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April 5, 2021
I come here not to bury MLB, and not really to praise it, but to wonder what else it could have done. On Friday, the league announced that it would be pulling this summer’s All-Star Game from Atlanta in the wake of Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature passing a law that would, among other things, impose burdensome new ID requirements on voters, limit absentee voting, and give the legislature wide latitude to intervene on state and county election boards. It was a move both correct and frustratingly limited, a multi-billion-dollar enterprise both doing the least and also the most it realistically could in the moment.
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Joe Biden backed the move that will cost his voters millions in lost revenue
The county in Georgia, which was due to host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game this year, announced it will lose upward of $100 million in lost revenue over MLB s decision to relocate the game to a different state.
The league revealed last week that it is moving the game out of Georgia after the state passed new laws aimed at tightened the security of future elections.
MLB s decision came after Democrats, leftists, and their allies in the media pushed a number of false claims about the state’s new election law and signaled they would support the league pulling the game from Cobb County and boycotting the state.
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Cobb County is expected to lose approximately $100 million in tourism after Major League Baseball announced that the 2021 MLB All-Star Game would no longer be held in Georgia.
“In the initial stages of the pandemic, many Cobb hotels saw single-digit occupancy numbers,” Cobb Travel and Tourism President Holly Quinlan told CNN.
“The 8,000-plus contracted hotel room nights that will not actualize as a result of the MLB All-Star Game relocation will have a negative impact on Cobb’s hospitality industry and other local businesses, further delaying recovery.”
Major League Baseball moved this season’s all-star weekend festivities after Georgia legislators passed S.B. 202. The recently passed bill would severely limit drop-box voting, require voters to submit ID in order to vote by mail and offer more power in elections to Republican legislators. Also, the bill makes it illegal to pass out food or drinks to voters waiting in long lines on Elect
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