S E E D E D C O N T E N T'The Red Hen' restaurant that kicked out @ PressSec Sarah Sanders on Friday will remain closed until next week, and the owner has resigned from a local business organization. @ dougmckelway reports. # SpecialReport https:// fxn.ws/2N0doSw
Red Hen Shut for 10 days; Owner loses seat on area board
The Lexington, Virginia restaurant that kicked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family out has shut its doors for an extended period and the owner is no longer the Executive Director of a group of local owners who work to promote the community.
Stephanie Wilkinson resigned from Main Street Lexington, a group working to revitalize the city’s downtown area, just days after she rudely kicked Sanders and her entire family out of the Red Hen , a restaurant she owns, then stalked them to another restaurant , called in a mob, and harassed them while they ate. The entire atrocious affair was due to Wilkinson’s hatred of the president.
Main Street Lexington’s Board President, Elizabeth Branner, accepted Wilkonson’s resignation Tuesday morning.
“Considering the events of the past weekend, Stephanie felt it best that for the continued success of Main Street Lexington, she should step aside,” Branner wrote in an email.
The Red Hen has been closed since the incident and, according to news reports , won’t open back up until at least July 5th.
While the extended shutdown will cost the employees and owners significantly, the decision to kick the Sanders family out of the restaurant was come to by a vote. If there were any dissenters, they are the only ones being hurt by someone else’s decision.
The restaurant has been the subject of pro-Trump gatherings throughout the day Thursday.
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didn't think that stunt would go over well
Time for a road trip to show my support (and check out their menue).
She expressed her beliefs and went after someone that was dining there witht heir family. It was a stuopid thing to do, but she has that right. Now, everyone else gets to exercise their rights. Again, it was a stupid thing to do, as a business owner-now hse gets to reap the rewards-good, bad or indifferent.
I think the Red Hen will be going out of business. She made a big mistake because now a large percentage of republicans will no longer dine there and there are a lot of democrats who don't agree will denying service because of Political affiliations and they will go elsewhere. Almost every time I go out in a group it contains a mix of political viewpoints and if one person says "I don't want to go there" we'd go somewhere else. Even in a predominately democrat town there is probably still 40% republicans and this stupid lady has given them the impression that they are not liked, wanted, or welcome, so when a republican dad takes his democrat kids and grandchildren out to dinner guess where they won't be going.
then stalked them to another restaurant , called in a mob, and harassed them while they ate. The entire atrocious affair was due to Wilkinson’s hatred of the president.
So you support this kind of childish left wing behavior? She's almost as bad as wacky Maxine.
There used to be a day when people were civil with one another, even if their viewpoints differed. In the case of Wilkinson, this has been a lesson too late for the learning.
Funny thing is there was a guy named Wilkinson at the school I attended, and he was dumb as shit - probably the dumbest guy in the school. I wonder - could he have been a close relative?
"Grace," for all intensive purposes is gone with these people ..... if they ever had any in the first place.
Not a sudden change though. The concept has been slowly disappearing for decades.
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They are hoping it will blow over in 10 days. It won't. As soon as it opens again it will be bombarded with fake reservations and phone calls again. She will eventually try and apologize... but it will be too late by then. She will have to close this restaurant down. If she is ever able to open another one it will have to be under a different name in a few years
Fake News
All too real for the people this silly woman put out of work by her idiotic actions. As if kicking them out wasn't bad enough....
but "then stalked them to another restaurant , called in a mob, and harassed them while they ate. The entire atrocious affair was due to Wilkinson’s hatred of the president." Actions have consequences. At least the family didn't have their food spit into.
fake news - I don't believe anything that most republicans say. They worship liars and con artists. That alone makes anything they say suspect.
This is an excerpt from another article on the Red Hen, these are comments from neighboring businesses. " A few blocks away, Tracy Parker was gathering parts in his auto shop. The front of his Ballard & Parker Service Center was festooned with Trump banners, but Parker laughed when asked about the Red Hen incident. He didn’t much care about the restaurant owner’s politics, he said. It just didn’t make sense to him to turn away a paying customer.
“I have people come in here all the time with Obama stickers on their cars and I wouldn’t turn them away,” he said. “The lady next door” — he gestured over at the Rockbridge Music shop — “she’s all about Hillary Clinton. . . . But I’ve worked on her car for years. What can I say? It’s just a difference of opinion.”
Diana Schofield, the owner of the music shop, laughed when told of Parker’s comment. “I give him hell all the time about those signs,” she said. “But those are great guys over there. They work hard all the time.”
I don't think it had anything to do with her political affiliation but had more to due with the fact that Sanders will on a daily basis lie to the American people on behalf of the president without any perceived remorse or conflict of conscious. The Owner based on the her own opinion of the person and the persons actions decided she did not want such a person patronizing her establishment.
oh please, go peddle your distraction somewhere else, do you ever actually have anything of value to say?
Shall we not forget the business that denied service to Joe Biden the Vice President of the USA and was herald a hero amongst the conservatives yet this person is now somehow a pariah.
What about Hillary's and Obama's lies. What Trump lies are you talking about. If he lies so much, why do you listen to him.
