{"id":391875,"date":"2021-04-06T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=391875"},"modified":"2021-04-06T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:58:27","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-blasts-woke-corporations-warns-of-serious-consequences-for-serving-far-left-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-blasts-woke-corporations-warns-of-serious-consequences-for-serving-far-left-mobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Blasts \u2018Woke\u2019 Corporations, Warns Of \u2018Serious Consequences\u2019 For Serving \u2018Far-Left Mobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmitch-mcconnell-blasts-woke-corporations-warns-of-serious-consequences-for-serving-far-left-mobs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=391875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-482.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) hammered corporations Monday for getting involved in political fights and engaging in \u201ceconomic blackmail\u201d to push the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/mcconnell-corporations-shouldnt-fall-for-absurd-disinformation-on-voting-laws\">statement<\/a> warning corporations of \u201cserious consequences\u201d if they continue to denounce and take action against states such as Georgia for its election reforms. He went on to accuse President Joe Biden and others of lying about the Georgia reforms, and and claimed corporate heads are acting as Democratic puppets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are witnessing a coordinated campaign by powerful and wealthy people to mislead and bully the American people,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThe President has claimed repeatedly that state-level debates over voting procedures are worse than Jim Crow or \u2018<em>Jim Crow on steroids<\/em>.\u2019 Nobody actually believes this. Nobody really thinks this current dispute comes anywhere near the horrific racist brutality of segregation. But there\u2019s an old cynical saying that&nbsp;\u2018history is just the set of lies agreed upon.\u2019 And a host of powerful people and institutions apparently think they stand to benefit from parroting this big lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell said the outrage over the Georgia law is performative, noting that \u201cplenty of Democrat-run states allow fewer days of early voting than the new Georgia law requires.\u201d The minority leader also said that most Americans favor voter I.D. requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis disinformation has a purpose,\u201d McConnell asserted. \u201cWashington Democrats want to pass a sweeping bill that would let them rewrite all 50 states\u2019 election laws and turn the Federal Election Commission into a Democrat-run partisan body. This power grab is impossible to defend, so the left wants to deflect. Instead of winning the debate, they want to silence debate by bullying citizens and entire states into submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 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,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cBusinesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that citizens reject at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines have issued statements condemning Georgia election reforms signed into law last month. Major League Baseball (MLB) condemned the state and moved its 2021 all-star game and rookie draft out of Atlanta over the law. The MLB move has already sparked some blowback in Congress, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gowokegobroke-cruz-lee-call-to-end-mlb-antitrust-protections-after-league-boycotts-georgia\">Republicans<\/a> are leading a push to remove special protections the MLB has against U.S. antitrust laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of @MLB\u2019s stance to undermine election integrity laws, I have instructed my staff to begin drafting legislation to remove Major League Baseball\u2019s federal antitrust exception,\u201d Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) said Friday. \u201cAn overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support requiring an ID to vote, and any organization that abuses its power to oppose secure elections deserves increased scrutiny under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) hammered corporations Monday for getting involved in political fights and engaging in \u201ceconomic blackmail\u201d to push the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda.McConnell issued a statement warning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311711,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-482.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mitch McConnell Blasts \u2018Woke\u2019 Corporations, Warns Of \u2018Serious Consequences\u2019 For Serving \u2018Far-Left Mobs\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-482.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mitch McConnell Blasts \u2018Woke\u2019 Corporations, Warns Of \u2018Serious Consequences\u2019 For Serving \u2018Far-Left Mobs\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}