{"id":920645,"date":"2021-10-25T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=920645"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:28:49","slug":"ridiculous-to-inject-politics-into-sports-gov-kemp-calls-out-mlb-as-atlanta-is-set-to-host-world-series-after-losing-all-star-game-over-election-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ridiculous-to-inject-politics-into-sports-gov-kemp-calls-out-mlb-as-atlanta-is-set-to-host-world-series-after-losing-all-star-game-over-election-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ridiculous To Inject Politics Into Sports\u2019: Gov. Kemp Calls Out MLB As Atlanta Is Set To Host World Series After Losing All-Star Game Over Election Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">52<\/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%2Fridiculous-to-inject-politics-into-sports-gov-kemp-calls-out-mlb-as-atlanta-is-set-to-host-world-series-after-losing-all-star-game-over-election-law%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=920645&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--><p>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called the MLB\u2019s decision back in April to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to Colorado over Georgia\u2019s voter integrity law a \u201cpurely political decision\u201d as Atlanta is set to co-host the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really ridiculous to inject politics into sports and then to baseball, but that\u2019s what they did and then they moved it to a state, Colorado, that\u2019s more restrictive than Georgia is,\u201d Kemp told \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a purely political decision driven by pressure from Stacey Abrams and a lot of activist groups out there. They lied about the Elections Integrity Act said it\u2019s suppressive, said it\u2019s&nbsp; Jim Crow 2.0. It\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leftists slammed Georgia\u2019s voting integrity law as racist when it was signed into law in March. Democratic Georgia state Rep. Donna McLeod called the bill \u201cJim Crow 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/washington-post-joe-biden-four-pinocchios-georgia-voting-law\/\">criticized the legislation<\/a> and claimed the bill&nbsp; was \u201cJim Crow on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Failed gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams eviscerated the election law, claiming it was designed to suppress the black vote in Georgia.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/01\/biden-pressures-mlb-move-all-star-game-atlanta-georgia-voting-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Pressures MLB To Move All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Over GA Voting Law)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe there are components of it that are racist,\u201d Abrams told Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/stacey-abrams-spars-republicans-georgia-elections-law-racist-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">while appearing<\/a> before the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggesting the legislation contained \u201cdeliberate attempts\u201d to suppress nonwhite voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got early voting going on right now all across the state of Georgia and there\u2019s no horror stories. Even though the Justice Department is suing us we\u2019re going to fight back and I believe the law will stand as is,\u201d Kemp said.<\/p>\n<p>After MLB <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/02\/biden-manfred-mlb-pressure-all-star-game-atlanta-georgia-elections-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> in April that it would be moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/georgia-voting-bill-absentee-voting-id-requirement-food-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voter integrity law<\/a>. It moved the game to Denver, Colarado \u2014 a largely white city \u2014 from Atlanta, which has a majority <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/social-justice-major-league-baseball-all-star-game-atlanta-georgia-denver-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">black population<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The league said in a tweet that said it supported \u201cvoting rights for all Americans\u201d and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1121951219512\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLB<\/a> announces it\u2019ll move the All-Star Game and Draft out of Atlanta due to the state passing a new elections law last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rBVUQ6FMJG\">pic.twitter.com\/rBVUQ6FMJG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed O\u2019Keefe (@edokeefe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edokeefe\/status\/1378058755481481218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell look, this is going to be great for hard working Georgians,\u201d Kemp said of the World Series, noting that the decision to move the All-Star game was \u201cso outrageous\u201d because it took $100 million away from small businesses \u2014 many of which were owned by minorities \u2014 \u201cfor no reason other than politics.\u201d&nbsp; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/washington-post-joe-biden-four-pinocchios-georgia-voting-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Washington Post Gives Biden \u2018Four Pinocchios\u2019 Over Georgia Voting Bill Claim)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7189853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7189853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams arrives to meet with US President Joe Biden at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on March 19, 2021.&nbsp; AFP (Photo by ERIC BARADAT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s great to see the game coming here for the team and the fans and the organization, but it\u2019s also good for those small business owners and hard working Georgians,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s a great win for the team, the organization, but especially for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called the MLB\u2019s decision back in April to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to Colorado over Georgia\u2019s voter integrity law a \u201cpurely political decision\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920645","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=920645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}