Major League Baseball is facing a lawsuit as a result of its decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta, Georgia, in response to the state’s newly implemented election integrity law.
The Job Creators Network, which has more than 30 partners, including the Nevada Chamber of Commerce and National Restaurant Association, filed a lawsuit in New York City federal court Tuesday morning, demanding Major League baseball pay $100 million in damages for moving the game.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and the Major League Baseball Players Union are also named in the suit.
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The $100 million figure aligns with revenue estimates of what local businesses in the Atlanta area will lose out on now that the game has been moved to Denver, Colorado.
“MLB robbed the small businesses of Atlanta – many of them minority-owned – of $100 million. We want the game back where it belongs,” Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, told FOX Business, “This was a knee-jerk, hypocritical and illegal reaction to misinformation about Georgia’s new voting law which includes voter ID.”
The game was moved out of Atlanta in April after Georgia enacted a law that tightened certain voting requirements while extending early voting, which Democrats, including former president Barack Obama and President Joe Biden, publicly deemed as discriminatory toward minorities.
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Prominent Republicans rejected claims of discrimination and pointed out that Biden received “Four Pinocchios” from a Washington Post fact check for his criticism of the legislation.
Ortiz also dismissed accusations of discrimination, saying that Major League Baseball made a “knee jerk” reaction and is hypocritical for criticizing the law while also requiring fans to show a photo ID to pick up tickets at will call.
