16: The Right Side of History
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens to discuss the latest regarding the Georgia General Assembly’s proposed voter suppression legislation and the responsibility of large corporations, like Coca Cola, to oppose it. The panel then opens up the discussion of corporate responsibility to the national level by continuing the conversation about how companies like AT&T, Cigna, and Intel, have broken their pledge to not financially support members of Congress who voted to decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election. Plus, a brief history of the GOP's relationship with absentee ballots and mail-in voting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gale. Today I'm joined by my fellow |
| 0:13.5 | co-founder, host of LPTB's The Breakdown, an author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, Rick |
| 0:19.0 | Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining me. Hey Reed, good to be here. Also on board today is |
| 0:23.3 | Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, an author of It Was All Alive, Stuart Stevens. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome back. Great to be here. Thanks for inviting me. So today we're going to continue our |
| 0:32.6 | conversation about corporate responsibility, especially companies who have broken their pledge |
| 0:37.1 | to not financially support members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential |
| 0:42.1 | election results back on January 6th. But before we get to that, I want to talk about what's |
| 0:46.5 | going on down in Georgia and the General Assembly's continuing efforts to revive Jim Crow. And so, Rick |
| 0:53.0 | and Stuart, I want to open the conversation with just a quick rundown of what it is, the current |
| 0:57.2 | legislation would do if passed. Impose identification requirements for absentee voting. Limit the use |
| 1:03.8 | of ballot drop boxes. Disqualify most provisional ballots cast outside voters home precincts. And |
| 1:09.7 | make it a misdemeanor to provide food or soft drinks to voters as they wait in line. And Georgia |
| 1:14.4 | lawmakers are hoping to finalize this by next week March 31st when the General Assembly will adjourn. |
| 1:19.4 | And so, Stu, I think that there's a retrospective piece of this and there's a prospective piece of |
| 1:24.7 | this. Obviously, I think Republicans in Georgia are very upset that not only Joe Biden won the |
| 1:29.8 | presidential race in November of last year, but then subsequently, John Ausef and Rafael Warnoch won |
| 1:35.8 | the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff against two incumbent Republicans. That seems to be one of the driving |
| 1:41.8 | forces. And the next is, as we've said before, the party in Georgia and elsewhere seems to have a |
| 1:46.5 | ban in the marketplace of ideas. So they're just trying to make it harder for folks who disagree |
| 1:50.6 | with them to actually cast a vote. Yeah, look, I mean, any time you have major election laws being |
| 1:57.0 | passed and you ask yourself, would these laws be in play if one party won? And the answer is no, |
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