Lt. Gov. Casey Cagel, Ya'll.

If I have had one standing criticism of the government of the Great State of Georgia, it has been the degree to which it has bent over backwards to give away the rights of citizens in favor of corporate interests. On gun rights, on religious liberty, as on many other issues, once you knew what side Coca-Cola and Delta wanted to win, you knew what the Republican government would do -- no matter what their voters wanted, and no matter which constitutional right was being undermined by the action.

Not today.

Casey Cagel for Governor.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:21 PM

    Et tu brute?

    Really?
    A Republican?
    You crossed the aisle.....

    - Mississippi

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  2. raven6:26 PM

    Wow. Outside of personnel, fuel is the largest expense for airlines- this is big.

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  3. Grim7:12 PM

    He may be a Republican, but he sure isn't acting like any one I've seen recently. We could use more of whatever he happens to be.

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  4. Texan9910:28 PM

    Cool.

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  5. Tom11:21 PM

    Not sure I like government punishing a company for a political statement.

    On the other hand, Col. Schlichter is all in on it.

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  6. Grim11:25 PM

    Delta's not entitled to a special tax break. If it's punishment to deny them one, it's not a bad punishment: 'I won't buy you ice cream if you don't stop X' is much less of a punishment than 'I will take away your X if you don't Y.' I am not, after all, obliged to buy you ice cream.

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  7. Tom1:09 AM

    True

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  8. Texan9911:36 AM

    FedEx refuses to boot the NRA. https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/26/fedex-keeping-nra-discount-program-place-tyvm/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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  9. MikeD2:25 PM

    I really get itchy when people want the government to force any business to take a political side. It's a bad idea. Force all businesses to be viewpoint neutral? Maybe. You've got a better argument with that premise. But is Delta refusing to transport members of the NRA? No, they're just not offering discounts. As you say in a thread above, that's not really "punishing them". It's merely not offering a benefit. And while the same can be said of fuel discounts, I still don't really like the government interfering in what is, essentially, and intra-business dispute over rewards programs.

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  10. Anonymous9:01 PM

    1. Delta decided - all on their own - to inject politics into their daily business.
    2. If you decide to dabble in politics, don't be surprized if the politicians take notice.
    3. I'm not going to cry for Delta.

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