Bridgestone Golf is staying put in Georgia despite new voting law
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Even as large corporations like Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines publicly decry Georgia's new voting laws, a major sports equipment company is reaffirming its ties to the Peach State.
Bridgestone Golf has no plans to relocate elsewhere, CEO Dan Murphy said this week. His comment comes a day before the 2021 Masters golf tournament kicked off at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta. Bridgestone Golf, which makes golf balls and golf clubs, has been based in Covington, Georgia, for more than 30 years.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.