Photo: Getty Images Last week, after major corporations headquartered in Georgia publicly condemned the passage of a new law restricting ballot access in the state, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cautioned major firms to tread lightly in their political speech, after spending the last decade of his career encouraging the exact opposite.
Many big corporations — though happy to accept McConnell’s caveat that he “wasn’t talking about political contributions” — don’t appear to be heeding his warning. According to the Washington Post, CEOs and corporate leaders from over 100 companies joined a conference call on Saturday to talk “about potential ways to show they opposed the legislation, including by halting donations to politicians who support the bills and even delaying investments in states that pass the restrictive measures.
The call is an escalation of what McConnell has dramatically described as a “coordinated campaign by powerful and wealthy people to mislead and bully the American people” in response to Republican-led voting restrictions. According to a count by the Brennan Center for Justice, five laws tightening ballot access have been passed since the election, in addition to 55 more bills designed to limit voting proposed in 24 states.
McConnell isn’t the only party leader to see his advice related to the situation in Georgia being ignored. Last week, Donald Trump called for his supporters to boycott Delta, Citigroup, UPS, and Coca-Cola after they criticized the new law, which adds voter ID requirements and limits the number of ballot drop boxes. However, two days after making the request from conservatives, a picture taken of his desk showed what looked like a bottle of Coke in the corner.
Republicans and tRUMP suck and gaetz and moscow suck
Is it accurate and fair to say they own Mitch?
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