that? Not really? Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: then tell me what is where they're law lying here?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have more days to vote in Georgia than
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  Speaker 1: you do in Colorado where they move the age of
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  Speaker 1: league baseball game? The answer is yes, you have more
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to vote and more ways to vote. Yes. Is
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  Speaker 1: it easier to get an absent de ballot in Georgia
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  Speaker 1: than it is in Colorado? Yes? So again, tell me
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  Speaker 1: as you have two hundred companies speaking out against subs
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  Speaker 1: restrictive quote voting laws, that's what they say, and a
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  Speaker 1: hundred companies on this zoom call this weekend trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how they can take money away from Republican candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Eugene Daniels, Please tell me, and she asked a question,
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  Speaker 1: a loaded question, and you lied. Tell me how it
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  Speaker 1: is easier to vote in Calorado than it is in
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  Speaker 1: Georgia under the new laws. The Republican argument here is
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  Speaker 1: that voting laws are actually more restrictive in a number
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  Speaker 1: of democratic controlled states than in Georgia. Does that argument
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  Speaker 1: have any truth to it? Not really, there's as per
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  Speaker 1: usual with politics, it's not as easy as the side
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  Speaker 1: wants it to be. And depending the part of the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia law that would prevent people from getting food and water,
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  Speaker 1: they point it to Delaware as having kind of a
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  Speaker 1: similar law. It does not. That section of the state's
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  Speaker 1: law is specifically tied to bribery. It doesn't even mention
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  Speaker 1: food or water. New York does have a clause about
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  Speaker 1: people not handing out food and drinks in near polling places,
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  Speaker 1: but the caveat is that it has to be It
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  Speaker 1: can happen if it's of little value, so less than
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  Speaker 1: one dollar, which water certainly falls under. They also point to,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this is where they're just making up crap,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to call them out on it. The
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  Speaker 1: law in Georgia does not say that you can't give
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  Speaker 1: somebody water. What it says is you can't give somebody
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  Speaker 1: water and be doing it for a political purpose to
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  Speaker 1: influence that person's vote. So, in other words, a candidate
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  Speaker 1: or an advocacy group is not allowed to hand out
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  Speaker 1: water or food under a dollar, because you could argue
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  Speaker 1: that a slice of pizza is under a dollar. Right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm sending in a line, you hand me a
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  Speaker 1: piece of pizza, and then a few minutes later you
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  Speaker 1: hand me a diet coke, or you hand me a
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water, and you're with an advocacy group is
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  Speaker 1: which is to defund the police, or be anti gun
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  Speaker 1: or anti whatever, or to support a certain candidate or
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  Speaker 1: a ballot initiative that is trying to influence the voters
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  Speaker 1: while they're in line. We have laws against that. There
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  Speaker 1: is nothing in the Georgia law that says that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot have self serve water or have nonpartisan people that
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  Speaker 1: give out water or food. Democrats keep pushing the narrative, however,
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  Speaker 1: that we're wanting to starve people in line with these
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  Speaker 1: new voting laws, which is just so dumb. A nonpartisan
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  Speaker 1: individual can give out food or drink to somebody in line,
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  Speaker 1: or they have no one standing at a place where
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  Speaker 1: you can get water. If you are standing in line
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  Speaker 1: to vote. The law is very simple in Georgia. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be wearing a T shirt or supporting a certain
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  Speaker 1: candidate or cause or ballot initiative and trying to use
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  Speaker 1: someone wanting water or food in line to then secure
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  Speaker 1: their vote. That is the problem. I think everybody should
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  Speaker 1: understand that the NARA shouldn't be able to give out water.
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  Speaker 1: Neither should the Brady campaign that's anti gun. Black Lives
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  Speaker 1: Matter shouldn't be able to give out water. Neither should
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  Speaker 1: the KKK. We don't want people being able to hand
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  Speaker 1: out food and water, bribing people to vote for them,
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  Speaker 1: or any other gifts. That's something we definitely do not
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  Speaker 1: want to happen. That's something we don't want to happen period.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that we don't want
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  Speaker 1: that to happen. I think it's pretty important that we
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  Speaker 1: make sure that that doesn't happen. That's part of securing
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  Speaker 1: how people vote, making sure that people can't have too
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: much influence on how you vote. But again, MSNBC out there,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Eugene Daniels just lying about this, making it up on MSNBC,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: telling you things that aren't true that it's easy to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: fact check. But they don't stop him, because as long
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: as you put out bad information. You get people to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: declare that somehow these voting rights bills are racist, then
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: all these companies can say we're not giving money anybody
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that supports them. Yeah, is that it has to be.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: It can happen if it's of little value, so less
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: than one dollar, which Water certainly falls under. They also
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: point to Colorado state where I went to college and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: worked in for three years, as having voter ID laws.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: But Colorado has been looked at as the gold standard
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: give me more access, boosting turnout by both Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: Republicans for years. They have a universal vote by mail system,
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  Speaker 1: and more importantly, when it comes to voter ID laws
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of the state, they require some type of identification. However,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they don't require a picture to be on it. Right,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So someone can take a utility bill, a bank statement
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of paycheck, or really any other government document that shows
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: their name and address. And I think, by the way,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about that real quick, Okay, if I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: want to create commit voter fraud, what Eugene Daniel's MSNBC
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: is saying is you should be able to take somebody's mail,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: steal their mail, grab anything in their mail that has
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a name and address, and you should have walk in
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and vote on that person's behalf and not have to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: show any other form of ID. Okay, So if I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: want to really get into this and I want to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: early vote on day one, I guess I could just
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: drive around town and go through mailboxes and just grab
