Posted on 10/18/2018 8:16:27 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Courtney’s Restaurant and Catering owner Tom Courtney said he’s experienced a strong social media backlash because he rented the event room at his Mt. Juliet business to U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday.
Courtney said he’s been called a Nazi, an abuser, had his life threatened and said his staff has been verbally attacked.
Hundreds of posters on social media said they would boycott his restaurant because it was a local venue to Blackburn, who is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate against former Democratic Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.
“People have posted they love our food, but will no longer come to the restaurant,” Courtney said Monday. “I have never in my life experienced such a thing. It’s scary.”
Courtney said he didn’t file a police report about the threats.
“At first, I didn’t make a deal,” he said. “Right to free speech and everything. I don’t need to expose the idiots who are keyboard crazy and damage a small local business. The ghosts behind their posts. It will blow over. I’m just blown away though.”
The long-time restaurant owner has a meat-and-three located on North Mt. Juliet Road and has a meeting room he rents out nearly every day to musicians, local clubs and other groups. He said if the Bredesen campaign called tomorrow to rent the room, he’d say yes. It’s business for a small business trying to eke out a living.
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Voter intimidation. If the Dems win it won’t be legitimate.
Wea re not crazy, we are armed, and they haven't heard from us because we are not a mob.
When an NRA armed, trained citizen is attacked, she/he will defend themselves, and the perp will pay the price.
It will be no fun for the good citizen because taking another human life is serious and will leave a scar on the citizen.
I hate to say it, but it is coming, and it will be messy, ugly, brutal and when {not if} it starts, it will be like unleashing the dogs of war, once they are running...
May God have mercy on my soul, because I'll have none for them.
That is what I want to know... is this being reported on local TV and in local newspapers? Ditto for the attacks on Republican candidates in MN. I know CNN and the NYT will never report it, but I am curious about local news organizations.
AT the end of the story, this is how the owner responded, and it’s great!
“Courtney used social media to defend himself, writing “This is a family restaurant. It sells food. When people come in and order food, we sell it to them. We book events for all sorts of things including charities and business alliances, social organizations and such. We do NOT discriminate on race, religion or political affiliation. We have all manner of people eating in our establishment every day. They sit beside each other as neighbors and get along just fine. We are a family restaurant and we treat everyone as family with integrity and respect. Our employees’ political affiliations are their own. We have both parties represented and we work shoulder to shoulder each day. We would appreciate you treating us with the same respect as we treat each of you.”
I think it was a public fund raiser.
TN ping
I had to look that place up
Lots of northerners have moved into that area
Some hipsters too
But Wilson county went 70% Trump
Five points over my own county
Dont believe the boycott lies. Mt. Juliet is a smalll town.
Probably spam from metrosexuals in Davidson County (Nashville).
Davidson County faggot bots
Very likely
I imagine someday they’ll go all Che on us.
Because Love Trumps Hate or something.
They don’t want to have independent thought because they would have to admit they were duped by the tv set.
“If Jeb Bush was president, they wouldn’t be doing this.”
Yes, they would.
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