Congress Should Subpoena MLB’s Rob Manfred To Admit All-Star Georgia Boycott Was A Partisan Pretense

This week, four words are used to signal the unofficial beginning of spring. “Pitchers and catchers report.” With the Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives, however, it is important that they are accompanied by four words this year: “Gentlemen, start your subpoenas.”

Catchers and pitchers will be heading southward during the last week of this week. Training camp opens For each of the 30 Major League Baseball club. (The rest of the teams’ rosters will report early next week.) But after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred sided with partisan Democrats and moved the 2021 All-Star Game away from Atlanta over Georgia’s voting law, Republican lawmakers should ensure that he will spend March 30 — baseball’s Opening Day — testifying before them about his actions two years ago.

Manfred Buckled Under Political Pressure

Manfred announced in the opening week 2021 baseball season that MLB was moving the All-Star Game from Georgia to the Professional Draft. This was due to the new voting law Georgia had just passed. Biden was the day before this announcement. He “strongly supported” The Midsummer Classic was voted over the law by the man he called “Jim Crow on steroids.”

The article on MLB’s website discussing the decision to move the game specifically quoted Biden’s statements attacking the Georgia law, along with praise from athletes like LeBron James and Magic Johnson (part owners of MLB clubs). It didn’t include statements by supporters of the Georgia measure. It also claimed that there was no evidence to support the Georgia measure. “law includes a number of elements that will make it harder to vote.”

However, very few of these supposed effects were ever observed.

Both in Georgia and in other countries, early voting participation has exceeded that of previous elections. 2022 midterm election And in the Next Senate runoff. According to a University of Georgia poll Voters of all races were satisfied with the voting process. They cited low wait times, ease of voting, and high satisfaction. 72.5 percent of African Americans polled said that the law had made their lives easier. “no difference” Nearly three times as many African Americans cast a vote based on their method of casting a ballot. It is now easier to vote (19.1%%) than that it is harder to vote (6.9%). Unpopular Georgia law provision that increased state oversight of county elections boards actually made it easier to vote. Accelerate voter improvements Fulton County: This prompted a previously unorganized county office in Fulton County to organize itself without the need of a state takeover.

Georgia’s voting law represents but the latest instance where a law that the radical left claims will prompt Armageddon turns into a veritable nothingburger. But conservatives in Congress shouldn’t allow the individuals and groups who demonized Georgia officials over the voting law to let the left’s incendiary rhetoric escape down the memory hole.

MLB Testify

That’s where the House Republican takeover, and with it the power to summon witnesses, comes in handy. Manfred should be subpoenaed by lawmakers on March 30, so that he can appear at

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