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Restaurant That Kicked Out GOP Gov. Huckabee Sanders Closes Its Doors
The Western Journal ^ | November 22, 2023 | Johnathan Jones

Posted on 11/23/2023 1:14:03 PM PST by Robwin

A Virginia restaurant that made headlines in 2018 after its owner kicked out then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for being a conservative is closing its doors.

The Red Hen, located in Lexington, Virginia, was the subject of negative headlines in June 2018 when owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked the then-press secretary and seven others she was dining with at the restaurant to leave.

Wilkinson, during an interview with The Washington Post at the time, explained she was at home when her employees called her to inform her that Sanders and her family had been seated in The Red Hen.

She said she drove to the restaurant to confirm the now-Arkansas governor was indeed dining in at the establishment. Per Wilkinson, her staff was “concerned.”

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 3rdtime; deadchicken; redhen; sarahhuckabee; theredhen; virginia
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Good bye and good riddance
1 posted on 11/23/2023 1:14:03 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Robwin

Que the Nelson meme....


2 posted on 11/23/2023 1:15:14 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: Robwin

Would like to see this diagramed on the F around chart…


3 posted on 11/23/2023 1:15:33 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Robwin

Open a Chic-A-Filet there.


4 posted on 11/23/2023 1:20:28 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Robwin

“Good bye and good riddance.”

Should have happened way before now. The owners deserve this 7 fold.


5 posted on 11/23/2023 1:21:18 PM PST by kagnew
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To: gov_bean_ counter

At common law and still in many states, if you injure someone and they die more than a year and a day later, you cannot be charged with murder. By the token, an incident 5.5 years ago cannot be reasonably said to have caused this result. This is so obvious, so
I’m not sure why this keeps getting posted. Restaurants infamously fail all the time, and this one claims to be retooling with a plan to reopen.


6 posted on 11/23/2023 1:22:53 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Robwin
Sarah has been on an upward trajectory since and could be our vice-president elect by next Thanksgiving.

Those old hens at the now defunct Red Hen can have fun standing in one of Joe Biden's bread lines.


7 posted on 11/23/2023 1:26:07 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: j.havenfarm
The headline misleading. But that was the intent.

Agreed, if it happened a few months after the event with Sanders, it could reasonably be said to becthe result of that incident. 5ish years later, very doubtful.

8 posted on 11/23/2023 1:28:57 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: Robwin

Headline is wrong. The will be closing Dec. 31 for remodeling and retooling branding.


9 posted on 11/23/2023 1:30:24 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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10 posted on 11/23/2023 1:33:01 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Robwin

😆😂🤣

What? There weren’t enough liberals to keep it going?

Sounds like Bed, Bath and Begone.


11 posted on 11/23/2023 1:37:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RedMonqey

🔝🔝


12 posted on 11/23/2023 1:38:27 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RedMonqey

and the RATS take another one in the.........HA ha!!!


13 posted on 11/23/2023 1:40:03 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Robwin
From the article:

No reason was offered for the imminent closure, but Wilkinson will shut down The Red Hen and attempt to reopen a new restaurant under a different name.

14 posted on 11/23/2023 1:41:49 PM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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Headline is wrong. The will be closing Dec. 31 for remodeling and retooling branding.

Yep, looks like maybe three of us actually read the article!

15 posted on 11/23/2023 1:42:59 PM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Robwin

Glad they failed——finally.
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RE: after its owner kicked out then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for being a conservative.
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And with all the “alleged” and “suspect” hoops we all have to go through about thugs who beat up elderly people and rape women joggers, shouldn’t the articles say “alleged conservative” if she was never convicted of being one?

Maybe she had a sealed juvenile conviction for being a GOP campaign volunteer or something. Who knows?


16 posted on 11/23/2023 1:50:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: rockabyebaby

That’s why it was written that way.


17 posted on 11/23/2023 1:53:09 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: Robwin

Rename it to the Red Guard.


18 posted on 11/23/2023 1:58:12 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Mark

Its chick-feel-A👍🏻


19 posted on 11/23/2023 2:30:20 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: rockabyebaby

I wonder if the restaurant lost the main cook, etc. It is not a very big restaurant, maybe half a dozen tables at most. The article wasn’t clear if the owner was going to reopen at the same location or at a new location.


20 posted on 11/23/2023 2:45:07 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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