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Thanks, Red Hen, for kicking out Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The Boton Globe ^ | June 25, 2018 | Michael A. Cohen

Posted on 06/26/2018 8:59:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WHEN STEPHANIE WILKINSON, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave that dining establishment last Friday, she opened up yet another front in America’s ongoing cultural war.

Those on the right and some on the left have bemoaned the decline in civility reflected by Wilkinson’s decision. “Let the Trump team eat in peace,” wrote the Washington Post editorial board, which expressed concern that “justifying” such “incivility” will leave only the most “zealous” to pursue a career in public service.

“Kind of amazed and appalled by the number of folks on Left who applauded the expulsion of @PressSec and her family from a restaurant,” tweeted former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod. “This, in the end, is a triumph for @realDonaldTrump[’s] vision of America: Now we’re divided by red plates & blue plates!”

These arguments are understandable. Norm-shredding begets more norm-shredding; incivility begets more incivility, and it is anyone’s guess to where this path will lead us. The problem, however, is that we are already on a dangerous, anti-democratic road.

And Wilkinson — in a singular act of civil, political protest — has offered a useful, alternative path forward.

In an interview with the Washington Post, she said that several of her employees are gay and are bothered by Sanders’ defense of the president’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. Others are troubled by Sanders’ complicity with the White House’s monstrous family separation policy....

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


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KEYWORDS: huckabee; redhen; stephaniewilkinson; trump; virginia
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To: magna carta
I too know some pro-Trump homosexuals. From them, I'm thinking, it takes extra courage.

We can accept a vote from anybody.

81 posted on 06/26/2018 10:20:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("For peace within your gates, speak truth and judge with sound judgment." - Zechariah 8:16)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Both sides of my family came to the Richmond colony in the 1650s. They traveled up the Chesapeake and settled in World’s End, just outside Church Creek. Parks and Foxwells still live there today. All remain patriots. As Anne is fond of saying, we are settlers, not immigrants.


82 posted on 06/26/2018 10:45:49 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satan's finest work.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WE OUT GUN, AND OUT SHOOT THEM.


83 posted on 06/26/2018 10:55:35 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Blue House Sue
It was hard to get a table at the Red Hen a month ago and it will be difficult to get a table a year from now.

They proudly boasted that their reservations were now full for several months, saying their rudeness helped their bottom line. Then they closed Saturday out of "fear" and it turned out that a lot of their new reservations were fake - presumably conservatives who booked a table for the purpose of not showing up. "Nice restaurant they had there. It would be a shame if that line of protest continued."

84 posted on 06/26/2018 11:10:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

The restaurant acted within its rights, just as a baker in the same town could act within his right and refuse to make a cake for a gay wedding.


85 posted on 06/26/2018 11:13:03 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue
It was hard to get a table at the Red Hen a month ago and it will be difficult to get a table a year from now.

Show up anyway, demand to be seated. Cause a scene.

There are so many ways to make life miserable for these leftist bigots.

86 posted on 06/26/2018 11:28:58 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then I’m guessing it would be acceptable to spit on obungo’s daughters or egg Hillary Clinton. Right?


87 posted on 06/26/2018 11:36:44 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: miniTAX
And has “several gay employees”, meaning many more normal employees and a yuuge total workforce. If true, something definitely doesn’t add up here but hey, that’s libtard arithmetics.

Sounds like a known liberal leftist granola cruncher restaurant - Pretty sure they would look askance at anyone not wearing their "uniform" - Birkenstock sandals, gray haired ladies wearing sun dresses, men wearing leggings, lot full of Toyota Pious's.

88 posted on 06/26/2018 11:38:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fruser1

Red Hen Mayo, now with extra AIDS!


89 posted on 06/26/2018 11:45:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: fruser1
Hmmm, why is the mayonnaise so sticky?

It's got a little wang in it

90 posted on 06/26/2018 12:02:03 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: rlmorel

Roger that, re: Target.

I used to shop there pretty much exclusively. Dry goods and groceries, both.

No more. There are two things that I can’t get anywhere else, and I’ve not found a decent replacement yet. So - I go back a couple of times a year to get those two specific things, and nothing else.

Went from hundreds a month, to a few 10s of dollars a year. And, I suspect that I’m not the only one. Last time I checked, their stock had tanked.


91 posted on 06/26/2018 1:08:45 PM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill

My wife is not political in nearly any way. I told her why I don’t wish to patronize Target anymore, and she doesn’t really understand.

She wanted to buy me some shirts a while back at Target, and I said “I will pay more to buy them somewhere else, anywhere but Target.” I think she gets it now, because she doesn’t ask me about anything at Target anymore.

Before, I used to be just uninterested in Target. I could go there and buy something, but generally, didn’t go in the place just because I didn’t find it interesting or compelling, but if my wife saw something there, I would go with her.

Now, I actively avoid the place. When will they learn to JUST DO BUSINESS?


92 posted on 06/26/2018 1:14:54 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

leftists will be leftists

‘took a vote’ of employees ...

when do they EVER do that for anything else ???

America ‘Took a Vote’ too.


93 posted on 06/26/2018 2:38:41 PM PDT by elbook
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To: rlmorel

Yeah, for me it wasn’t so much the political stand that they took... I work every day with people whom I disagree. It was the arrogance of the management. “We’re doing this and you’ll like it, or else”. Why they weren’t canned, from the top down, is beyond me. The Board must think the same way, all the better reason to avoid the stores.

Still, I darken their door about twice a year. Until I find a replacement for those two items, then I’m done. What’s interesting is that the past couple of times I’ve been in - once at Christmas and once recently- I had the place to myself. Could count the number of shoppers on two hands, certainly, and the checkers were just standing around talking. June?? Ok. But on a weekend in the middle of December? Place should have been mobbed.


94 posted on 06/26/2018 3:28:05 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Blue House Sue

On another thread I read that it is closed for business until the 5th of July.


95 posted on 06/26/2018 9:45:42 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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