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: all of their mail, or grab one piece of their mail, right,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: just slip one piece and go here it is. I'm bob,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to vote today, and they can't stop you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: from voting. That's what they're advocating for, which is how
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you get absolute voter fraud. This is how you do it. Well,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: if I say that, then now apparently I'm racist. I'm
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not allowed to say that. That's something that is inappropriate
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to say. That's a racist line, all right. So somebody
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: goes to minority community and takes a whole bunch of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: mail out of that minority community, takes a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: stuff out of that minority community, a bunch of mail,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and goes and votes in their behalf. Is that not
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: taking the rights away from minority voters? I would say
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it probably is. I would say it probably is. That
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: would be my I think most people would agree with
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: me that that is taking away the right of a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: minority individual to vote, and that is a problem. But
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: let's just keep going. Let's just keep you attacking, Let's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: keep moving forward with these lies. And that's why these
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred businesses are together discussing how they can stop
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: donations to politicians they call it's truly just to Republicans
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: who support this legislation. The goal of the call, they say,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: was to bring together companies that have issued their own
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: statements following the signage of Georgia's voting bill. The participants
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: didn't set on any final steps. The meeting was the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The meeting comes
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: as backlash crows against Georgie's recently passed voting law in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the GOP battles with companies that have expressed opposition since
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Governor Kemp signed the bill. Companies including Cocola and Delta
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: have spoken out against the legislation. Then Major League Baseball
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: pulled their All Star Game from Atlanta and protests the legislation.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Lawmakers and Texas of advanced legislation on April the first
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that would implement new voting restrictions in the state. There
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: including limits on pulling place ours and reducing options for
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: voters to cast ballots is what the left is now saying.
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  Speaker 1: These states need to understand and these governors that you
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: don't stop, you keep going forward, and you keep moving
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to protect the integrity of the vote. And any of
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: these companies that are in your state getting tax breaks,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: who are now calling you and your citizens racist, kick
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: them the hell out, take away their tax breaks. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: dare you. I know we're right by the way, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I know that they're wrong. Look at look at the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: new data we have coming, for example, from San Francisco.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: San Francisco is where Nancy Plosi's from. More people are
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: moving out of San Francisco than any other major city
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in America in the last year. You won't know why,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: because of government overreach and the psychotic nature of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: government san Francisco, the socialist government in San Francisco. You
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: have overly tax people, you have terrible laws that like
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: they fund the police. You have crime out of control,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and people that have a brand and are leaving. They're done,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: They're leaving. And don't think for a moment that these
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that these democrats actually care about your right to vote.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: They care about manipulating in the elections. That's why they're
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: doing this. Look a look at now how they're wing
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to attack companies. Joe Biden's economic advisor says, quote, I'm
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: not going to negotiate tax rates on TV as they're
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: going to come after these companies because they want a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: lot of these jobs to disappear. So the President has
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: proposed raising the corporate tax rate to twenty eight percent.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Joe Mansion of West Virginia says he wants
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to see the number at twenty five percent. You open
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to that. Look, the President himself said he's going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be talking with members on both sides of the aisle.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Quoting the President to compromise is inevitable. So I'm not
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: going to negotiate tax rates on TV today. I think
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the critical point from President Biden is that the plan
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: pays for itself over fifteen years, and that is extremely important.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You know, one of my main areas of research and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: economics is fiscal policy. And when you're talking about the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: relief plan a temporary measure, it's perfectly fine for that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to be deficit finance. But when you're talking about longer
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: term investments and water in bridges in standing up key sectors,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that don't exist in childcare. I mean, it's amazing. This
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: is this is where they go with this. We're not
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: gonna We're not going to negotiate on TV. Well, you're
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: about to do it to all these companies. You're about
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to hurt all of these companies by raising their taxes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You go, I'm not negotiate on TV. Well, where are
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you going to do it? In a dark room? So
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: no one knows what's going on here? Right? What are
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you gonna do? Now? These African American small business owners
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: that are ripping Atlanta and ripping Major League Baseball for
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: pulling the All Star Game from Atlanta, that's the story
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that the news should be covering. You have the Job
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Creators Network, a group that advocates your small businesses, sending
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a letter to the commissioner highlighting the damage being done
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to minority businesses and ask them to move the game
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: back to Atlanta. They should move the game back, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: they won't. And the reason why is because of politics.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: These hundred plus business executives that talk about going after
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: these places that do this with their voting laws, they're
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: just looking for an excuse to never have to give
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a dime to Republican candidates. Ever, again, it's your choice
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: if you decide to continue to support these companies. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: personally am not going to. I'm going to do everything
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I can to not support these companies because this is
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do. They're trying to shut silence
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and shut down Republican leaders all over the country, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they're doing it now in the name of the voting
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: rights laws, which are actually about your right to protect
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: your vote, your rights to protect and make sure that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: your vote is not being taken away from you. All right. Lastly,
• 27:00
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