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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHollywood (liberals) need to pull out of GA, now!
Hollywood provides around $3-billion a year in direct spending to the state of GA, with an economic impact of $9.5-billion a year.
Well, money talks and bullshit walks. Time for Hollywood film companies - you know, them libruls - to take their business elsewhere. Plenty of states in the Union who would be happy to have the biz and who do not attack womens rights.
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)but, damn. It is the right thing to do!
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)take away womens rights.
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)If you have cable or satellite service that allows you to drop the network, yes, but most don't.
That is why the studios need to boycott shooting there. Otherwise it is meaningless.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)proceeds from their work to abortion funds in the state.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)economic impact to the state, that $9.5-billion a year. Thats money spent at mom-n-pop eateries, hotels, etc. Time to hurt the people economically who vote in these knuckle-dragging Christian Rs who seek to impose their make-believe religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Move the film production out of the state and you hurt all of those businesses that benefit from Hollywood spending.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)I seem to recall it had to do with marriage equality, but I could be wrong. All the touring artists and shows cancelled dates in that location. That's not too big of an economic hit for artists to take.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)And let the women hater, forced birthers know why!
DFW
(54,436 posts)Ever since Burt Reynolds started filming his popular southern films there (Gator, Smokey, Deliverance etc.), Georgia became a popular and affordable mecca for many Hollywood studios. Over the last 40+ years, they have built up a film industry there that can't just pull up and leave overnight, taking the infrastructure and topography with them.
But they could start, and slowly turn down the scale of their activities there--enough for the state to start losing tens of millions in tax revenue. Nothing else would work. But money talks loudly in southern states, especially ones with little else to offer, and the big European car manufacturers are in South Carolina and (so far) Alabama.
The Germans (Mercedes) are super-heavily invested in Alabama, and they won't leave from one day to the next over the new anti-abortion law. But German women get pregnant, too, and won't want to have to fly home every time an unwanted pregnancy should occur among their community. Stuttgart will begin to feel the pressure soon enough here in Europe, and new investments in Alabama will crawl to a standstill. I am betting Merkel herself will have words with them. If she has the guts to pull Germany off the nuclear power grid after Fukushima, she definitely has the guts to call in the board of directors of Mercedes about staying and expanding in Alabama.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Pretty good ROI for GA when it generates an economic impact of $9.5-billion.
JAD
(187 posts)Here are the top businesses with corporate offices in Georgia.
The Home Depot
UPS
Randstad USA
The Coca-Cola Company
Hansen Beverage
Delta
Cox Enterprises
Georgia-Pacific
Genuine Parts
WestRock
Here are the rest-
https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-companies-in-georgia/
Send an email to these corporate offices and say you will not buy their products. Two to three sentences is all you need write.