Seriously, this is what Sen. Chuck Grassley said - “Most infamously, Major League baseball moved the All-Star game from Atlanta, a move that is like to cost the city’s economy a 100 million jobs ...”. This was at the Senate Judiciary hearing on election laws today, titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote.”
Perhaps, he meant something else but he was reading from a sheet of paper. Should we thank some mischievous staffer for writing it and making Sen. Grassley look like a fool?
But this seems to be a common viral disease with republicans of all stripes these days — exaggerate, lie, pull stuff out of their *** — after all, their base couldn’t care less, since they could not tell you the population of Atlanta or Georgia or that of the United States.
The reactions make up for a fun-filled Tuesday. Nothing serious, but a break from the weighty matters of the week — the Floyd trial, Infrastructure, Climate Summit, Earth Day, American Jobs Plan, American Families Plan, helicopters on Mars and space travel to the ISS.
Dave Weigel makes a good point — can’t Georgia republicans allow water in voting lines in exchange for 100m jobs?
Does Grassley have a time machine?
Forget hamburger flipping, hot dog rolling is the future!
MLB — the job creator!
Atlanta’s population is 488,800; that of Georgia 10.6 million.
Still trying to make sense of the 100m number … 😄
People misunderestimate the job-creation power of MLB :)
Denver, we got a problem. A nice one.
You can watch the Senate Judiciary hearing on election laws titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote” here -