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Well, I’ll admit it. I didn’t have GOP bashing major corporations on my pandemic bingo card. But bash them they have. When Major League Baseball criticized the newest round of voter suppression coming from Georgia the GOP didn’t pull any punches. Brian Kemp, governor of Georgia slammed this as the latest example of ‘cancel culture.’ Sen Ted Cruz went further and said he would be looking to end MLB’s immunity from anti-trust statutes.
In fact the GOP has gone beyond just bashing corporations, they have taken to threatening them. And not with boycotts either. Ted Cruz wants to revoke MLB’s immunity, which has to be one of the few times a Republican has been championing anti-trust action. Which, btw, I’m in favor of. All the big leagues should lose their immunity to anti-trust action. How about we break up some big banks while we’re at it Ted Cruz? Probably not unless they also criticize voter suppression.
Senate Minority leader, the turtle himself, told Corporate CEO’s to ‘stay out of politics’ on Monday April 5th, though he walked that back some on Wednesday saying he just meant that he wanted them to ‘read the bill’. Back in Georgia the state lawmakers introduced a bill to take away a tax break from Delta to punish them for their criticism, warning them ‘you don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ but the measure didn’t pass. The…
