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.
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.#gapol https://t.co/F1D0pfizn5
— Chris Carr (@ChrisCarr_Ga) May 23, 2022
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:
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 https://t.co/4CF7JUXLu8 https://t.co/QRwxT0XBvi pic.twitter.com/zdNuOetZFK
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) April 23, 2021
Also from 2021:
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
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) April 7, 2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter Greg Bluestein also weighed in at the time, citing the USA Today op-ed:
Dude. Your own reporting contradicts this. pic.twitter.com/cawnJpt2iO
— Beth Baumann (@eb454) April 7, 2021
Except that she did.
— Shane (@Shane0wens) May 25, 2022
She 100% did.
— Alamo Nation (@Alamo_Nation) May 25, 2022
But she was the direct cause of it. She only changed course slightly when she realized her stance was hurting her.
— Mark (@UncoverFacts) May 25, 2022
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.”
Carry that water, son. Carry it
— Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) May 25, 2022
Correct. She didn't simply support it, she pushed hard for it.
— 💥100 Seconds to Ultra MAGA💥 (@Ann_Kelly007) May 25, 2022
If this is your job, either get better or admit it’s not a fact check… https://t.co/wOaWhLmsu4
— Rick Roth (@Killaroth) May 25, 2022
She pushed for it. Then when they did it, and she realized how much money they were going to lose, she backed off.
— SaneMaryland2 (@SaneMaryland2) May 25, 2022
You do know we were all alive when this happened right? Despite what you report she literally did
— Chris (@chrisanetrini) May 25, 2022
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 https://t.co/bEgLQo0cGx
— what a mess (@controlsman) May 25, 2022
I live here. Yes she did. There is a fact for you.
— K D (@BluetickSmokey1) May 25, 2022
The ratio is strong in this grifter
— Cap’n Brunch™️ (@capnbrunchusa) May 25, 2022
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.
— LittleElvis (@LittleElvis5) May 25, 2022
Eventually, Abrams said she was “disappointed” by MLB’s decision to move the game.
Related:
Biden calls Georgia election law ‘Jim Crow on steroids’ to support MLB moving All-Star game out of the state https://t.co/NGb7GHUpuJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 1, 2021
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