Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order Tuesday that directs the city's chief equity officer to implement "a series of actions to mitigate the impact" of Georgia's new election law imposing a series of voting restrictions.
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President Joe Biden and a raft of CEOs have formed an uneasy alliance against Republican-controlled states reforming their election laws in ways Democrats and some corporations claim restrict voter access.
The White House has distanced Biden from Major League Baseball s decision to move its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in protest of Georgia s new election law, joining businesses such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola in condemning the state s changes.
But with corporate leaders meeting over Zoom last weekend to discuss how to undermine similar legislative efforts in states such as Arizona, Florida, and Texas, the Biden administration may not be able to avoid being drawn into the escalating situation for much longer.
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OPINION
By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
If the late Martin Luther King Jr. were to hold the Montgomery bus boycott today, would conservative politicians call him a “woke” activist pushing a repressive “cancel culture”?
That thought came to mind after Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders denounced woke Democrats and cancel culture over Major League Baseball’s decision to move their 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest the Peach State’s new restraints on voting access.
Cancel culture, in case you’ve been quarantined on the moon for the past few years, refers to cultural and economic boycotts and general shunning and shaming of people or institutions over their political views or actions. Initiated by the political and social left, the term has been embraced, like “political correctness,” by the right as a cudgel against the left.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during a press conference (Image: Twitter/The Hill)
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order Tuesday directing the city’s chief equity officer to implement “a series of actions to mitigate the impact of the state’s election bill.
Since Lance Bottoms does not have the authority to impact state election laws, her executive order will not change any of the new requirements in the bill.
The orders are mostly focused on voter education and staff training through her office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). The DEI office will work to assist residents with information on the new voting laws and how to obtain the necessary identification to vote.