Coca-Cola And Home Depot Oppose Georgia Push To Restrict Voting

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Coca-Cola and Home Depot, two major corporations based in Georgia, have voiced their opposition to the Republican-led effort to restrict access to voting in the state, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Major corporations in Georgia have been under pressure from civil liberties groups to stand against legislation advancing in the Georgia General Assembly that would make it harder for people to vote, disproportionately so for racial and low-income minority groups.

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce issued a statement to CNBC that expressed its “concern and opposition” to provisions in two bills, SB 241 and HB 531, that restrict voter access.

Coca-Cola and Home Depot representatives told The Washington Post their companies were “aligned” with the chamber’s statement.

Voting rights advocates have called for stronger action from the chamber’s member companies, which include Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Aflac, UPS, Southern Co. and Delta Air Lines.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coca-cola-home-depot-georgia-voting_n_605006e8c5b685610fd1dcf0

[JI7]

1. Anyone know if Sports Teams are saying anything about this ?

I know sports teams refusing to play in places that enacted anti lgtbtq measures was effective like in North Carolina which got rid of their Republican Governor some years ago.

[Celerity]

2. To show you how much racism is foundational bedrock for so much of the Rethug voting bloc,

last week (I think it was last week, if not the week before) I saw a panel interview on MSNBC where they said that Axios and Morning Consult deep data probing and polling found that amongst marginally attached Rethugs and then independents, one of the things that came up over and over as to why they voted for Trump was the NFL's reaction to BLM/racial justice. Wish I could find that video, but I forget what show it was on.

[certainot]

10. or the 3 Ga universities that broadcast sports on 14 X-limbaugh stations. so they're using athletes

to help sell the legislation. rw radio has been instrumental selling the predicate for republican voter suppression for more than 20 years - such as the lies that democrats help 'illegal' aliens/brown people to vote, and it's been ramped up into millions

from fakenewsradio.org
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

those are just 3 of 87 unis listed there that broadcast on 260 X-limbaugh stations, and it's likely there are more and it's possible that the atlanta falcons, hawks, and other pro teams endorse rw radio likewise

those are absurd relationships and one athlete or team or uni could start an avalanche that RW radio could not recover from as advertisers headed for the hills. it's already in 'trouble' trying to replace limbaugh

[Donkees]

3. EXPOSED: The Major Corporations Funding Voter Suppression Efforts in Georgia

Mar 3, 2021

Georgia Republicans failed to overturn the 2020 election. Now they’re rushing through bills to prevent Black Georgians from voting in future elections, and big corporations like Coca Cola and UPS are funding their efforts.

[Bucky]

4. Prediction: their lobbyists still give loads of cash to Republicans

No one's going to put any real dollars behind rejecting this racist antidemocratic law. They'll issue statements and condemnations, but as soon as the same R lawmakers vote to cut corporate taxes or deregulate their respective industries, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Aflac, UPS, Southern Co, and Delta Air Lines will start jizzing dollars into their reelection coffers

[ad121rome]

5. Believe?

I will believe these corporations care when they give Democrat candidates more than 50% of there donations and include the message in their advertising campaigns. Proof is in the pudding. Put up or shut up.

[ecstatic]

6. I better start hearing more names on that list

And fast. We make you, and we can break you.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Opposing

Is not threatening to move their headquarters

[twodogsbarking]

8. Yada, yada.

More yada.

[Norbert]

9. Well I hope this is true.

You do not want to go up against Coca Cola in Georgia.

[JT45242]

11. No way that HOME DEPOT actually opposes these the CEO funded the Trump lawsuits

For Home Depot this has to be damage control after calls to boycott because of the CEO's bankrolling the many lawsuits to help Trump.

"We the company HOME DEPOT support voting rights. Do not look at the man with all the money who owns the company. That is not Home Depot's money ---it is his money and any similarity to money that came through these stores into his possession is purely coincidental."