redstate.com By Jerry Wilson
With the Nevada state legislature set to reconvene in special session on June 12 to consider SB1, which would provide up to $380M in taxpayer dollars to assist the Oakland A’s in moving to Las Vegas, it is time to note that the expression “politics makes strange bedfellows,” coined by 19th Century American novelist Charles Dudley Warner, may well spring to life in the very near future. Congressperson Barbara Lee, whose district includes Oakland and who embodied The Squad while they were still in literal diapers, and the conservative’s conservative Senator Ted Cruz are two of the more unlikely politicians to agree on what color the sky is today, let alone anything policy-related. Nevertheless, both have reached the same conclusion, albeit for different reasons. Namely, in light of Major League Baseball’s recent actions, its antitrust status, enabled via a 1922 Supreme Court decision, needs to be severely modified if not disposed of altogether. Said actions include moving the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta in a knee-jerk reaction to Georgia’s voting rights law passed that year and the current effort to move the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas.
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