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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
File a anti discrimination suit against that left wing .
They have a Left wing board in that left wing hell hole county .
121 posted on 06/23/2018 2:57:32 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever)
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To: Simon Green
"a 26-seat restaurant"

“I have a business, and I want the business to thrive."

With 26 seats?

It sounds like more of a hobby than a real business.

122 posted on 06/23/2018 2:57:41 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: COUNTrecount

i understand that. i am just saying she shouldn’t hide behind her staffs made up concerns.


123 posted on 06/23/2018 2:58:59 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Simon Green

There’s that “M” word again. Sorry princess, commie lib “democrats” don’t have morals. They never have had them. Grow up.


124 posted on 06/23/2018 2:59:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Williams

As in separating children from their mother?


125 posted on 06/23/2018 3:02:06 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (Socialism is theft.)
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To: JMS

The leftist courts have already ruled that it is constitutional to discriminate against someone for their political affiliation.


126 posted on 06/23/2018 3:02:27 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Simon Green

Wilkinson must be a liar. If you go to Yelp and read the reviews, tens of thousands of commie libs “ate there last night” and found it an enjoyable experience with “great food” brought in by “talented farmers”.


127 posted on 06/23/2018 3:02:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Simon Green

She should told the staff to spit in their food like Jesse Jackass.


128 posted on 06/23/2018 3:02:49 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Simon Green
The median income for a household in the city was $28,982, and the median income for a family was $58,529. Males had a median income of $35,288 versus $26,094 for females. The per capita income was $16,497. About 8.4% of families and 21.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.9% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over.

No real reason that the town would be full of communists. I was thinking maybe a lot of retired civil servants -- but income level is pretty low for that. (The demographics sound more like what the libs think of Trump voters, but aren't.)

129 posted on 06/23/2018 3:04:22 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Simon Green

I wonder if her server complained about black guests, if she would ask them to leave?


130 posted on 06/23/2018 3:06:32 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The leftist courts have already ruled that it is constitutional to discriminate against someone for their political affiliation.

I don't have any problem with that as long as they warn me ahead of time. Better to not go to the restaurant than to have them spit, **** or **** in my food.

131 posted on 06/23/2018 3:06:52 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Simon Green; All
"The owner of the Red Hen
explains why she asked
Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave...."


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132 posted on 06/23/2018 3:08:13 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Simon Green

The left says Trump supporters are nazi’s. The first thing the nazi’s did was not to allow Jews to come to their businesses. Replace Jews with Republicans...


133 posted on 06/23/2018 3:09:37 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This louse is a cousin of Meryl Streep?? Explains a lot - the airhead who ruined many apple farmers over a nonexistent contamination by Alar; who wildly applauded the “art” of pedophile Roman Polanski who raped a 13 year old girl; who publicly called the pig rapist Harvey Weinstein “God” while he continued on his rampage of assaults against young women. Go home to New York City (Not the State or Long Island), louse, and take your cohorts who abandoned socialism to try and bring it to Virginia.


134 posted on 06/23/2018 3:09:44 PM PDT by laconic
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People should enter the place, ask them if this is the restaurant that did not server her, then after they say yes, announce they are walking across the street to another place to eat.


135 posted on 06/23/2018 3:10:15 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: Yogafist

Well, one black guest could have been Barak Obama, who was responsible for the pictures in the “press” that they blamed on Trump. Imagine this witch from New York throwing HIM out for the policy he began and of which she complained.


136 posted on 06/23/2018 3:11:49 PM PDT by laconic
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To: impimp

Neither should a person’s chosen sex practices be a protected class, but it is. I’m not in favor of making it illegal to kick someone out for their political views, but let’s also roll it back that you can sue a business for not agreeing to disseminate your views on sex.


137 posted on 06/23/2018 3:12:14 PM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“The leftist courts have already ruled that it is constitutional to discriminate against someone for their political affiliation.”

That works both ways. The homosexuals come in the bakers shop. Baker asks them any political question, automatically says “get out of my shop because I vehemently disagree with your political opinion.”


138 posted on 06/23/2018 3:12:43 PM PDT by Clay Moore (MAGA)
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To: CopperTop

I also bet she told the Christian baker he was an evil homophobe who had to bake the cake.


139 posted on 06/23/2018 3:14:38 PM PDT by SpirituTuo
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To: Simon Green

She is about to find out $$. People should make reservations and not show, show up a loudly complain, disupt every sitting. Harass their patrons. Just make their life miserable...


140 posted on 06/23/2018 3:15:16 PM PDT by databoss
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