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Goldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows first-hand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law. 

\u201cWhat [Gov.] Brian Kemp will tell you, what other state GOP office holders will tell you, is that they've done this to restore confidence in the ballot. Poppycock. They have done it to keep people who don't look like them, church like them, live like them, away from the voting booth,\u201d Taylor tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest edition of The New Abnormal.

Taylor knows a lot of her out-of-state friends are outraged, too. But their calls to boycott Georgia over this law? They\u2019re just wrong, she says. 

\u201cSometimes being an ally means shutting up,\u201d Taylor continues. \u201cAs soon as this began to happen, we heard people, especially people in Hollywood say, \u2018Oh, we're going to boycott Georgia until they stop this.\u2019 Right. And both me and Dr. Bernice King stood up and immediately said, \u2018No, you want to put the very people that you aim to help out of work in the middle of a pandemic. You're going to make it so that they can't recover in an effort to pay back a governor who won't feel it.\u2019\u201d 

\u201cSometimes you have to take on a whole state or a whole county or a whole country. I do believe in that,\u201d she added. \u201cIn this case, that's not what the leverage lies. In this case, the leverage lies in the direct contributions, the financial pipeline that greases the pockets of state house Republicans. Dry it up. 

\u201cHow do you dry it up? You target their donors, big corporations: Coca-Cola, UPS, Home Depot, AT&T\u2014all these companies who have huge footprints here in Georgia, who are pouring money into our state house. You put pressure on them specifically. But what you don't do is tell Major League baseball to take a game out of the city, because who gets hurt? The people who are selling the popcorn, who parked the cars. People who scan your tickets. The people who can least likely afford it.\u201d 

Then! Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman discusses why even people on the left need to take Jim Jordan seriously. And Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall talks about why \u201cWashington is a town that is really wired for Republican governance.\u201d

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