"The party that thinks corporations are people and cancel culture has gone to far officially try to cancel a corporation for using free speech."
What a bunch of vaginas....MLB moves the game so lets get retribution.... And Cruz is the driest vagina out there
I can hear big business now: "Hey, let's just cut these individual, clown politicians off completely!" We'll just have to wait and see how it all plays out. When it comes to their personal piggy bank, clowns aren't really as dumb as this dog.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/will-smith-antoine-fuqua-movie-georgia-voting-law Will Smith And Antoine Fuqua Won't Shoot Their Slavery Movie In Georgia Due To Its New Voting Law “At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice," they said in a joint statement first published in Deadline. "We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access. "The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state." In the 2017 fiscal year, the film industry generated more than $9.5 billion in economic impact in the state, which has led others including Bernice King, the youngest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., to question who would be worse off in the case of major protests.
There are two sides, or more, to every issue. Sometimes the right and wrong side are unclear. To this issue,i.e., whether peoples' access to voting should be suppressed if you don't like the way they vote, there is a clear right side. In this instance the right side is that of the political left. Let's recognize it and move on. Which means practically speaking everyone, that can possibly do so, needs to move their business out of Georgia until those jackasses in the Georgia legislature cut this crap out. Sorry Stacey, everyone with a brain larger than a walnut is on your side, but the sad truth is that in America, dollars speak louder than words.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceos-p...=tt8vs4ss5hb9mh8&reflink=share_mobilewebshare CEOs Plan New Push on Voting Legislation Companies from PayPal to AMC have signaled they will support joining effort for voter access, people say Dozens of chief executives and other senior leaders gathered on Zoom this weekend to plot what several said big businesses should do next about new voting laws under way in Texas and other states. Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express Co. , and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., urged the leaders to collectively call for greater voting access, according to several people who attended. Messrs. Chenault and Frazier cautioned businesses against dropping the issue and asked CEOs to sign a statement opposing what they view as discriminatory legislation on voting, the people said. A statement could come early this week, the people said, and would build on one that 72 Black executives signed last month in the wake of changes to Georgia’s voting laws. Mr. Chenault told executives on the call that several leaders had signaled they would sign on, including executives at PepsiCo Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and Hess Corp. , among others, according to the people. PayPal confirmed it has signed the statement. PepsiCo, T. Rowe Price and Hess didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. As more companies and their leaders have spoken out on the issue in recent weeks, their stands have drawn the ire of Republican state and federal legislators who say companies are miscasting the matter and shouldn’t act as shadow lawmakers. Meanwhile, progressive activists and others who oppose the laws have said that the actions leaders are taking aren’t strong enough. Many CEOs now feel a duty, or pressure, to make their views explicitly known to employees and others, executive advisers said. Plenty of companies remain wary of wading into politically charged areas. One executive from a Fortune 100 consumer-products company said board members, employees and vendors are pressing leaders to speak out, but doing so could put a bull’s-eye on the company. “It’s really a no-win situation from a corporate standpoint,” the executive said. Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, who also owns the Atlanta United soccer team and PGA Tour Superstore, said on the call he believes a large share of fans of the National Football League, Major League Soccer and Professional Golfers’ Association want the groups to make their positions known on voting rights, people on the call said. Mr. Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot Inc., also said some fans are expecting the NFL to say more now compared with five years ago when NFL player Colin Kaepernick first spoke out on racial justice, the people said. Mellody Hobson, the chairwoman of Starbucks Corp.’s board, said on the call that political unrest is bad for business and executives should work together on voting issues as states consider legislation and as the trial over George Floyd’s killing continues, the people said. Ms. Hobson declined to comment through a spokeswoman. Some leaders spoke out in favor of signing on to the new statement, including AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. CEO Adam Aron and CyberCore Technologies CEO Tina Kuhn, according to people familiar with the call. Another who spoke out in favor was Estée Lauder Cos. director Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who founded the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, a group that focuses on bridging the wealth divide, the people said. Others didn’t speak out. Mr. Aron and an AMC spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment. Ms. Kuhn and Ms. Forester de Rothschild said they were proud to support the statement. The issue is unlikely to dissipate soon. More than 350 different voting bills are under consideration in dozens of states, according to a tally from the Brennan Center for Justice, a public-policy think tank. Some executives on the call described some bills as either racist or restrictive, and several participants described their efforts as critical to democracy, rather than partisan. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management professor, helped convene the gathering; more than 100 CEOs and other senior business leaders were on the call. Other groups involved were the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism and the Leadership Now Project, a group started by Harvard Business School alumni whose principles include that democracy must be renewed, diversity is an asset and the economy must work for all. Mr. Sonnenfeld said many corporate leaders are concerned that voting legislation could affect employees or other stakeholders. “They don’t want wedge issues,” he said. “They just don’t want angry constituencies. It’s not in the interest of business.” Brad Karp, chairman of law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, has organized dozens of large-law-firm leaders to put out a separate statement that would call on government officials to make voting easier and challenge bills that impose unnecessary obstacles, according to people on the call and people familiar with the efforts. Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, who plans to sign the new statement, said that in his conversations with CEOs, including Republican chief executives, most have said they don’t see the need for laws to tighten voter access, though many are fearful of speaking out. “There is no more difficult job in America today than leading a public company,” Mr. Walker said. “There are so many stakeholders who have a point of view about what ought to be the priority of your company, and have views that are sometimes diametrically opposed.”