What a Pepsi can says about the GOP's rift with corporate Atlanta

[demmiblue]

The election law sparks a new divide between Republicans and Georgia business giants

Moments after gaveling the legislative session to an end early Thursday, House Speaker David Ralston stood before a bank of TV cameras and admitted something that many lifelong Georgians would never say publicly: He purposely cracked open a Pepsi.

Never mind that the Blue Ridge Republican was clutching an ice-cold Dasani, a product of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, as he spoke. Ralston’s acknowledgement he had imbibed Coke’s hated arch-rival earlier in the week capped a barrage of broadsides between state Republicans and Georgia corporate giants that shaped the final day of the legislative session.

It started early Wednesday when Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian issued a scathing indictment of Georgia’s new elections law, a sweeping overhaul that includes new voting restrictions. Coca-Cola’s top boss followed up with a CNBC interview that also pronounced the law “unacceptable.”

“It is a step backwards,” said Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey. “And it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting.”

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/what-a-pepsi-can-says-about-the-gops-rift-with-corporate-atlanta/GOTZC2JN3JE3HFYRDDFHXPWV6E/

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[tulipsandroses]

1. Well how about making people a part of the decision making process. Not corporations. That should go

for all corporate entities. Why do corporations get more of a say so in anything than the people?

[raccoon]

2. I like Pepsi better than Coke anyway. Nt