As reported by AJR| Sarah Sanders and her family were recently kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia because she works for the POTUS.
Ben Cline, the Virginia State congressman, apologized for the rude treatment of the Sanders family while they were at the Red Hen restaurant. The congressman also explained that the owner of the restaurant, Sarah Wilkinson, is Meryl Streep’s cousin.
This sure explains a lot, especially because Streep thinks Harvey Weinstein is “god” and she loves the pedophile, Roman Polanski.
Let’s all just say goodbye to the Red Hen now… I guess business was good while it lasted.
Via 100percentfedup:
The Washington Post interviewedStephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant, who kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family out for holding political views Ms. Wilkinson finds abhorrent. The expressed hypocrisy is typical of the progressive worldview.
Apparently, Ms. Wilkinson was not at the restaurant at the time, her staff called her at home asking what they should do. Wilkinson told the Washington post “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.”
Several Red Hen employees are gay, she said. They knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from the military. This month, they had all watched her evade questions and defend a Trump policy that caused migrant children to be separated from their parents.
[…] “Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,” Wilkinson told her staff, she said. “They said ‘yes.’ ”
[…] she walked up to the press secretary’s chair.
“I said, ‘I’m the owner,’ ” she recalled, ” ‘I’d like you to come out to the patio with me for a word.’ ”
They stepped outside, into another small enclosure, but at least out of the crowded restaurant.
“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,” Wilkinson said. “I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.
“I said, ‘I’d like to ask you to leave.’ ” Sanders’s response was immediate, Wilkinson said: ” ‘ That’s fine. I’ll go.’ ”
[…] Wilkinson had no regrets about her decision.
“I would have done the same thing again,” she said “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”
As she headed out the door to a weekend Main Street festival she had helped organize, she sounded hopeful that the Red Hen could open for business as usual Saturday night. Yes, she had seen calls for #MAGA protests on Facebook. “But this is a small enough town, and we’re known,” she said optimistically. “This is not going to be a giant surprise to anyone.”
Meanwhile, the Red Hen’s disgusting and rude treatment of Sarah Sanders left Lexington, VA resident scratching their heads and offering apologies to the press secretary.
VA State Congressman Ben Cline apologized to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, tweeting: “On behalf of his hometown of Lexington, for the rudeness of one liberal New York transplant (who also happens to be Meryl Streep’s cousin).” Cline continued, “We hope you will come back and enjoy our area’s true southern hospitality.”
Ben Cline✔@Cline4Virginia
On behalf of my hometown of Lexington, I want to apologize for the rudeness of one liberal New York transplant (who also happens to be Meryl Streep’s cousin). We hope you will come back and enjoy our area’s true southern hospitality.
Sarah Sanders✔@PressSec
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
US Congressman Bob Goodlatte tweeted: “What @PressSec experienced in Lexington last night is very unfortunate and doesn’t reflect accurately upon the kind and caring people of Lexington that I know. There are many great and innovative businesses in #VA06 that I hope you’ll come back to visit.”
Bob Goodlatte✔@RepGoodlatte
What @PressSec experienced in Lexington last night is very unfortunate and doesn’t reflect accurately upon the kind and caring people of Lexington that I know. There are many great and innovative businesses in #VA06 that I hope you’ll come back to visit.
Sarah Sanders✔@PressSec
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
This will not end well for the Wilkerson family, their business interests, or the employees who found their tender sensibilities too triggered by the appearance of a Trump supporter in their restaurant.
The intersection of business and politics is littered with the carcasses of failed enterprise who made similar decisions. The NFL, Macy’s, Starbucks, Target, etc. The list is long and the stupid is strong. Never underestimate the ability of a public business to destroy itself. No policy is ever idiot-proof, merely idiot resistant; and there are always newer, bigger and more stupid idiots even in the sandwich business.
In the mind of a far-left progressive, they believe their insane political perspectives are the only views that matter. They consistently over-estimate their geographical support and find their need for superiority such that it affords them a bizarre moral right to force their positions upon others. – The Last Refuge
