Cracker Barrel to Racist Republican: Get Your 'Deportation Bus' Off My Lawn

[DonViejo]

Michael Williams is running for Georgia governor by bringing his “fill this bus with illegals” message to restaurants that want nothing to do with him.

KELLY WEILL
05.17.18 3:00 PM ET

A Republican running for governor of Georgia is bringing his racist “Deportation Bus Tour” to Cracker Barrel restaurants—and Cracker Barrel isn't having it.

Michael Williams, a Georgia state senator, is currently polling dead last in the state’s Republican primary. With the primary next week, Williams is trying to rally racists by hosting a “Deportation Bus Tour” from a converted school bus plastered with slogans like “FILL THIS BUS WITH ILLEGALS” and “DANGER! MURDERERS, RAPISTS, KIDNAPPERS, CHILD MOLESTORS [sic], AND OTHER CRIMINALS ON BOARD.”

The bus tour, which launched this week, has scheduled stops at Georgia restaurants, including at least 10 Cracker Barrels. Those stops are new to Cracker Barrel, which has spent the past two days unsuccessfully telling Williams to buzz off.

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In a statement, Cracker Barrel distanced itself from Williams.

“We are not sponsoring this event or supporting Mr. Williams’ campaign stops in any way, and per our company policy, we will not allow him – or any political candidate—to host an event on Cracker Barrel’s property,” the company said in a statement. “We take pride in showing our communities and our country that the hospitality we practice is indeed welcoming and inclusive to all.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cracker-barrel-to-racist-republican-get-your-deportation-bus-off-my-lawn?ref=home

[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. Have him trespassed and tow his bus!

[colinmom71]

22. No need for trespass, but he'll need the tow...

The Atlanta reddit forum has a lovely pic up of the bus broken down on the side of a local highway today.

[RKP5637]

2. What shit often tries to float to the top!!! n/t

[Glamrock]

3. Good on them!

[unblock]

4. wow, when the white supremacists have lost a place called "cracker barrel",....

[underpants]

5. What kind of shitbag thinks he can just do this?

Oh, THAT kind of shitbag.

[jberryhill]

6. Waffle House has more locations anyway

[underpants]

9. Fun Cracker Barrel game

Try to get three different colors on your plate. It's tougher than you think.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. It usually looks like camouflage!

Do shades count?

[underpants]

16. No shades do not count

The gravy chicken and potatoes are all a greenish tan so are the green beans and the carrots (unless they have a 3 star or above back in the kitchen). Buying a Red Skelton DVD or an American flag doormat in the gift shop and taking it to your table is cheating.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Point of order!

What if one eats the dvd and doormat?

[underpants]

21. Section 7 a. 1. ii

It may be hard to determine if that is the case given the nature of the base units

[Ilsa]

23. My husband and I play the game with

14 golf tees on a 15 hole triangle (or is it 20 with 21 holes?). You jump each tee until there is only one left.
I beat him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Footage here:

[EffieBlack]

8. When Cracker Barrell acts like it doesn't know you ...

[Gothmog]

10. This candidate is an asshole

[RandySF]

11. Green trumps all other colors

We can use that to our advantage.

[kysrsoze]

12. Wow, i swore off ever going there again. I may have to rethink that.

Glad to see they are not supporting such awful people. The should call the police.

[mcar]

13. When you've lost Cracker Barrel...

[OriginalGeek]

15. "DANGER! MURDERERS, RAPISTS, KIDNAPPERS, CHILD MOLESTORS [sic], AND OTHER CRIMINALS ON BOARD."

I am assuming HE is on board? LMFAO!

[Initech]

18. Excellent, hatemongers like this need to GTFO. Good for Cracker Barrel.

[Dave Starsky]

19. Cracker Barrel took a lot of shit in the mid-to-late 2000s...

For various discriminatory practices that they had been involved with.

Then some right-wing crazy white person was caught on camera beating up a black woman at one of their locations in front of her baby. It was on the national news. Everybody was talking about this.

In the fastest response I have ever seen from any national company to a public relations demise, Cracker Barrel not only denounced the behavior of the individual, but they put a large plackard with a statement of non-discrimination in the lobby of every Cracker Barrel that you will walk into. They have been doing this for the last nine years, at least.

[Hoyt]

20. This guy and the major GOPer gubernatorial candidates are going after racist/bigots with similar ads

The 3 top GOPers are running the same junk, they just don't have a bus. Reminds me of the days of Lester Maddox and J B Stoner.

This guy ran for governor when I was growing up. Claimed he wasn't a racist, right up until the looked him up for bombing a predominantly Black church in Birmingham.