{"id":547520,"date":"2021-05-31T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547520"},"modified":"2021-05-31T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:35:15","slug":"conservative-business-group-sues-mlb-bring-all-star-game-back-to-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-business-group-sues-mlb-bring-all-star-game-back-to-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Business Group Sues MLB: Bring All-Star Game Back to Atlanta"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fconservative-business-group-sues-mlb-bring-all-star-game-back-to-atlanta%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=547520&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\/05\/GetFile-666.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A conservative group representing small businesses is taking Major League Baseball (MLB) to court after the league moved its All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia, over the state passing new voting law.<\/p>\n<p>Job Creators Network (JCN), a conservative group founded by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, sued MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) on Monday evening in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan on the basis the league damaged Atlanta&#8217;s small business community.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/cancel-culture\/small-business-group-sues-mlb-commissioner-over-moving-all-star-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a>, JCN stated MLB &#8220;violated the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871 and committed &#8216;tortious interference&#8217; in business by canceling the game over a political matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JCN President Alfredo Ortiz has led a campaign against MLB&#8217;s decision with protests in front of MLB&#8217;s Manhattan headquarters and billboards in Times Square, lambasting Rob Manfred, the league&#8217;s commissioner, for caving to leftist activist groups pushing him to boycott Georgia over its new voting law. These leftist groups claim the state&#8217;s new law was racist and discriminatory, even though conservatives and Georgia&#8217;s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp have argued the law merely helps ensure the integrity of mail-in voting and requires voter ID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MLB robbed the small businesses of Atlanta \u2013 many of them minority-owned \u2013 of $100 million,&#8221; Ortiz told Fox Business. &#8220;We want the game back where it belongs. This was a knee-jerk, hypocritical, and illegal reaction to misinformation about Georgia&#8217;s new voting law which includes voter ID.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[M]ajor League Baseball itself requests ID at will call ticket windows at Yankee Stadium in New York, Busch Stadium in St. Louis, and at ballparks all across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JCN&#8217;s lawsuit demands MLB moves the game back to Atlanta&#8217;s Truist Park and the league pay small businesses for damages, which were estimated by the Cobb County Travel and Tourism Bureau to equal approximately $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MLB Defendants intended to punish Georgians because their state enacted a reasonable ballot-integrity statute and to coerce Georgia and its duly elected government to surrender Georgia&#8217;s sovereignty in our federal system,&#8221; the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of hard-working ordinary men and women in the Atlanta area, many reeling from the psychological trauma and economic havoc of the COVID-19 pandemic, relied on MLB&#8217;s unqualified promise to hold the 2021 All-Star Game in Truist Park. They were looking forward to the beginning of a return to normalcy, with the country opening up and the All-Star Game coming to town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 21 months, from July 2019 through March 2021, these men and women planned and budgeted and invested and hoped for a wonderful and profitable event. The damages resulting from the cancellation of the All-Star Game in Atlanta are staggering. More than 8,000 hotel reservations were canceled; revenues from ticket sales and stadium food by the more than 41,000 expected to attend the events at Truist Park were lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative group representing small businesses is taking Major League Baseball (MLB) to court after the league moved its All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia, over the state passing new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278725,"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\/05\/GetFile-666.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Conservative Business Group Sues MLB: Bring All-Star Game Back to Atlanta","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-666.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Conservative Business Group Sues MLB: Bring All-Star Game Back to Atlanta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547520","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=547520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}