Restaurant owner asks Texans not to boycott any business after confusion over Beto rally

A Beto O’Rourke fundraising event in Waxahachie has led to calls for boycotts of the restaurant that hosted it. And another, unrelated restaurant with a similar name.

The owner of that unrelated restaurant in Dallas said she doesn’t want any restaurant to be boycotted.

O’Rourke, the Democrat running for Texas governor, planned an event a Big Al’s Down the Hatch in Waxahachie, a barbecue joint owned by radio personality Big Al Mack.

The event was originally expected to attract a couple hundred people during the day, but quickly grew to thousands, Mack said, leading the O’Rourke campaign to get a permit to close the street and turn it into a sort of block party. He said that, for him, hosting the event was just a part of his business.

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