MLB All-Star Game move is costing Georgia $100M, says Job Creators Network
WASHINGTON (SBG) - The Job Creators Network is calling out the MLB commissioner for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s voting bill - with a billboard right in the middle of New York’s Times Square.
“What we're really trying to do is make sure that that game gets moved back to Atlanta because it was moved out, really for absolutely no reason at all. It was based on misinformation and lies that were perpetuated by not only the President of the United States but also by Stacey Abrams and others,” said Job Creators Network’s Alfredo Ortiz to The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat. “As quickly as he moved it out of Atlanta, we're asking that he moves it back.”
Ortiz and the Job Creators Network say pulling the game from Atlanta cost the state $100 million, hurting mostly minority-owned small businesses.
“There are nine times as many black small business owners for example in Atlanta than there are in Denver, but supposedly that's the very group that they're trying to help here,” said Ortiz. “$100 million of lost business is just unbelievable.”
Last week on The National Desk, Ortiz categorized Biden’s first 100 days in office as a “war on small businesses,” in particular the extended unemployment benefits from the last COVID relief bill.
“People are making more money sitting at home than working and so we have got to cut these disincentives to work,” said Ortiz. “We need to do everything we can to think of programs that are going to help small businesses, not things like raising the minimum wage to $15 on a federally mandated basis, that's just going to hurt small businesses across the country.”
Contributing to the labor shortage, Ortiz says, is the delay in returning kids to school.
“That’s keeping a lot of people still back home because they’ve got to take care of the kids,” said Ortiz. “This is unbelievable and that is also really hurting many of our small businesses.”
