Republican Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the MLB for moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta.
“It is clear the MLB, Stacey Abrams, and the Biden Administration are playing politics at the expense of the citizens of Georgia. We must fight back against this injustice. I support this lawsuit and am proud to stand up for Georgians. It would be nice if Governor Kemp did the same. Sadly, it seems he is never around when the people of Georgia really need him,” Jones said in a statement.
“The MLB’s decision to pull the game out of Cobb County, betrayed that legal process, and caused significant harm to the very people it purportedly sought to support, small and minority businesses, along with their workers and employees,” he added.
The All-Star Game was pulled from Atlanta and moved to Colorado in response to Georgia’s voting integrity bill, which was signed into law in March and attacked by Democrats as “Jim Crow on steroids.”
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Jones, a former Democratic state representative who switched parties during the Trump administration, filed the amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the Job Creators Network earlier this month. The lawsuit demands the MLB pay $100 million in damages for moving the game.
“MLB robbed the small businesses of Atlanta, many of them minority-owned, of $100 million. We want the game back where it belongs,” Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, told Fox Business. “This was a knee-jerk, hypocritical, and illegal reaction to misinformation about Georgia’s new voting law, which includes voter ID.”
Jones is currently running to unseat current Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, and is running as a pro-Trump candidate.
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“President Trump sends his regards to Georgia. I’ve had several meetings with him, talking about the future of our party and the future of our country,” said Jones when announcing his run in April. “Certainly, Georgia has always been on his mind, and I agree and support his agenda of putting America first and putting Georgia first.”
