California Senate Leader Asks Dodgers to Drop Oil, Gas Sponsorships
California Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) wants the team to drop Phillips 66.
California Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) asked Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter to drop sponsorships from oil and gas companies.
“The state of California is currently suing five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world for decades of misleading the public about climate change,” wrote Gonzalez. “This lawsuit includes Philips 66, owner of the 76 brand of gas stations. As a State, we are leading the way in climate action and decarbonizing our economy. Yet, Big Oil continues to engage in climate denial and just last year spent a record amount lobbying the State Legislature against common-sense public health measures.”
EHRMEHGERD BIG OIL. *eye roll*
Gonzalez wrote the letter after climate activist Zan Dubin, who started the charge against the Dodgers, praised her “for showing ‘true leadership and unflinching courage as the first elected official to endorse our campaign.'”
Tug at those heart strings, Gonzalez:
The recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles are focusing attention on a reality that my constituents have known for decades: that fossil fuel pollution is responsible for not only the climate crisis, but also the persistently harmful air quality in the region. Residents of the Los Angeles area breathe some of the most polluted air in the country, with demonstrated links to negative health outcomes. Continuing to associate these corporations with our beloved boys in blue is not in our community or the planet best interest.
Therefore, the Dodgers should end its sponsorship with Phillips 66 because it would “send the message that it’s time to end our embrace of polluting fossil fuels and work together towards a cleaner, greener future.”
Gonzalez told The Los Angeles Times she hopes Dodgers players like Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman will oppose fossil fuel advertisements.
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Sports promoters line up outside Phillips HQ tomorrow morning with their rice bowls and Powerpoint pitches.
Is the state senator prepared to replace the income? Of course not, Communists never want to pay for anything.
Move out of LA, Dodgers (but not back to Brooklyn) before it’s too late
One time they made stamps with the Dodgers logo, but they had to stop.
People were getting confused which side to spit on.
The Greater LA area with be thousands of “15 minute cities” … all ghettos.
“Union 76” and the Dodgers go back to when it was Union Oil Company, and not several name-changes into Philips.
With all of California’s problems, leave it to a Democrat to come up with this as an important issue.
I’m so old I remember in the early 6os when the Dodgers handed out little orange Union 76 balls to go on your car antenna.
I recall those as well, along with the craze of curling the wire of a plastic flower around your car’s antenna. Mom’s car sported a blue delphinium.
The oil companies don’t get any benefit from the sponsorships, it won’t affect them at all to stop the sponsorships. It will be the sports teams that will suffer.
The oil companies should create a commercial that announces that they are reluctantly withdrawing sponsorships at the request of the Democratic Party,
If Dodgers players decide not to stay in their lane and endorse “fossil fuel caused climate change”, let them do so as *former* players. They are sports figures, not politicians. (At least, they should make up their minds.)
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I’m trying out new location names for the Dodgers move very soon….Gotta be off the West Coast. Utah Dodgers or maybe…I’m running out of places.
If they moved to Texas, they could be the Ding Dong Dodgers.
Another progressive on the right side of history.
Seems to me, that the Arc of History™️ bends towards stupidity with these progressives.
…or else
Indeed. There is a boring predictability to the Communist playbook.
If the Dodgers balk (pun intended) at dropping Philips 66 sponsorship the next step will be vandalism and disruption of public events at the ballpark. If that does not work, it will escalate into harassment by local and state authorities. After that arson, bomb threats, and death threats.
They already have post-game knifings and shootings in the parking lot, all over “our” team vs “their” team.
The only thing the leadership of Crazyfornia is doing is leading their state into insolvency and dissolution. Yes they will have the least carbon footprint, you will also be able to film Mad Max movies there without hiring any extras.
Their silicon footprint will be godawful.
Why aren’t the Dodgers on the list of domestic terrorist organizations? C’mom man!
If they lose Phillips 66′ sponsorship, who will pay for Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence appearances at Dodger games?