US Senator and WNBA team co-owner Kelly Loeffler slams the league's decision to honor the BLM movement as top players push for her removal US Senator and WNBA team co-owner Kelly Loeffler has criticized the decision to honor the Black Lives Matter movement by wearing 'Say Her Name' warmups In a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Loeffler, a Republican, called on the league to mandate that an American flag be placed on all team apparel Loeffler also recently referred to armed black protestors in Atlanta as 'mob rule' The 49-year-old Loeffler, who is facing a special election in November, has owned the Atlanta Dream since 2011 and is a junior US senator from Georgia Retired WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes tweeted: 'The WNBA must do better' Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm wrote that she's asking 'herself the same question' when Alysha Clark asked why Loeffler was still a WNBA team owner Atlanta Dream guard Renee Montgomery called out Loeffler for defending the second amendment rights of white citizens, but not African Americans https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8499233/Players-push-Dream-oust-owner-Loeffler.html
US Senator and WNBA team co-owner Kelly Loeffler has criticized the league's decision to honor the Black Lives Matter movement after previously drawing the ire of players by referring to armed African-American protestors in Atlanta as 'mob rule.' Several prominent players, including Sue Bird and retired star Sheryl Swoopes, were already calling for Loeffler's removal before her latest attack on the BLM movement. In a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Loeffler warned against allowing players to wear warmup jerseys reading 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Say Her Name,' instead calling on the league to mandate that an American flag be placed on all team apparel.
Loeffler's trying to see whether stoking the culture war still works to win elections for Republicans in Georgia. It'll be interesting to see--she's in a tough race.
“The truth is, we need less — not more politics in sports. In a time when polarizing politics is as divisive as ever, sports has the power to be a unifying antidote. And now more than ever, we should be united in our goal to remove politics from sports.” - Kelly Loeffler So why is a Senator an WNBA owner then and why is she using political power to try to get the league to mandate US flags be put on all jerseys?
Problem is, she has a shitload of money and she floods TV in the state daily with seemingly endless ads...but money is about the only thing she has going for her.
I could have told you that Georgia is fucked up. Kelly Loeffler being from Georgia is also fucked up. Okay, there are good people in Georgia, I point to my young great niece going to college in Georgia, Emory, and to our friend, yankeesince59.
Thanx Lanny. And to all the "fucked up" people who say that I am "fucked up", well, sorry, but anyone who labels me as "fucked up", ...are evidently completely "fucked up".
Maybe she can offer free stock market advice for the players. I understand she has a great instinct on when to dump and when to buy certain stocks.
You clearly misinterpreted her words. When she says sports shouldn't be politicized she means they shouldn't be allowed to have the views of democrats.
