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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:41 PM Mar 2021

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Coca Cola and Home Depot can put their money where their mouth is

Coca Cola and Home Depot can put their money where their mouth is and move or threaten to move their operations to Virginia.

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Coca Cola and Home Depot can put their money where their mouth is (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2021 OP

...and UPS... and Porsche... and Mercedes Benz... and Cox Enterprises CurtEastPoint Mar 2021 #1

GA would see the light quickly DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2021 #2

Not to mention all the film studios and associated employment here. Film is big here. CurtEastPoint Mar 2021 #3

And perhaps resign their membership in ALEC... Mister Ed Mar 2021 #4

Too late now- the time for corporate action was weeks ago, not after the bill has been signed Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #5

CurtEastPoint

(18,650 posts)

1. ...and UPS... and Porsche... and Mercedes Benz... and Cox Enterprises

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:47 PM

Mar 2021

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. GA would see the light quickly

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:48 PM

Mar 2021

GA needs them more than they need GA

CurtEastPoint

(18,650 posts)

3. Not to mention all the film studios and associated employment here. Film is big here.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:27 PM

Mar 2021

Mister Ed

(5,940 posts)

4. And perhaps resign their membership in ALEC...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:58 PM

Mar 2021

...the American Legislative Exchange Council, which mass-produces right-wing wet-dream legislation like these voter-suppression bills, and hands them off to Republican state legislators.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,624 posts)

5. Too late now- the time for corporate action was weeks ago, not after the bill has been signed

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:24 PM

Mar 2021

Of course, boycotts should still happen, to punish the companies’ inaction.

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