This interesting article in CNBC highlighting that corporations are under pressure to oppose Georgia’s ballot restrictions is written Hannah Miao:
Civil rights and activist groups are turning up the pressure on large Georgia companies like Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines to oppose sweeping voting restrictions proposed by Republican state legislators.
“We’ve got the power of organized people. They’ve got the power of organized money. And between us and them, we could put pressure on these legislators or, worst case scenario, the governor to kill these bills,” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told CNBC.
Groups including Black Voters Matter, the New Georgia Project Action Fund and the Georgia NAACP on Friday launched the next phase of their campaign in local press and on social media asking supporters to directly contact CEOs, presidents and headquarters of major Georgia-based corporations. They’re urging them to speak out publicly against the proposed voting restrictions and to stop donating money to the Republican legislators sponsoring the bills.
Read the full article here. In case you missed it, also read this recent interesting money politics article on how Seattle residents are being motivated to vote through democracy vouchers. Fairly quite the opposite of what Georgia Republicans are doing.
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