Civic Register
| 4.2.21
Laura Ingraham Warns Coke: ‘Patriots Will Choose Another Beverage’ – Should Companies Take Sides Over Georgia Voter Law?
How do you feel about CEOs criticizing GA's new voting law?
What's the story?
- CEOs for two of Georgia's largest corporations - Coca-Cola and Delta - are criticizing the Peach State's newly-passed voting restrictions.
- On Wednesday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian wrote in a memo to employees that the law was “unacceptable” and “based on a lie” of widespread fraud in last November’s election. Soon after, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told CNBC that the legislation was "unacceptable, ... wrong, and needed to be remedied."
"It does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voting convenience, about ensuring election integrity," Quincey added.
- Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham attacked Coke's CEO, tweeting that there could be commercial blowback for the company's stance:
"Patriots will choose another beverage. Big mistake by @CocaCola. Don't poke the bear."
- GOP lawmakers in the Georgia House also struck back at Delta, voting to strip the company of a tax break worth tens of millions of dollars annually. The state Senate, however, failed to take up the measure.
-Josh Herman
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ALL HANDS ON DECK. THE GOO IS UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY AT EVERY TURN.
How's the Coca-Cola Boycott doing?
@frank-001. BURP! Finished 2liters and not buying another
You CONservatives need to make up your mind, are Corporations people or NOT??? You flip flop more than a fish out of the water and it really makes you look bad. The truth is this is not like Citizen United, this is companies hoping to win points and some of them might even just be doing the RIGHT thing for America. So make up your mind or expect thinking and caring people to call you out for the crooks that you are!!!! You are NOT even trying to hide the fact you are stealing elections by denying Americans the right to vote. When you get the bottom of the barrel, you just start to dig.
@verymary can we just pitch the dictionary (I prefer Webster’s Unabridged) in the general direction of Laura Ingraham’s head and see if she really can think fast on her own? Or if she has to wait for instructions from her ‘patriotic’ 🤮 overlords?
I think they have an opinion and they should not lose their right to express that opinion as long as they are not buying candidates for public office.
Whoever does not support the new voting laws, also support the democRATs stealing elections. Traitors, all of you!
Republicans were elated when Citizens United came done. Not so happy now. You reap what you sow.
Ingraham!....does she mean "True patriots" like the Donald who like a 3 year old his his diet coke behind the phone AFTER he called for the boycott?.....Pathetic!
They vote and have opinions as we all do. They are just a little more vulnerable when they speak out. They answer to a board of directors and like many politicians, they have people who advise them. If the stockholders dislike their actions they can be removed a lot faster than any politician can. As for the opinions of the news, we all know they thrive on controversy.