Denver, not Milwaukee, lands All-Star Game. By Jeramey Jannene - Apr 5th, 2021 09:29 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Mayor Tom Barrett at a voter registration rally at Miller Park. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Milwaukee struck out on landing the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, at least in 2021.
Mayor
Tom Barrett publicly courted the event with an open letter to MLB Commissioner
Rob Manfred. The commissioner announced Friday the league was moving the game away from Atlanta after Republican officials in Georgia instituted controversial voting rights restrictions, including banning the distribution of water to people waiting in line.
But the game is going to Denver, not Milwaukee.
With All-Star Game pulled out of Georgia over voting law, Rep. Jayapal suggests Seattle step in
Seattle s T-Mobile Park. (Getty Images)
Last week, Major League Baseball announced that it would no longer be holding its annual All-Star Game in Atlanta, in response to a controversial voting bill passed by the Georgia General Assembly, and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. With the location of the game now up in the air, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal thinks Seattle may be the perfect alternative.
The law reduces the window Georgia voters can request ballots by mail, enacts stringent ID requirements for mail-in voting, limits the number of ballot drop boxes permitted during early voting periods, affords more power to state lawmakers over county and local elections, and bans people from handing out food or water to voters in line within 150 feet of polling places.
Some of the states looking to host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, after it was pulled from Atlanta over a recently-passed Georgia election reform law, have some of the same voting.
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Major League Baseball recently pulled its All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia s new voter-suppression law. The exhibition will instead be played this year in Denver.
And that, evidently, gave some Republicans an idea for a new talking point. At a briefing today, for example, Fox News White House correspondent asked: Is the White House concerned that Major League Baseball is moving its All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar to Georgia?
The premise of the question was, of course, false, but this is clearly the line of the day in GOP circles.
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