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The Left Just Can't Leave Chick-fil-A Alone
PJ Media ^ | 12/29/2023 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 12/29/2023 8:00:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

What is about Chick-fil-A that absolutely drives so many on the Left to push for its destruction via periodic spasms of boycotts (that typically fail) or imposing abusive government regulations like that proposed by New York State Assemblyman Tony Simone?

Simone is a freshman member of the Empire State's legislature, representing a district that encompasses "Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Midtown and part of the Lincoln Center area in Manhattan," according to his official website.

For whatever reason, Simone became deeply concerned about the fact that some Sunday travelers on the New York Thruway (NYTW) might not be able to get their lunch or dinner at one of the Chick-fil-As operating Monday through Saturday at six state-managed rest stops.

"It’s Sunday, Christmas Eve … thousands of New Yorkers are traveling to their families to find restaurants at rest areas across the state. The Thruways are meant to serve New York travelers first. I think it’s ridiculous that you’re able to close on Sunday, one of the busiest travel days of the week," Simone told a local New York media outlet

"You know, we get hungry when we’re traveling. We may not like our brother-in-law or sister-in-law’s cooking and wanna get a snack on Christmas Eve," the Democrat Assemblyman noted. "To find one of the restaurants closed on the Thruway is just not in the public good."

So Simone's bill commands Chick-fil-A to violate its own well-known practice of not opening its stores on Sundays so that employees are free to worship or not, as they choose, to spend time with their families, and get some well-deserved rest.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chickfila; food; harassment; newyork; persecution; sabbath
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To: DesertRhino

I’m with you. Most don’t realize CFA sold out to the creeps.


41 posted on 12/29/2023 8:39:26 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: 1Old Pro

You made it sound like nothing would have been built there if it weren’t for Chick-fil-A doing the work. Sorry for the misunderstanding. :-O


42 posted on 12/29/2023 8:39:49 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve driven on the Thruway before. As I recall, their rest stops also have convenience stores.


43 posted on 12/29/2023 8:39:56 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: 1Old Pro

For what it’s worth, it is illegal for the government to operate retail/food services within the right-of-way of the Interstate Highway System under current Federal law. The only reason those service areas even exist on the New York State Thruway is that the highway is covered under a grandfather clause in the Federal statute because the service areas were in place before the law went into effect in 1960.


44 posted on 12/29/2023 8:42:05 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: SeekAndFind

....with all due respect, you have fell into the tiresome, nauseating trap that Liberals ALWAYS set for Conservatives to wit:

It is none of the Lefts fn business! Chick Filet is entitled to run their business any way it sees fit. Obviously Chick Filet has a contract to run these stores for the state and obviously in that contract are operating hours that New York agreed to.


45 posted on 12/29/2023 8:43:09 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: realcleanguy

The following is from the Assemblyman’s bio linked in the article. Being gay might not be enough to keep him as a white guy in rat politics but himself-Hispanic background and advocacy for every leftist cause he can think of seems to check enough boxes to keep
Him viable:

It was these experiences that inspired him to seek elected office to address the community’s most important issues: public safety, the mental health crisis, the affordable housing shortage, creating a healthcare system for all, climate change, tenant and immigrant rights, and equity for disabled people and LGBTQ+. He believes that government can be a force for equity, progress, and the improvement of all our lives.

Tony was born in Queens in 1970. His mother was born in Peru and immigrated to NYC in 1968. His father was born in Astoria, Queens, the oldest of four children in an Italian-American family. Tony’s father drove taxis and trucks to support his family. His late grandfather was a Teamster’s union delegate, who showed him the importance of public service and collective action from a young age. He received a BA in Political Science and a BS in Applied Economics from Hofstra University, and an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Tony lives in Hell’s Kitchen with his husband, Jason, and their rescue dog, Radar


46 posted on 12/29/2023 8:50:24 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ansel12

No midwit… They joined the gay side and BLM side and I didn’t go with them. You apparently did.


47 posted on 12/29/2023 8:52:12 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Noumenon

Roger that.


48 posted on 12/29/2023 9:07:40 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: DesertRhino

Yes you did go with them, here at FR you are passionately supporting the gay power attack on them.

You didn’t bypass this thread you jumped on it with both feet and took a passionate and loud stand.


49 posted on 12/29/2023 9:07:49 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SeekAndFind

I grew up in the South when Blue Laws kept everything closed on Sundays except one Junior Food Store. Some people have no clue.


50 posted on 12/29/2023 9:10:21 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My impression from various sources is that a convenience store and multiple food outlets will be at the locations.

It doesn’t appear to be a matter of driving up to a simple rest stop and the lonely Chick-fil-A being closed on a Sunday.


51 posted on 12/29/2023 9:13:43 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SeekAndFind

But, you are ignoring the fact that CFilA openly supports and funds drag queen shows for kiddies.
It has been years since that food outlet has supported any form of Christianity. They support grooming and pedo — openly.

Let them get sued into the ground by their own kind.


52 posted on 12/29/2023 9:18:01 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: ansel12

So, what he/she is saying is his/her constituency wants the right to not eat at CF on Sunday as well since they are supposed to be boycotting them. Am I close???


53 posted on 12/29/2023 9:19:21 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: ansel12

They’re your friends weirdo. I don’t stand with them. They embraced the gay and blm culture, and you stand right there with them. Now leave me alone Joto


54 posted on 12/29/2023 9:21:01 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Those freeway rest stops are open seven days a week, if Chick-fil-A wants to be at them they should also be open seven days a week. On their own private property, they can do whatever they want, public property they need to be open or else make room for another business that will be open. As a past frequent traveler of those Rest, stop, they need to be open.


55 posted on 12/29/2023 9:25:20 AM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s as much about forcing a company to violate their Christian beliefs as anything else


56 posted on 12/29/2023 9:25:25 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DesertRhino

Don’t make ansel mad...
He will report you to the mods


57 posted on 12/29/2023 9:26:56 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I was on the NYS Thruway before and after Christmas this week. Along with the Thruway rest stops, there’s exits for towns and cities. No one is going to starve to death if Chick Fil A is closed on Sundays.

In fact, take an exit and hit up one of the mom and pop restaurants in town. You’ll probably eat better, help support a family, and get to know more of NY other than I-90.


58 posted on 12/29/2023 9:31:26 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: DesertRhino

We are on two different sides, you are supporting the homosexuals and I am opposing them.


59 posted on 12/29/2023 9:32:59 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: joe fonebone

Don’t troll.


60 posted on 12/29/2023 9:33:30 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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