Resize Will the 2012 election be a contest of Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel shoppers? 
David Wasserman, Washington Post Syndicated  | In August, [Whole Foods’] Co-President Walter Robb joined dozens of other corporate chiefs in signing a pledge to abstain from political contributions until lawmakers "stop the partisan gridlock in Washington." But the libertarian views of iconoclastic Whole Foods founder and chief executive John Mackey, who swears by yoga and Ayn Rand, cast a long shadow.In August 2009, Mackey picked a fight with the left on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, where he lambasted health-care reform and offered The Whole Foods Alternative to Obamacare.   Published: 2011-12-09