Posted on 04/05/2021 10:37:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote a letter asking Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred to “relinquish his personal membership at Georgia’s Augusta National Golf Club” after MLB’s boycott of Georgia over their new voter ID laws.
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Do you know how many hoops you have to jump through to get a personal membership at Augusta National?
Much less be "allowed" to walk the Hallowed Grounds during Masters Week as a normal human?
This is like handing the woke SOB his teeth in a snack Baggie.
I was thinking...
Just tweeted Schlichter about that.
Besides, as a long as the sports books are running, pro-sports will have operating revenue.
About as useful as any of us introducing the same bill right now
And that is a bill that absolutely everyone knows is D.O.A. because the Dems control Congress and the Presidency. It's a completely useless gesture.
Going after the CEO's own conduct is actually a much more clever tactic because it uses their own wokeness against them. Those elitists absolutely love their corporate perks and privileges, and want to be able to call out ordinary people without being challenged themselves.
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on this, and is now asking about Manfred and Augusta. It would be nice to get some conservative media start taking pictures of Manfred, Goodall(NFL), James Quincey (CEO of Coke), Ed Bastian (CEO of Delta), etc.. Start hounding these guys for their hypocrisy, and make it personal. That's the kind of thing that might make some other CEO's think twice about having their corporations go "woke".
Good tactic by Senator Rubio - force Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to answer for his hypocrisy. The next step is to call Rob Manfred out for EVERYTHING that he does that requires valid identification; every corporate board meeting, every entrance into a building with a security desk, every airplane trip, every other country club memberships, Costco membership, etc.
As an aside, one wonders if the good folks on the membership board at Augusta National might just vote the MLB Commissioner off the island anyhoo. (Call it reciprocal virtue signaling.)
I’m sure baseball legal counsel, is reviewing the voter laws in every state. They will relocste the game to a state with no.voter ID, and other lenient standards. If they relocate to a state with voter ID, then Rob Manfred looks like an imbecile.
I agree. I like it too. Start calling them out for their hypocrisy.
Not only did Rubio vote for The Big Steal, he voted to impeach Trump. That scurrilous scumbag should be persona non grata for any sentient person. It sickens me that so many posters on this blog are utterly fatuous and dense as can be to the degree that they continue to post rah rah GOPee bullschitt here and yay yay GOPee bullschitt for every quisling traitor and gutless hypocrite that voted to kill this country on January 6th. It’s painfully obvious that the Marxocrats aren’t the only brain dead azzholes in this benighted land, the perpetual suckers in the GOPee are always there to give them a run for their money. GOPee Delenda Est!
For me, this isn’t really about Rubio as much as it is about a specific tactic for combating “woke” corporate leadership. Rubio could be an absolute scumbag, but that doesn’t mean that this particular idea isn’t a good one.
Take the game to Wyoming!
I like the way this is heading.
What have you been smoking, anyway?
First, Rubio is a Senator, and the Senate does not vote to impeach. The House does. So right off the bat, anyone with a brain knows you're wrong.
Second, even if you meant "voted to convict" rather than "voted to impeach", you'd still be wrong. Seven GOP Senators voted to convict Trump, and none of them were named Marco Rubio.
Rubio may have a ton of flaws, but making up deliberate falsehoods is something we generally see from leftists, not conservatives. And to the extent your error wasn't deliberate, then you very clearly are someone not worth taking seriously because you have no idea what you're talking about.
1967, the song is older than he is...
And many are hypocrites.
We need more of this.
Why are some of us here being so critical of Marco Rubio writing a letter and pointing out the Commissioner’s hypocrisy? What do you want him to do, show up at his home with an armed posse and demand that he cancel his Augusta membership? Maybe he should have called for a 100,000 person march to demand his membership.
Of course he wrote him a letter.
That is the most common way to communicate that leaves a perpetual record.
Some seem to be missing the point that M.R. is actually calling out some leftist on their hypocrisy.
Or maybe they aren’t missing the point but just trying to so dissention here in Freeperland?
“Actually, going after Manfred personally for something like Augusta is a nice tactic”
Agree, more than enough for our side to blast Rubio, but this isn’t one of those times.
Exactly....besides, there in nothing stopping anyone (including Freepers) from protesting the MLB commissioner in person.
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