Posted on 01/14/2021 10:23:25 AM PST by rktman
Major League Baseball (MLB) has decided to suspend all political donations in the wake of last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol, the Associated Press reports.
The move comes as several corporations have suspended contributions who voted to decertify the elections.
“In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol, MLB is suspending contributions from its Political Action Committee pending a review of our political contribution policy going forward,” the league told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Other major U.S. sports leagues could soon follow suit. The National Football League announced that it is evaluating its political contributions, but has not yet committed to stopping or suspending them.
“We are re-evaluating our political giving policies through the Gridiron PAC,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the AP.
Unlike other corporations that only suspended contributions to politicians who voted to decertify, MLB suspended contributions to members of both political parties.
“The Office of The Commissioner of Major League Baseball Political Action Committee has donated $669,375 to Senate and House candidates since the 2016 election cycle, with 52.4% of that money going to Republican candidates, according to The Center for Responsive Politics,” the AP reported.
Since 2016, MLB has donated to two senators and nine House members who voted to decertify.
“The Senate Republicans are Ted Cruz (Texas) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi), and the House Republicans are Roger Williams (Texas), Kevin McCarthy (California), David Schweikert (Arizona), Steve Chabot (Ohio), Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma), Adrian Smith (Nebraska), Michael Burgess (Texas), Rick Crawford (Arkansas) and Elise Stefanik (New York),” the AP reports.
Major League Baseball is set to being Spring Training on February 27.
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Baseball was my only watched sport. After they went all BLM etc last year I stopped watching.
BLM is a political org.
No more watching until they stop donating to them, ACLU, SPLC, Tides Foundation, etc.
The dirty secret is that companies donating to politicians is a protection racket. Hillary was a master at this. She would criticize some industry until they handed over big, sweaty wads of campaign cash, then she would shut up. If you don’t donate to these sleazy crooks, they target your business. People complain about lobbyists, but they are there both to buy influence and protection. DC is worse than the mafia because it has more power.
$blm learned these lessons well.
I have no issues with companies pausing all donations. I do have issues with any who are singling out those objecting to a corrupted election. That’s actually part of their actual job description by design.
Everyone seems to be lining up
Used to be a big MLB fan. Ended last year when MLB became BLM. All sports are joined at the hip with the wokesters.
My tagline.
Good. Maybe that will end taxpayer funded playpens for the overgrown little boys.
MLB is BLM spelled backwards.
the perpetually outraged kneeling nancies are outraged? Say it aint so
I have no problem with MLB suspending donations to both parties.
However, I predict, when they do start donations again, they'll not donate to the decertifiers.
That actually is the only intelligent thing they have done in the last few years. Why do they feel it is necessary to contribute to low life politicians? Political Bribery?
That MLB makes political donations in the first place is indicative of a broken culture.
Stop patronizing folks
“In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol, MLB is suspending contributions from its Political Action Committee pending a review of our political contribution policy going forward,” the league told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Ruh, roh. China’s going to have to step up and fill the gap.
How is watching a sporting event patronizing? It’s entertainment until it’s offensive to me, then it’s gone.
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