Ga. Business Leader: Biden’s Boycott Hurting Small Business Owners, ‘Desperately Needed’ All-Star Game

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ORTIZ: "Yeah. It absolutely does. You know, and, Ainsley, you know, representing small business owners across the country and especially here in Georgia, of course, they are barely making it out of the Covid-19 crisis out of this pandemic and now they are faced under the Biden administration with potentially higher taxes, a higher minimum wage, more red tape and regulations and now this. I mean, this was an opportunity that my understanding and I’m glad you had the commissioner on as well is goings to cost upwards of $100 million of economic damages and impact to the state. These small business owners especially in Cobb, I mean, a lot of these are minority owned businesses that are really looking forward and desperately needed this kind of revenue instream. And all because quite frankly there was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding or quite frankly just an outright lie of a law that was passed here in Georgia on voting right. And the bottom line is that law it just makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. And now we have CEOs that quite frankly are taking that and perpetuating these myths or lies quite frankly that -- that led to the pull out of the MLB. And we are very disappointed and very saddened because you know, I expect that out of politicians and political talking heads and operatives like Joe Biden or Stacey Abrams but I just don't expect that out of our CEOs and corporations that I think should be held to a higher standard and need to be held accountable because they owe it to the public to speak to the truth."