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The owner of the Red Hen explains why she asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave
The Washington Post ^ | 06/23/18 | Avi Selk

Posted on 06/23/2018 1:56:12 PM PDT by Simon Green

Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — nearly 200 miles from the White House — when the choice presented itself.

Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in Lexington, Va.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.

“He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?” Wilkinson told The Washington Post. “I said I’d be down to see if it’s true.”

It seemed unlikely to her that President Trump’s press secretary should be dining at a 26-seat restaurant in rural Virginia. But then, it was unlikely that her entire staff would have misidentified Sanders, who had arrived last to a table of eight booked under her husband’s name.

As she made the short drive to the Red Hen, Wilkinson knew only this:

She knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.

And she knew — she believed — that Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked in the service of an “inhumane and unethical” administration. That she publicly defended the president’s cruelest policies, and that that could not stand.

“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson said. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; bakethecake; civilrights; discrimination; doublestandard; idiotrestauranteur; redhen; sarahsanders; stephaniewilkinson
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To: Simon Green

would like to defend this owner. She is perfectly in her legal rights to decide who her business serves, and to stand up for her own convictions.

Remember that the next time a wedding caterer or photographer is hung out to dry for doing the same thing. All I am asking is one set of rules. Because if you DON’T stand with the same rules for both sides, you are a despicable hypocrite.


221 posted on 06/23/2018 5:40:19 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: TChad
In most cases, refusal of service is warranted where a customer’s presence in the restaurant detracts from the safety, welfare, and well-being of other patrons and the restaurant itself.

If this is adjudicated and the court buys this as a valid defense, the precedent will be earth shattering. Imagine telling ferals at dennys, ihop, Mcds, waffle hs they will not be served because their presence detracts from the safety of the restaurant and others.

222 posted on 06/23/2018 5:47:15 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: sdthree

Oh Lordy. This ain’t good.


223 posted on 06/23/2018 5:47:43 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: laconic
"the airhead who ruined many apple farmers over a nonexistent contamination by Alar"

Dang, I was a youngin and remember watching that.

Not a fan of the toe sucker butttt.....,


224 posted on 06/23/2018 6:02:58 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Simon Green

I understand they do not serve blacks or Jews either.


225 posted on 06/23/2018 6:04:47 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: small farm girl

My guess is that her husband, Bryan Sanders, called in the reservation.


226 posted on 06/23/2018 6:08:03 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: sdthree
Her husband, Duncan Richter, is a professor at VMI.

and a splinless, pussy whipped excuse for a man, along with the poor boy standing between them. Pussy hats LOL!

from her FB page

227 posted on 06/23/2018 6:14:37 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: mrsmel
like they did when they had schoolchildren singing hymns to Hussein, in which they replaced the name of the Lord Jesus Christ with Hussein’s name.

I'd really like to see a video of that. Have you got one?

228 posted on 06/23/2018 6:21:54 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: TonyM

I see a lot of no-show reservations in her future. ;)


229 posted on 06/23/2018 6:29:49 PM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: impimp

While I agree with you in principal we have to hold leftists to the same standard they hold everyone else to or we fight them with both hands behind our backs.


230 posted on 06/23/2018 6:33:18 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Because these are the rules leftists want to impose on us, make them play by the same rules. How do we know she wasn’t discriminated against because she has an accent? If they don’t recognize the right of a conservative who owns a business to deny service then they don’t deserve that right either.


231 posted on 06/23/2018 6:36:11 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Simon Green; pookie18
RED_HEN_PLUCKED
232 posted on 06/23/2018 6:36:33 PM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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To: tiki

Unfortunately Conservatives are denied this right so unless it’s a right for all it’s a right for none.


233 posted on 06/23/2018 6:37:16 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Simon Green; All

https://www.whitepages.com/name/Stephanie-Wilkinson/Lexington-VA/4x3ce0t

Stephanie Wilkinson

Age 50s

Phone numbers
(540) 463-2421

Landline

Current address
620 Stonewall St Lexington VA 24450-1933


234 posted on 06/23/2018 6:38:34 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Simon Green

VMI, put the restaurant off limits to all cadets and employees.


235 posted on 06/23/2018 6:38:42 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: JMS

Sessions’ DOJ???


236 posted on 06/23/2018 6:42:53 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Simon Green
"..This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.."

Remember this statement and throw it back at her when the business closes and she tries to blame Sanders or the rest of us.

237 posted on 06/23/2018 6:51:36 PM PDT by Ez2BRepub
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To: Simon Green

Well, she made a choice to let her political opinion decide who she would serve. No Sarah, no body else. Good luck with bankruptcy.


238 posted on 06/23/2018 6:55:26 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: frog in a pot

“If ownership was a prerequisite, anyone like your mother who was willing to walk to the voting booth in any type of weather would have found a way to buy property. “

She was widowed in 1938-—with a couple of pre-schoolers.

Buying property was not her priority,we were.

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239 posted on 06/23/2018 7:09:02 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Simon Green

The owner must have realized she stepped in it big time.
Liberals won’t be flocking to her restaurant as they don’t like paying for anything let alone leave a tip for the staff.


240 posted on 06/23/2018 7:19:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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