Pruitt: Chick-fil-A is a 'franchise of faith'

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt is defending actions he took to try to help his wife secure a franchise opportunity with the fast food company Chick-fil-A, calling it a “franchise of faith.”

In an interview on Wednesday with a Nexstar correspondent, Pruitt defended reports that he sought to help his wife start a franchise with the chicken company by setting up a meeting with the help of an EPA staffer.

“Look my wife is an entrepreneur herself. I love, she loves, we love Chick-fil-A as a franchise of faith and one of the best in the country,” Pruitt said.

He added: “We need more of them in Tulsa, we need more of them across the country.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/391037-pruitt-chick-fil-a-is-a-franchise-of-faith?__twitter_impression=true

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The chic fillit is a well run business....but being christian has exactly dick to do with that.

[AJT]

18. You have to prove you belong to a Christian church in order to get a franchise.

[FBaggins]

27. That's not illegal

It would be illegal for them to hire front-line workers in that basis, but franchis owners are essentially business partners. There’s quite a bit more latitude in those cases

[wcmagumba]

2. Bring forth...

the Holy Chicken!

[underpants]

6. Let's see if Huckabee can try to create some relevance with this

Hey! He has nice convinced people to stand in a parking lot line and pay money as a form of protest.

[underpants]

3. Hate chicken we call it. Or (mine) Chic-fella 🕺

[C_U_L8R]

4. Faith in what?

Homophobic pickles?

[pwb]

5. Never ate one, never will now.

What did he offer to let the company throw chicken guts and heads in a drinking water supply?

[forgotmylogin]

25. Chik-fil-a marinates their chicken in pickle juice.

If that's not enough to count as a crime against humanity...

[dflprincess]

34. Actually using pickle juice to brine chicken isn't unusual

I've never tried it (and I've never eaten at Chk-Fil-A) but it supposedly makes the chicken juicier.

This is just one of the links that explains how to do it

https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pickle-brined-chicken

[forgotmylogin]

38. (shudder) Pickles.

Why'd it have to be pickles?

[James48]

7. And he STILL doesn't get it!

Look, Scott, it’s like this:

It doesn’t matter that Chick-filet has a direct line to Jesus, and that they are cooking up those little birds usually found at the temple for offerings!

What matters is that FEDERAL EMPLOYEES Do NOT work for you personally! They work for the American People, and by misusing them to help YOUR WIFE make money while THEY are working for tax dollars, and making them BUY A BED, and and doing PERSONAL ERRANDS is AGAINST THE LAW and a violation of Civil Service regulations! Don’t you get it???

Here- READ THIS:
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/regulations-authorities-and-reference-materials

[Flaleftist]

32. It's worse than that.

It's not just about personal errands. He tried to use his position to facilitate getting a franchise. As reported on Rachel last night, Chic-Fil-A accepts 100 out of 40,000 franchise applicants. I also have to wonder if he expected some kind of discount. Franchise fees are not cheap and this is the same guy who tried to buy a used hotel mattress.

[jmowreader]

36. CFA franchise fee is $10,000

And the company owns the restaurant; the operator leases it from them.

Plus...you can only run one store. Most franchisors almost demand you open multiple units.

[csziggy]

35. Exactly! I don't care what criteria Chik-Fil-A uses to select franchisees

I do object that people paid with MY FUCKING TAX MONEY were required by their grifter boss to do personal chores for him and his wife.

If Pruitt and his wife are pure enough to qualify to own a Chik-Fil-A franchise, then they can take care of the business with their own employees paid with their own money.

I'm fucking fed up watching these thieves spend my tax money to fill their pockets. I want them all in jail for stealing money from our government!

[Docreed2003]

8. So it's ok to use your position of power to make a buck because that business is "faith based"??

And this:

[PoorMonger]

9. Lol

More like — he thought because the owner is an Evangelical he had ‘faith’ they would gladly do a Trumper a favor. Not a good reflection of what he thinks of his own professed religion

[atreides1]

10. I ate there once

I was not impressed, and that was before I discovered it was owned by an anti-gay bible thumper!!!

[Solly Mack]

11. Yeah, yeah. Let there be chicken.

fart noises

[sharp_stick]

12. He is such a fucking idiot

I can only imagine the photo's he must have of Trump or other administration officials in order to still have his job.

He's useless and a complete embarrassment to even MAGAts. Tom Price was gone with only a few scandals to compare to this fuckheads dozens.

[Gore1FL]

13. Reminds me of this oldie but goody:

[3catwoman3]

30. That was hilarious.

Reminds me of some of the Liberal Redneck's rants.

[hatrack]

14. STFU, you Bible-beating corrupt Okie fucking HICK!!!

SHUT UP!!! GO AWAY!!! FUCKING RESIGN, you POS!!!

[ollie10]

15. how much does a chick-fil-a franchise cost?

....if you are not a swamp creature?

[MurrayDelph]

16. They make a good sandwich

but until they stop hiding behind their false piety as an excuse to discriminate, I won't go back.

[Orangepeel]

17. Yeah, I stole that car, but in my defense, it is a great car and I love it!

What kind of a sorry excuse for abusing his position is “we love Chick-fil-a”?

[Marthe48]

19. Chick-fil-a is on my boycott list

You can run a business or a country and keep your religious beliefs out of it.

And by the way, pruitt, get the hell out of the EPA. You are a nasty little chicken plucking criminal.

[truthisfreedom]

20. Chick-fil-A Is a dealer of discrimination.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. So as well as using govt employees to get your wife rich, you want to break the 1st amendment

and use the govt employees' time because it's a "franchise of faith"?

Pruitt really is the walking embodiment of the swamp.

[truthisfreedom]

22. It's not about faith. It's about breaking the rules. It's about abuse

of a powerful position.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. Well, under those circumstances, it's okay for him to use federal workers,

on government time, to find a job for his wife.

No problem.

[tanyev]

24. Faith and $10,000 dollars. Wonkette did a in-depth investigative report:

OK, time out, what the fuck, WHY? Why in hell does Scott Pruitt need to talk to DAN FUCKING CATHY about setting up his wife Marlyn with a nice chicken establishment or three? Because we Googled for approximately three seconds and learned that if you have $10,000 of start-up moneys, and you meet some other qualifications, and go through the pre-requisite training, YOU YOURSELF can become the president of your very own Eat Mor Chikin’ fast food establishment. Seriously, the application is online.

Was this just the height of grifty laziness? Did Pruitt figure he’d ask Dan Cathy for a Chikin’ Reacharound, in order that his wife may flaunt the Chikin’ Laws, pushing her to the front of the line and guaranteeing she’d be one of the approximately 100 new franchise owners selected that year?

Read more at https://wonkette.com/634849/how-the-hell-is-scott-pruitt-abusing-his-office-today-hint-it-involves-eating-mor-chikin#uOcqhuEIkrukaKRb.99

[tazkcmo]

26. Over rated.

I ate one of their sandwiches once and for the life of me, I just don't get it. Small, bland and dry and six bucks for something I'd apologize to my dog for feeding her one.

[Phoenix61]

28. I used to like them then I found out what

an ass the owner is and that's the last time I ever ate there.

[JDC]

29. Waffle fries are a sign from god! At least with Ranch Dressing they are

[roamer65]

31. Sewer rat Pruitt can shove his fucking faith right up his fucking ass.

[riversedge]

39. well, gee, that is saying what you mean:-)

[milestogo]

33. Every Chick-Fil-A thread must have this video in it:

[FSogol]

37. Every Sunday, someone in my house will say, "Hey let's go to Chick-fil-a." Then we all

have a good laugh.