From the non-news department: Cracker Barrel, the racist and homophobic “family” slop chain, has a “history of backing the GOP.”
Well, DUH.
Cracker Barrel has doled out roughly half a million dollars in political contributions in the past decade, but a $25,000 donation two years ago has landed the restaurant chain in trouble with the law in Texas.
The Lebanon-based company was one of eight corporations indicted Tuesday by a grand jury on charges of illegal financial activity. The indictment cites a $25,000 contribution in September 2002 from Cracker Barrel to Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee with ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
Cracker Barrel also has contributed $5,000 to DeLay’s political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, which helped create the Texas committee.
The indictment alleges that Cracker Barrel was part of a scheme to funnel corporate money to political candidates in violation of Texas campaign law.
I hate Cracker Barrel, I despise their racist and homophobic discriminatory practices, and their food is rather unappealing as well. Now I just have more reasons to boycott them, as I’ve done for years — I once went so far as to sit in the car while my mother and stepfather stopped to get something to eat.
