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Lexington is the county seat of Rockbridge County. It has a population of just over 7,000 residents.
The county voted for Trump about 2 - 1. The city of Lexington voted almost the opposite for
Clinton about 2 - 1.
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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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I think the restaurant’s business will increase significantly because liberals will go out of their way to support the owner.
Good to hear I am not the only one. I am sure my president’s club membership has lapsed by now. Haven’t set foot in camping world since that clown’s whining excuse.
What would be funny is to have someone take pictures of all the customers who enter the restaurant and then post them online. The website can be titled “supporters of Fascism.”
“Sanders” sans “Huckabee”
It is not a very big restaurant, so who knows. What is interesting is Lexington is solid Trump territory. Trump won the county 61.9% to 32.5%. The republican congressman Bob Goodlatte won 68.5% to 31.25% in 2016.
Trump won the county. But the city of Lexington is big time leftist.
maybe your doctor will refuse to treat you because youre a commie sympathizer or voted for the traitor hillary
maybe the policeman will say sorry I dont protect leftist apparatcicks
maybe some of your suppliers with just ignore taking your business and dont deal with people who have little regard for customers
maybe ordinary people will be carrying BOYCOTT COMMIE in front of your restaurant from now on
maybe you will be out of business right quick after many people decide to show you what you have given up by siding with un-american scumbags and abandoning common respect.
you reap what you sow
see you in bankruptcy court.
I see a ~3rd of the workforce is education, so that would explain libs in town. Hillary only won 1 precinct out ~19. It wasn’t even close in the rest of precincts. The closest she came was about 6%. It was a total shellacking.
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.
SHS and party dodged a bullet. Had they been recognized and then served, you know their food would have been tainted in some way.
Sanders is her married name. She’s Governor Huckabee’s daughter. It appears that her husband made the reservation. That’s why the article said it was “in her husband’s name.”
When my wife and I go out to a restaurant, I give them my name. I’m more likely to pick up when they call us.
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Lexington is the county seat of Rockbridge County. It has a population of just over 7,000 residents.
The county voted for Trump about 2 - 1. The city of Lexington voted almost the opposite for
Clinton about 2 - 1.
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Thanks for the work digging up the chart. A previous poster mentioned Lexington was full of lefties.
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