Top CEOs speak out against Georgia's voting restrictions

[DonViejo]

Shawna Chen

Google became the latest major corporate player to express concern about Georgia's law curbing voting rights, which critics say will disproportionately impact Black communities.

Why it matters: States often take cues from how hard businesses push back. But many of these corporations, several of which are based in Georgia, could have spoken up earlier when the law was being considered or before the governor signed.

Activists pressed Georgia-based businesses to publicly oppose the legislation for weeks before it was signed into law, and are now calling for people to boycott the companies.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) dismissed the backlash on Wednesday, telling CNBC: “I would encourage these CEOs to look at other states that they’re doing business in and compare what the real facts are to Georgia."

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Hey, don't necessarily blame the corporations...one main focus of blame is the state GOP, plain

and simple. This is unpatriotic as one can get in this Country...to basically hamstrung voting rights for any other party besides the GOP to basically insure that the GOP wins every time. This is flat out wrong. This is flat out corruption. This is not America at its best, and if anything, is America at its worse.

What in the hell happened to the GOP to be so afraid of voters, to not be willing to step forward and do the political compromises that it takes for a political party to survive? The GOP has survived since at least the days of Lincoln and now it is running amok, like a chicken without its head, desperate to retain any scrap of power.

I (IMHO) attribute this to several things mostly, that the GOP isn't no longer a party for the individual but in fact, the party of the $ millionaires and billionaires, the party of those persons and/or sleazy corporate entities who are not interested in the well being of individuals (hint, racists, white supremacists, want-to-be dictators, ultra-survivalists, those w/ a GOD is coming complex (too much so), etc.). The GOP of today represents solely the interests of its wealthy patrons and thus, the issues it pushes on the surface to stay in power are those 'red button' issues and under the surface, retains the deep tax cuts obtained in 2017, opposes any additional spending measures of any kind since they know that their taxes will go up.

In short, this is Un-American as one can get, far worse than being a communist or anything like that, for at least a communist or anything similar would be concerned w/ the general welfare of others too, not just themselves.