Posted on 06/26/2018 8:36:51 AM PDT by Reno89519
We are winning! Several days ago Stephanie Wilkinson kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of her Red Hen restaurant because Sanders worked for President Trump. Not polite, not nice. As we found out more, like that Stephanie Wilkinson is executive director of Main Street Lexington, which promotes downtown Lexington businesses, I dug up the names and email of her partner businesses and suggested we write them. That discussion thread has several hundred comments and likely resulted in lots of email to these people.
It did! Look at this morning's Fox News Report at http://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=5802047887001
So, here's our challenge. Write a new or a follow-up email to keep the pressure on these people!
Pops88 suggested this email, which is great follow-up: "As of today I’ve seen no public apology on the Main Street Lexington website or Facebook page. Therefore, I can only assume your tacit support of Stephanie Wilkinson and her employees. I have visited Lexington, but will not in the future. I will not knowingly patronize a town or it’s businesses that either openly or silently approve of bigotry, hatred and intolerance."
My original emails to these 21 Lexington business partners at Main Street Lexington was: "As you likely know, Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of Red Hen, booted Sara Huckabee Sanders and her family from her restaurant last night because of who she works for. This is bigotry, wrong. Sarah was there to order dinner off the menu, she didn’t announce who she was, didn’t ask for special treatment, wasn’t rude. Stephanie is executive director of Main Street Lexington, which your company is a member of. So, do you agree with her bigotry, is this what Main Street Lexington promotes, and is it what your business promotes? This is a question I will be asking of all local businesses and post on my blog and on public blogs. Your county voted 62% for Trump. Incredible to see a local business leader and business show such bigotry. Should we boycott not just Red Hen, but your Main Street Lexington organization, your business, and Lexington?"
Here is my original post on Saturday: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3665629/posts and here are the emails you can write to asking her Main Street Lexington sponsors, partners, and members if they support her bigotry:
Any answers?
bttt
On a serious note, yes 'she had a right', did she really? Don't those LGBT-whatever laws prohibit discrimination? Isn't that what Wilkinson did? Shouldn't the law apply against Wilkinson? I think so.
House Mountain Yarn Co.
She also owns:
housemountainyarnco.com
117 S Main St, Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 462-2931
Open until 8 PM
2 Yelp reviews
I have received one so far:
Thank you for contacting CornerStone Bank. As you saw from his email Steve Grist is currently out of town so he has asked me to respond to you on his behalf regarding your questions and concerns.
As a local business, we are disappointed that Lexington, VA has recently been portrayed as a less than welcoming and accepting town, when the opposite is true. At CornerStone Bank, our vision has always been to be the best and most caring place to bank in the communities we serve. Our “CornerStone Cares” approach to service reflects how we behave toward our employees, customers, community and visitors. In all of our interactions, we treat others with respect, regardless of their political viewpoints and encourage civility at all times when interacting with others who have a different view.
As this area’s only locally and managed bank, our commitment to this community is strong. We demonstrate that commitment by supporting local organizations and events, including Main Street Lexington, whose purpose is to enhance the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of the downtown Lexington area.
Going forward, CornerStone Bank will continue to be a positive champion for our community while we do what we do best - provide superior banking services with care and kindness.
I got a couple, the banker is out so a partner wrote but didn’t answer the questions, I wrote back and haven’t heard further. Another wrote that they were not a colleague of hers. A couple others were ‘out-of-the-office’ automated replies. No one engaged me in discussion, none answered the questions raised. But the news report suggests the emails are having impact and are being noticed.
Yes, same text I got. I wrote them back and heard no further.
I heard the yarn she sells is mostly imported from Bangladesh and repackaged. The tensile strength is low and thus the yarn is inferior.
Send a email or call her husband and ask him about the “Ethics” of what his wife did.
https://vmi.academia.edu/DuncanRichter/CurriculumVitae
I guess it was a good thing Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not ask Red Hen to bake her a cake. Leftist double standards.
A couple email addresses are bouncing. But otherwise sent to everyone. Devon Hewitt of Jamrock Island Grille wrote that they have moved from the area.
And undoubtedly made by brown slavey children!
Yelp, like Facebook, is deleting reviews.
Last I saw said they had raised $2,500. Wonder if Wilkinson will donate that to a local charity, share it with her now unemployed staff, or put it in her pocket?
The way I see it, the bigoted bag did SHS a favor:
It helped Sarah avoid financially supporting a truly disgusting human being with utterly misguided opinions and values.
They do write back! So far, all polite. Whistle Creek says they are apolitical but doesn’t address their membership in Main Street Lexington led by Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of Red Hen.
“In before the white gloved, National Review crowd yelps; “She had a right to kick Sarah & her family out on their butts!!”
Of course she has the right - however she also must face the consequences.
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