GOP Coca-Cola Boycott Tests Loyalty of Thousands of Workers in 2022 Battleground States
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Leading Republicans are turning on big business in their crusade against woke America, broadening their attacks previously focused on tech giants to include household names such as Coca-Cola, Delta and Major League Baseball.
Any corporation that has expressed support for progressive ideals and culture, or has condemned Republican efforts to restrict voting rights in states such as Georgia, is in the GOP s firing line. My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnelltold reporters on Monday. Don t pick sides in these big fights.
McConnell’s Shameless Hypocrisy Over Corporate Role In Politics Laid Bare On Twitter Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on September 22, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) April 6, 2021 11:34 a.m.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on Tuesday that recent comments made by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urging corporations stay out of politics projected “a whiff of desperation.”
Looks like I’m not alone detecting in Mitch a whiff of desperation “barking scared”!https://t.co/p9jghVXTrR
The comments calling out McConnell’s shameless desperation amid the corporate protest over a restrictive new voting law in Georgia, come after the Kentucky Republican offered an about-face on Monday regarding the role of corporations in politics.
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Suppressing and controlling the vote has become the Republican Party s most urgent and most defining political issue, putting Washington reporters in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between covering it like any other partisan squabble or as the grotesque, racist, anti-democratic sequel to Trump s Big Lie that it is.
This really shouldn t be a hard one.
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Reporters should be covering the battle over voting as a
civil rights issue. They should be putting it in the context of the urgent need to
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