Georgia state Senate passes resolution condemning NFL

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Georgia state Senate passes resolution condemning NFL

The Georgia state Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday condemning the NFL and its decision to turn down an ad from a veterans group.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the resolution, sponsored by state Sen. David Shafer (R), condemns the NFL for not allowing the group, AMVETS, to purchase an ad in the printed Super Bowl program that targeted players who kneel during the national anthem.

The ad depicts three service members holding the American flag next to the text "#PleaseStand.”

“When America’s veterans try to exercise their free speech, the NFL has no problem telling them to sit down and shut up,” Shafer, who is running for Georgia lieutenant governor, said.



The resolution calls the league’s rejection of the ad "pious and self-serving." It also accuses the NFL of abandoning “even the pretense of supporting free speech and dissent” while allowing “organized disrespect and contempt for the Flag of the United States and the National Anthem.”

It comes one year before the state will host the Super Bowl at the newly-constructed Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

They should have passed a resolution condemning the Falcons :Camnewtongrin:


@AVXL :youmadcam:

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

fukk that kowtowing to their racist cac voter base.

 

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fukk that kowtowing to their racist cac voter base.

Cacs love playing the victim

 

[SpursFanSinceNovember2017]

sponsored by state Sen. David Shafer (R)

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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff during his time as secretary of state, decried John Sununu’s comment that Powell only endorsed Barack Obama because they are both black. “To say that Colin Powell would endorse President Obama because of his skin color is like saying Mother Teresa worked for profit,” Wilkerson told Ed Schultz.

Wilkerson said on The Ed Show that though he respects Sununu, a top Romney adviser and surrogate, “I don’t have any respect for the integrity of the position that he seemed to codify. Look at me, Ed, I’m white. I’m not black. Colin Powell picked me because of the content of my character and my competence.”

He added that he thinks Sununu’s remark was an “unfortunate slip of words,” but that it speaks to larger problem in the Republican party.

“My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people, not all of them, but most of them, who are still basing their decision on race,” Wilkerson said. “Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that’s despicable.”

 

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I bet they will all be involved with the Super Bowl next year.

If they were serious they'd tell the NFL to kick rocks.

 

[ryderldb]

So the NFL doesn’t have the same free speech and right to say no to the ad? I can’t stand these cacs sometimes

 

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Georgia state Senate passes resolution condemning NFL




They should have passed a resolution condemning the Falcons :Camnewtongrin:


@AVXL :youmadcam:

NFC South beef.

 

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NFC South beef.

There's no off-season :JBWOWPounding:

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

these cacs really expecting the nfl to take an ad criticizing its players l

 

[GunRanger]

Nfl should move the super bowl

 

[InvictusAeternusEternus]

Nfl should move the super bowl

Them cacs would for real.




Do it Roger