You may have read this week about a certain Southern chain restaurant in a context you didn't expect.
Over breakfast at a Raleigh Biscuitville, a new lawsuit claims, House Speaker Tim Moore confessed his sexual relationship with a state employee and also implied to the woman's husband "that he could use his power he held as Speaker in some way to benefit" him.
The big picture: If that's true, it's not the first time a major North Carolina politics scandal has played out at a popular breakfast chain.
🥞 Flashback: Former N.C. House Speaker Jim Black met a former state representative at a Salisbury IHOP 20 years ago to hand over $50,000 in checks and cash awarded because the representative switched parties so that Black, a Democrat, could remain speaker.
Bonus: In 2019, Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger brought a bag of Bojangles to a meeting with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in hopes that their breaking biscuits together would result in a compromise on the state budget.
It didn't.
The lesson here, we think, is don't take political meetings at breakfast chains.
Or, more likely, there's no lesson here at all and the alleged December Biscuitville meeting is just another example of the strangeness of Southern politics.
