Tenney Comments on MLB Decision to Move Allstar Game from Georgia Following Election Reform Bill

Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) today released the following statement in response to the Major League Baseball's decision to move it's All-Star Game from Atlanta, GA after the state legislature passed an election reform bill earlier this week. 

"Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta is embarrassing. Corporate America should not be in the business of using its influence coercively to prevent state leaders from governing. The American people have the ability to hold their elected officials accountable at the ballot box. But apparently that’s not good enough for Corporate America, which now wants to cancel any group, policy, or individual it disagrees with. This is dangerous and antithetical to the values of freedom of thought and expression that are so vital to our constitutional republic. 

"We also can’t forget that the All-Star Game in Atlanta would have been a huge opportunity for Georgia’s vibrant minority-owned small business community. They’re now left paying the price for the progressive left’s wokeness. 

"Unfortunately, serious misinformation has been spread about the election law in Georgia. While it should be the role of a free press to set the record straight, they’ve instead fed into the frenzy. The election reform bill recently passed in Georgia this week is not ‘Jim Crow in a suit and tie’ as Democrats have tried to make it seem. It doesn’t prohibit family members from dropping off absentee ballots, it doesn’t ban early voting on Sunday, and it doesn’t change Georgia’s Election Day voting hours. Yet the media continues to perpetuate these lies and misinformation. 

"Thankfully, we still do have some freedoms left in this country. Which is why when July 13, 2021, rolls around, I’ll be watching something other than the 2021 MLB All-Star Game."

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