Texas governor protests MLB moving All-Star Game from Atlanta
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday that he won't throw out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers' home opening game or participate in Major League Baseball at all after the MLB moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to a law changing the way people vote in Georgia.
The league announced Friday that it would be moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta after Georgia passed a new law requiring photo ID to vote via absentee ballot, among other things. Republicans, including former President Trump, have decried the move. "I was looking forward to throwing out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers' home opening game until @MLB adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about Georgia's election law reforms," Abbott tweeted Monday afternoon, along with the letter he sent the Rangers. "It is shameful that America's pastime is being influenced by partisan politics."
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