Alfredo Ortiz Courthouse Remarks

Monday Courthouse Remarks – Alfredo Ortiz
Good afternoon. My name is Alfredo Ortiz, and I am the

president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, the nation's
leading conservative small business advocacy organization.
JCN advocates for America's 30 million small business owners
and the tens of millions of people who depend on them.
Major League Baseball catered to activist lies about Georgia's

voting law and in an act of virtue signaling callously retaliated
by moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. This
move deprived local small businesses, which are the backbone
of Atlanta's communities, over $100 million in lost revenues at
a time when they needed it most. The MLB must be held
accountable for their knee-jerk decision that hurt so many
people.
It's important to understand that JCN lost this motion on

standing; MLB didn't win it on the merits. No matter how one
judge rules, the fact that what MLB did was wrong doesn't
change. Our case had strong support from the likes of Former
Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese, The American Constitutional
Rights Union, Rep. Vernon Jones, Congressman Barry
Loudermilk, whose district hosts Truist Park, Former Senators
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and the Georgia State House
and Senate Majority Caucuses.
Sadly, the current Georgia Senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon
Ossoff, are shamelessly silent even though their constituents
have been negatively impacted.
Some in the press and even the courts have said that the MLB
pulling the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver is a zero-sum
game since the game is still being played somewhere just not
in Atlanta. But it is not. In fact, this is no game at all. The real
hopes and dreams of the people in Georgia were shattered
the day Major League Baseball decided to pull the game from
them.
Tell Darrell Anderson, the black owner of a limousine business

in Atlanta, who's spoken of the consequences of losing the All
Star Game for his community, that this is a zero sum game.
Or tell Chris Florence, owner of Atlanta Fastpitch Company,

who scheduled an entire annual competition surrounding the
All-Star Game and is suffering hundreds of thousands of
dollars in lost revenue because of this decision, that it is a
zero-sum game.
Or tell Sandra Cook, owner of Catered Southern Events, who

explains how losing the All-Star Game is a "big blow," that this
is a zero-sum game.
Many of these Atlanta small businesses were preparing for 21
months and counting on this economic infusion to help
overcome the historic losses associated with the Covid-19
pandemic. MLB's decision deprives them of the opportunity to
jump-start their post-pandemic recovery.
MLB's decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to

Denver was based on President Joe Biden and activist Stacey
Abrams' lies that Georgia's voting law is worse than Jim Crow.
This is an insult all citizens of Georgia. The truth is that this
law expands access to the ballot box, while also taking
common-sense steps to protect voting integrity. Georgia's law
makes it easy to vote but hard to cheat. Now, hypocritically
Stacey Abrams supports federal legislation spearheaded by
Sen. Joe Manchin that mirrors many of the same elements in
the Georgia law that were found so offensive, including a
voter ID requirement.
By moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, the MLB

has punished a city with one of the highest black populations
in the country and rewarded a city with one of the lowest.
And the repercussions of the MLB decision may echo well into
the future. Already, Will Smith's latest movie project has
pulled filming from the state, depriving local small businesses
of additional economic opportunities.
MLB's decision to punish these Atlanta small businesses and
residents who bear no responsibility for their state's political
action was wrong -- no matter what one judge says. The Job
Creators Network will continue fighting tirelessly to make it
right.
In the meantime, we have decided to withdraw our lawsuit

against Major League Baseball. But I'm here today to promise
Atlanta-area small businesses that we will continue to find
ways to remedy the injustice inflicted upon them. While we
are withdrawing our case from federal court here in New
York, we will continue to evaluate our legal options and other
out of court opportunities. We will have more information to
announce in the coming days.
Thank you. And now I will take any questions you might have.

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Monday Courthouse Remarks – Alfredo Ortiz

Good afternoon. My name is Alfredo Ortiz, and I am the

Major League Baseball catered to activist lies about Georgia's

It's important to understand that JCN lost this motion on

Tell Darrell Anderson, the black owner of a limousine business

Or tell Chris Florence, owner of Atlanta Fastpitch Company,

Or tell Sandra Cook, owner of Catered Southern Events, who

MLB's decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to

By moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, the MLB

In the meantime, we have decided to withdraw our lawsuit

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