Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who co-owns the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, is calling on the league to drop support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “We need less — not more politics in sports,' she says. The team's players strongly disagree.
Elizabeth Williams has played on the Dream since 2016 and serves on the union's executive committee.
"I think it's ironic for her to make these statements and for her to still want to be associated with the team," Williams said."The only option the Loeffler campaign had" Robinson said Loeffler also had to go on the offensive to win over Georgia's Republican base, because while she is in a free-for-all,"jungle" special election without party primaries, she needs the state's loyal Republican voters in November.
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