He is a deeply devout Christian who has donated to Republican candidates.

The entire reason for being of the Republican party is antithetical to the teachings of Christ. If he's a Republican, then he's a pseudo-Christian. No real belief in God.

I make that point regularly (and loudly) to ReTHUGlikkklans. My preferred term of endearment to those who have betrayed their heritage for a mess of 'I want some of that; maybe if I kiss ass on rich folks some of it might rub off' - gaaahhh!

Church's are very good at rationalizing every possible behavior as being somehow compatible with Jesus.

They think that all they have to do is repress women with their anti-choice crap and they will rush through the pearly gates into heaven's mansions.... Superstitious fools.

But then, she is a liberal with a conscience and isn't all about the money.

Peyton Manning is who he is. If people write to him, maybe he'll pay attention and drop Papa Johns...or maybe he'll pay attention and double down against the lib'rul bleeding hearts.

Boycott Papa Johns. If enough pizza eaters go elsewhere, the jobs will follow them and Papa Johns' employees won't have to work for that asshole any more.

I can't find anything on the exact numbers but their franchisee recruiting page says the company is an "owner and franchisor". For 50k you to can be a local papa john's dealer.

As a franchisee, I think Manning has a variety of standards he has to meet like production quality, store sanitation & appearance, and work process stuff (how they answer the phones, how they greet people, etc).

As I understand franchises, the home office specifically stays away from any and all personnel stuff...hire/fire, salary, benefits, etc. This is specifically delegated to the franchisee to insulate the home office from any responsibility for these folks. When you work at a papa john's...you work for the franchisee, not the "company".

That responsibility cuts two ways. When the CEO says he's going to cut hours to avoid health care, he can affect that change at the company stores but (in most cases) he can not dictate how any individual franchisee handles health care at his or her franchise locations.

May be different today but that's my take from having looked around at several franchises 8-10 years ago (although not papa johns).

If there were a way to educate him on this, he might come out and take a stand for the health care of his employees.

He put millions into that hospital. Why would he want to have a reputation of being against good health? It makes no sense. Why would you do that to your employees for 14 cents a pizza? And here's a clue, you do that to your employees and they will cost you a lot more than 14 cents because they treat the employer the same way the employer treats the employee.

I bet one phone call from Manning to that asshole would make him stop that policy. In fact, I don't believe Papa Johns will actually do that anyway. You need good motivated employees to make a business work. Jerk them around, cutting their hours like that and you won't have much of a work force. The guy is just talking BS -- just like those other asshats that say if Obama is reelected they won't continue to expand their businesses.

I heard a snippet on TV this weekend, and I thought that's what they said.

detergent he was spokesman for, but forced the company to make and air commercials in which he apologized for selling environmentally harmful crap.
More recently Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander returned a one million dollar fee to KFC and negotiated the end of his commercials for them due to their poor treatment of the chickens they use.
I can tell you this, as a non sports fan, Manning is one of the few that does ads well, and he'd be an idiot to spend his potential on John. I did not know who Mannnig was until his auto ads, sort of liked him. Now I hate his greedy guts. Any car he promots must suck rotten eggs, as does the pizza and his politics of greed.