McConnell versus the First Amendment

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Judd Legum
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1. Mitch McConnell took $4.3 million from corporations over the last 5 years to fund his campaigns and now he wants corporations to "stay out of politics"

McConnell versus the First Amendment
In recent days, more corporations have spoken out against voter suppression laws. In Texas, American Airlines and Dell announced their opposition to two major bills to restrict voting under conside...
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5:42 AM · Apr 6, 2021

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In recent days, more corporations have spoken out against voter suppression laws. In Texas, American Airlines and Dell announced their opposition to two major bills to restrict voting under consideration in the legislature. In Georgia, Delta and Coca-Cola called the new law to restrict voting "disappointing," "unacceptable," and "based on a lie." Major League Baseball (MLB) decided to move the All-Star game from Atlanta, saying the league "fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box." On April 2, a coalition of more than 200 companies — including Dow, Twitter, HP, Paypal, and Uber — released a statement opposing "hundreds of bills threatening to make voting more difficult in dozens of states nationwide."

A group of 72 black corporate executives released an open letter calling on corporate America to publicly reject legislation that restricts voting. "Corporations have to stand up. There is no middle ground," former American Express CEO Ken Chenault, who helped organize the letter, said.

One person was quite upset about these developments: Mitch McConnell.

On Monday morning, McConnell issued a blistering statement targeting corporations who publicly opposed legislation to restrict voting:

Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling.

From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.

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