Will Amazon cross Georgia off their list after the Delta vote?

ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) – Did Georgia just shoot their chance to land the biggest corporate deal out there right now?

Governor Nathan Deal on Friday signed the new tax reform bill into law.

On Thursday, both houses approved the bill, after dropping a fuel tax exemption for Delta.

While some lawmakers called the Delta exemption “corporate welfare,” Senate leader Casey Cagle bluntly said he would kill it to punish Delta for cutting ties with the NRA.

I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.

— Casey Cagle (@CaseyCagle) February 26, 2018

Cagle is a front-runner in his race to be Georgia’s next Governor.

But business watchers both inside and outside the state feel the Delta vote may just have eliminated Atlanta from the Amazon headquarters sweepstakes.

Amazon is promising to deliver 50,000 new, highly paid, tech jobs to whichever city wins.

Atlanta is one of the 20 finalists, but many had handicapped Atlanta as a front-runner.

But Atlanta businessman Larry Gellerstedt says Georgia lawmakers may have just blown that.

He is with the Real Estate Company already lining up potential sites for Amazon in Atlanta.

Gellerstedt says companies notice when businesses are punished for their public stances based on their values.

As for Amazon, the company isn’t responding to questions about the Delta vote.

One good sign for Georgia is that the company has refused to respond to petitions demanding that they remove the NRA’s public relations channel from the Amazon Fire streaming device.