But what about....what are you 8 years old. This whataboutism crap is getting old. How about actually trying to discuss how people are wrong about Trump instead of deflecting to the squirrel in the corner....because you cant and you and everyone else knows it but you would rather stick your fingers in your ears and go naa, naa, naaa, but Johnny did it also how come he isn't in trouble.
You cannot continue to compare previous presidents or candidates to the monstrosity which is Trump, none of them lied or misrepresented themselves and the issues even a 10th as much as the current Admin and when it did happen there was plenty of Dems calling them out. Most of the crap about Hillary and Obama the right have issue with is propaganda, blown out of context or conspiracy theory.
maybe it is not always about political views but is framed that way to the masses, we do not know this woman and can only speculate, but her own words say otherwise as she denied service because she believes Sanders to be a horrible person and does not want that negativity in her place of business.
I personally could care less about political affiliation and look at each person and how they act as an individual to determine my like or dislike for them.
Whataboutism is indeed getting old. Please see the 2nd paragraph in comment 9.1.2 .
The photo op is only half the story and understandable that a non supporter would not want to be photographed with him, but Biden and his team were not only denied a photo op but were also denied service as the owner would not even sell them a cookie.
well its a close one but the difference is it is a direct and equal event that occurred and the reaction is completely opposite from both sides so I am really interested in what has changed and how do these instances differ that cause the different reactions.
Also a infrequent use, as in the first time I have used an equal reference as comparison is not what is tired and old, but the constant every other post on every article is.
So right before you said this you said....
Lmao.
Yeah I can see how being used as a photo op is the same thing. /sarc
You have a link to that? I can't seem to find it.
I could understand if women and children were in the store though. Who would want pervert groper Joe Biden in your store molesting the customers.
And when her lips didn't move and she was quiet
If I owned a restaurant that anyone from the Trump administration entered, I'd serve them. One bowl of clam chowder, cumming up. Shit, if I were Sarah Sanders, I'd be afraid to eat anywhere.
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That is chilling. Really scary stuff. We are all quaking in our boots.
That's nice .... keep up the good work!
I would take this story with a huge grain of salt folks.
This is the source of this story and, then it was reported again by FAUX Noise.
Where did CBS add this part to the story?
As I said, the source for this seed is to be taken with a grain of salt.
If you don't want to believe that part, I really don't care.
No one has proved it wrong or denied it happened....suit yourself.
The owner has resigned from the business group as reported in the seed.
You where given a source...if you don't like it...too bad for you.
Bugger off with your nonsense.
Try this:
Oh no are you saying CNN is fake news?
Who mentioned Hillaryious crusty Hillary?
What is all the fuss about, a vote was taken after all .. I am guessing there was not much room for dissention within this voting body - or perhaps they were influenced by the Russians and were hypnotized into voting for the removal of the Sanders family? Someone quick check Facebook, it should have the answers.
I support a businesses right to refuse service .. they are the ones that suffer the consequences of their decisions and did not build it themselves anyways, so what do they have to lose? - I wish the Red Hen luck for the future ……….. let the law suits begin (?)
Yep … def time for all to live by their own convictions - what possibly could go wrong?
The left’s minds have become so narrow that they believe only a Nazis could disagree with them and, therefore, they are justified in essentially acting like Nazis themselves. There is no longer a need for civil discourse. Just shout your opponent down. Hound and harass them until they (and their family members) won’t dare be seen in public. Hound them at their homes. Refuse to serve them in businesses. The left has literally unhinged itself to become the very thing they claim to hate.
What’s sad is that they’re too stupid or deranged to see that they’re provoking people to retaliate in kind, where we descend into tribalism and close our doors to each other. The greatest nation on earth will fall as we prove that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Exactly.
Break out the Brown shirts for all the crybabies.
They still can't get over the fact that the chosen one, Hillaryious crusty old bitch Hillary lost.
Obviously we need to invest in more safe spaces and coloring books.
"While the extended shutdown will cost the employees and owners significantly, the decision to kick the Sanders family out of the restaurant was come to by a vote."
Nothing like "Employee's" voting to possibly hurt themselves.
They'll be on "Welfare" soon. Thank Goodness for Welfare and food stamps ! More helps the "Stupid" than the actual needy.
Reminds me of the "Liberal Kiddies" voting to protest at schools to take rights away from themselves.
It's a Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy world !
what's a day without a proper meme?
I've seen that one. Hits the nail on the head.....Mega Times !
Maybe they should call the place "The Red Chicken". Even Jack Philips had the guts to stay open and he had stories of people coming in to threaten him and his family.
She is reaping what she has sown and in doing so has let down all the employees who count on her for a living.
What’s the problem with conservatives who are apparently appalled when a restaurant refuses to serve some of the public faces of the Trump Administration like Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Kirstjen Nielsen?
After all, do these Trump surrogates not regularly express, what to many Americans, are political and philosophical tenets offensive to their ethical, moral, or, even religious beliefs?
Why should any entrepreneur be compelled to serve a meal … or, say, bake a cake … for any individual or entity that offends his/her delicate (i.e.) religious or spiritual sensibilities?
Oh the hypocrisy!
I didn't know the owner was being shunned by the locals. That's awesome.
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