Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Mocks MLB, Stacey Abrams Over Boycott As Atlanta Preps For World Series
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) took a shot at Major League Baseball (MLB) on Saturday after the Atlanta Braves team secured a World Series birth for the first time in decades.
The Braves’ win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday earned the Georgia baseball team its first National League pennant since 1999. The win also ensured that the World Series will be played in part in Atlanta’s Truist Park months after the MLB moved its All-Star game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s new voting laws.
“While Stacey Abrams and the MLB stole the All-Star Game from hardworking Georgians, the Braves earned their trip to the World Series this season and are bringing it home to Georgia,” Kemp tweeted, also hitting Democratic activist Stacey Abrams. “Chop On, and Go @Braves!”
While Stacey Abrams and the MLB stole the All-Star Game from hardworking Georgians, the Braves earned their trip to the World Series this season and are bringing it home to Georgia.
Chop On, and Go @Braves!
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) October 24, 2021
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced the decision to move the 2021 MLB All-Star Game and the MLB draft out of Georgia in April after Kemp signed into law a number of new laws designed to strengthen Georgia’s elections. Manfred suggested that the new laws did not align with MLB “values.”
“Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said statement. “I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.”
Manfred’s announcement came after a number of prominent Democrats, including Abrams and President Joe Biden, pushed false claims about the voting laws and compared them to racist “Jim Crow” laws. While Abrams condemned the MLB’s decision to move its events out of Georgia afterward, she was a prominent voice in pushing boycotts as a potential pressure tactic before the MLB’s announcement.
An Abrams spokesman responded to Kemp’s tweet by taking another shot at the governor over Georgia’s new election laws.
“As Braves fans across the country were celebrating, Brian Kemp swung and missed again with his bizarre deflection of blame for the harm to Georgians resulting from a bill that he signed,” Abrams spokesman Seth Bringman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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