Atlanta Democrat Park Cannon was arrested last month after she repeatedly knocked on the door of Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s office as he prepared to sign a controversial bill overhauling Georgia’s elections.
State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta, is placed in handcuffs by Georgia State Troopers after being asked to stop knocking on a door that leads to Gov. Brian Kemp’s office at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 25, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
ATLANTA (CN) An Atlanta-area district attorney declined Wednesday to prosecute a Georgia lawmaker who was arrested last month for knocking on Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s door as he gave a televised speech before signing a controversial new voting bill into law.
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April 4th, 2021
By Maya J. Carter
It no longer comes to a surprise this day and age that the GOP flips and flops like a trout swimming upstream. Now, every time one turns on the news, the level of their hypocrisy only heightens. It is almost as if they are outdoing themselves in a race to oblivion regarding their principles and standards.
The latest display of mind-boggling GOP sanctimony comes at the expense of their supposed besties…corporations. After all, are they not the party that touts the protection of “corporate personhood” – essentially that corporations are people, too? The GOP usually comes quicker to the defense of corporations than a Florida tax collector friend of Congressman Matt Gaetz can display his tax collector badge to write up a traffic warning. This is particularly true when corporations take stances on issues regarding religious rights, unlimited financial donations to GOP coffers, and taxation, among other things benefiting the right.
A Republican congresswoman has called out Major League Baseball for moving an All-Star game out of Georgia over its controversial new voter-ID law - while still requiring fans to show photo identification cards to pick up tickets.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace suggested the league s ticket policy was hypocritical given its opposition to the law, which will require voters to provide a state ID number on their absentee ballot. Hey @MLB, this you? Rep. Mace wrote, along with a screenshot of the Will Call policy at mlb.com.
The official policy states: Group and hospitality tickets left at Will Call will be held under one person s name, and that person will need a picture ID to pick up their tickets.