Dang, I was a youngin and remember watching that.
Not a fan of the toe sucker butttt.....,
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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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.
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.
Oh Lordy. This ain’t good.
Dang, I was a youngin and remember watching that.
Not a fan of the toe sucker butttt.....,
I understand they do not serve blacks or Jews either.
My guess is that her husband, Bryan Sanders, called in the reservation.
and a splinless, pussy whipped excuse for a man, along with the poor boy standing between them. Pussy hats LOL!
from her FB page
I'd really like to see a video of that. Have you got one?
I see a lot of no-show reservations in her future. ;)
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.
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.
Unfortunately Conservatives are denied this right so unless it’s a right for all it’s a right for none.
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
VMI, put the restaurant off limits to all cadets and employees.
Sessions’ DOJ???
Remember this statement and throw it back at her when the business closes and she tries to blame Sanders or the rest of us.
Well, she made a choice to let her political opinion decide who she would serve. No Sarah, no body else. Good luck with bankruptcy.
“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. “
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She was widowed in 1938-—with a couple of pre-schoolers.
Buying property was not her priority,we were.
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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.
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