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“Nothing has changed for mail-in ballots, Election Day or early voting,” he said. “And anyone who says different is lying to you.”
In the past several days, however, major corporations such as American Airlines and Dell Technologies have come out against the measures. Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a statement that the bills amount to “unnecessary restrictions on the right to vote.”
Corporations have condemned voting legislation that passed last month in Georgia, but only after the measures passed. Republican lawmakers who pushed for the legislation reportedly received millions in corporate donations in recent years.
Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter in Georgia, said his group is applying lessons learned in his state to what is happening in Texas. He said “strong words” from companies like American Airlines and Dell need to be met with “strong actions,” which include no longer giving political contribution
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Walmart PRIDE, the company s LGBTQ employee resource group, aims to make Walmart the most diverse, inclusive company it can be, writes a co-chair of the group on Walmart s website. I think it s working.
The largest private company in the U.S., Walmart donates to numerous LGBTQ groups and sponsors dozens of Pride events each year (and profits from selling Pride gear). While its billionaire owners are right-wing Christian fundamentalists, the retail behemoth has over the last decade rebranded as an LGBTQ advocate.
The Human Rights Campaign, a prominent LGBTQ rights organization, gave Walmart a perfect score of 100 in its 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
“Parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government.”
That was Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday, weighing into the national debate over the role of business in politics. The debate came to a head after Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta to demonstrate its condemnation of Georgia’s new voting law, which some Democrats have compared to Jim Crow voter suppression. Dozens of companies, from Coca-Cola to Delta to Microsoft, have publicly decried Georgia’s law and similar efforts that Republicans are proposing in more than 40 states.
Mr. McConnell and his colleagues have in turn said that companies would “invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs.”