PolitiFact: No, Stacey Abrams didn’t support pulling the MLB All-Star game out of Atlanta
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/05/25/politifact-no-stacey-abrams-didnt-support-pulling-the-mlb-all-star-game-out-of-atlanta/
As we recall, Stacey Abrams did come out against pulling the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new “voter suppression” law that has proved to be anything but. This, though, was after she learned of the millions of dollars that it would cost black-owned businesses. PolitiFact says Wednesday that Abrams didn’t support MLB’s boycott, despite what Chris Carr, a Republican who is running for a new term as Georgia’s attorney general, tweeted.
Niles Francis (@NilesGApol) ~ "I am tired of being told that we are the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live." - Abrams at Gwinnett Dems dinner #gapol
Well, she's also tired of the frog king farting in bed and holding her head underneath the sheets, too ... but, that's a whole 'nuther story!
Chris Carr (@ChrisCarr_Ga) ~ Our state’s No.1 ranking for business has transformed hundreds of thousands of Georgians’ lives.
Just like when she supported the #MLB boycott, Stacey Abrams’ reckless & condescending comments continue to harm the state she claims to want to govern.
Fact-checker Louis Jacobson says “if your time is short”:
Both before and after the league decided to move the All-Star Game away from Atlanta, Abrams threw cold water on the notion of a boycott — in a Twitter video, in comments to the leading newspaper in Atlanta, and in an op-ed in USA Today.
Oh yeah, we remember that op-ed in USA Today ... Fox News reported on it, saying, “USA Today appeared to have bizarrely allowed retroactive edits of an op-ed written by prominent Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams in an effort to water down her previous justification for boycotts after MLB moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta.”
Here’s CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale telling the same story back in 2021:
Daniel Dale (@ddale8 ) ~ Tom Cotton said Stacey Abrams “conveniently” started claiming, after MLB moved its All-Star Game, that she hadn’t wanted that. Except ... MLB officials confirm she privately urged them not to do it. And she made multiple public anti-boycott statements too:
http://cnn.com/2021/04/23/politics/fact-check-tom-cotton-stacey-abrams-boycott-georgia-baseball-all-star/index.html
2:30 PM · Apr 23, 2021
Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) ~ The op-ed Dale and others cite defending Abrams was heavily edited from its original version AFTER the MLB decided to move the All Star game.
Paragraph on the left is before, paragraph on the right is AFTER. Clear attempt to cover tracks.
Archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20210331210632if_/https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/31/voter-suppression-will-corporations-redeem-themselves-column/4820354001/
Also from 2021:
Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) ~ SCOOP: @MLB sources say owners were blindsided at least by the timing of @RobManfred's decision to pull the All-Star game from Atlanta. Also said his decision came after speaking w @staceyabrams, which is odd since she has now said she's against the boycott. Story developing.
12:15 PM · Apr 7, 2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter Greg Bluestein also weighed in at the time, citing the USA Today op-ed:
Beth Baumann (@eb454) ~ Dude. Your own reporting contradicts this.
5:17 PM · Apr 7, 2021
Shane (@Shane0wens) ~ Except that she did.
Alamo Nation (@Alamo_Nation) ~ She 100% did.
Mark (@UncoverFacts) ~ But she was the direct cause of it. She only changed course slightly when she realized her stance was hurting her.
Jen Psaki also tried to distance President Joe Biden from the decision to move the game after he’d called the new law “Jim Crow on steroids.”
Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) ~ Carry that water, son. Carry it.
100 Seconds to Ultra MAGA (@Ann_Kelly007) ~ Correct. She didn't simply support it, she pushed hard for it.
Rick Roth (@Killaroth) ~ If this is your job, either get better or admit it’s not a fact check ...
SaneMaryland2 (@SaneMaryland2) ~ She pushed for it. Then when they did it, and she realized how much money they were going to lose, she backed off.
Chris (@chrisanetrini) ~ You do know we were all alive when this happened right? Despite what you report, she literally did.
what a mess (@controlsman) ~ Here you go DA. Prior to 3/31/21 she encouraged business to pull from GA. Once they did and backlash occurred, she changed her position.
Fact check: False
http://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott-georgia-democrats-new-question-after-sb-202/JGZOWLQCTRCBBLVWK36HZFCT4A/
K D (@BluetickSmokey1) ~ I live here. Yes she did. There is a fact for you.
LittleElvis (@LittleElvis5) ~ She was for it before she was against it. She also has never admitted she lost the election, which according to the left is treasonous.
Eventually, Abrams said she was “disappointed” by MLB’s decision to move the game.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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