Patagonia Donates $1 Million to Georgia Voting Rights

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Patagonia Donates $1 Million to Georgia Voting Rights

CEO Ryan Gellert says staying silent is “tantamount to supporting unjust laws”

www.outsideonline.com

Patagonia just announced a $1 million donation to be split equally between the Black Votes Matter Fund and the New Georgia Project, two organizations fighting an anti-voting law in Georgia. The company’s new CEO, Ryan Gellert, is calling on other business leaders to follow suit and express support for voting-rights laws currently making their way through Congress.

“On March 25, Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed a new, restrictive voting-access law that limits early and absentee voting and ballot drop-box locations; piles on rigid voter ID requirements; and gives people in power the ability to challenge election results they don’t like,” said an emailed statement from Patagonia. “Governor Kemp claims the new law will shore up faith in the election system, but in reality, it will only make it harder for Georgians of all racial, socioeconomic, and political stripes—especially Black voters—to elect their representatives.”

It looks like Kemp's and McConnell's threats are quelling the corporate backlash against voter disenfranchisement in Georgia.

 

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Good. 70% of us are past this Bullshit. The other 30% want it to be 1953 before Brown v. Board of Education, and they need to be removed from society - and their laws cast aside.