Sarah Huckabee Sanders booted from Virginia restaurant

written by Jeanine Martin June 23, 2018

On Friday evening the manager of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington Virginia asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave because she works for President Trump. She politely left. Sanders said in a tweet following the incident,

I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so,”

The tweet had 22,000 responses in the first hour.

Sander’s father former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee also responded on his Twitter page, from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Bigotry. On the menu at Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington VA. Or you can ask for the ‘Hate Plate,'” Huckabee said in a tweet, quickly generating 2,000 replies in about 30 minutes. “And appetizers are ‘small plates for small minds.'”

Ben Cline, candidate for Congress in the 6th district, also responded on Twitter,

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.

New Yorkers, that explains a great deal about what transpired.

More here and here.

Jeanine Martin

Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.

Troublemaker

Some of us ex-New Yorkers are really nice people. And Republicans. But, I repeat myself 🙂
- AnninVA26
  
  My son went to college in Ithaca, NY and you cannot find nicer people any where. We always enjoyed our visits up there. I do appreciate the fact that you vote republican, because some people from the northeast don’t quite understand the connection between why they’re leaving and how they vote.
  - Jeanine Martin
    
    Perhaps it’s because the majority of New Yorkers vote Democrat.
    - AnninVA26
      
      I agree. If you see the red/blue map of NY, the areas outside NYC, Albany, and the far west are all red. Unfortunately, not enough people in the red areas to make the difference.
  - Troublemaker
    
    Upstate NY and the NYC area are very different. Much like inside the beltway VA is very different from the real Virginia. I suspect that is behind the move to divide CA into thirds as their coastal population is very different from their inland population.
    - Warmac9999
      
      Oregon was once conservative. We don’t need more leftist senators.
    - AnninVA26
      
      The move I saw was to divide it into 3 states, each with a particularly liberal urban area. That would mean 4 more liberal US Senators….no thank you.
      - Troublemaker
        
        Ouch! Thanks for the analysis. I hadn’t looked into it and made an improper guess.
- ameri…canwork
  
  At the age of 18 right out of High School I went to work for a man from upstate NY building Snyder Hunt Apartment Complexes all over Virginia who had moved here to Va when he was 18.
  He was and still is one tough man with do it yourself personality and a work ethic second to none I wouldn’t trade those 9 years and the influence he instilled in me for anything!
  Awsome man, I’ve never shaken a hand so course and would split open every winter.
- DJRippert
  
  Yes, in fact I think there’s a New Yorker in the White House at the moment. New York is a big place with a lot of people. Conservatives should avoid falling into the snowflake tendency of categorizing people based on where they were born.
  
  Wish I could write more by our local Deplorables Chapter is having a guns and religion festival.
Sailblazer

Meet the small-minded owners. They have certainly put Lexington on the map. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2f71ca5ca721734c0b8e7a6d17eeb8d8a004cfd24a569d583052736b647809c2.jpg
- Warmac9999
  
  And, she has other businesses in Lexington that could certainly use a bit of competition.
- DJRippert
  
  I am with you guys on this. However, unless that kid in the middle is an owner too and an adult you have no business posting his picture.
- Stonewall Jackson
  
  Those are some pajama boy beta males…
mezurak

They would probably decline a transfusion from a hillbilly because the donor might have voted for Trump.
- Reagan George
  
  We need to be boycotting a lot more than the Red Hen. At least it is a good place to start. Leftists try to ignore the laws of economics, boycotts are a great way to remind them that capitalism is a hard task master.
  - Juliane Thurston
    
    I don’t know about others, but there are numerous companies I don’t do business with because their values conflict with mine (Bath and Body Works, for example) But it’s less about trying to run someone out of business and more about not contributing to abortion, etc.
    - Warmac9999
      
      I no longer do business with Target and when I go out for fast food it is Chic.
AnninVA26

Lexington, VA…home of Washington and Lee and VMI. Do these people have enough customers to stay in business? My guess is that they won’t from now on.
- Jeanine Martin
  
  It’s a rather Republican area. If all Republicans boycott the restaurant, you are right, they won’t stay in business.
  - AnninVA26
    
    basic capitalist economics.
  - John Massoud
    
    Lexington trends Democratic but Rockbridge is very Republican. They’ll get a few more customers short term and then be in serious trouble within a few weeks
cwtrau

Let’s give the Left as good as they give. Anyone in the vicinity of the restaurant should walk up and down the public sidewalk/roadway in front of the Red Hen with signage: “Boycott the Red Hen!” “Red Hen belongs in Red Square!” Have fun and be sure to report back!
- Warmac9999
  
  No Food. Get booed.
  NY loved you. Time to go back.
  No MAGA for you.
- AnninVA26
  
  around here in Goochland County, your car could get keyed if you sport a Trump or Brat sticker. Our campaign signs disappear, too. I don’t advocate vandalism, but the reaction to difference in opinion is rather stark.
Warmac9999

As far as I am concerned, a business ought to have a right to refuse anyone for any reason. However, there should always be a consequence for such an act, and those consequences shouldn’t just be legal. These restaurant owners should rightfully suffer the loss of their business – and, I suspect, the community of Lexington,VA will be less hospitable as this an embarrassment to the community as a whole.

It is important to note that the restaurant business is quite competitive and the loss of customers because of politics is stupid. The owners somehow fail to appreciate that they have likely served far worse people than Sarah – they just didn’t know it.
- AnninVA26
  
  I completely agree. Private businesses should be able to do what they want (wedding cake for gay wedding). If people don’t like that, don’t frequent that business. Capitalism will take care of the rest.
- Jeanine Martin
  
  In Lexington at least half of their customers must be Republican. This will destroy their business.
  - Warmac9999
    
    And all those employees will be put out of work thanks to this owner. She supposedly consulted the employees before this happened but my guess is this is just a self righteous cover story. She acted upon personal pique and she must now suffer the consequences.
    - ameri…canwork
      
      Yea the poor local farmer she gets her beef from will suffer.
      - Warmac9999
        
        She really didn’t think about the consequences for her business, her employers, her suppliers or even her other customers. Stupid and selfish.
      - Col. Andrew Olson
        
        Evidence “she really didn’t think about the consequences”?
    - Juliane Thurston
      
      She was not at the restaurant when Sarah Sanders arrived.
      Her employees called her, she drove there, and together they made the decision. Together they can stand by the consequences.
      For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction…
      I would not have turned anyone away based on politics but they have a right to refuse service and others have a right not to patronize their establishment if they so choose.
      No need to get lawyers involved, just vote with your feet and move on…
      - Warmac9999
        
        You are the first to suggest lawyers. Everybody else on this site has suggested a capitalist and constitutional solution. Am guessing you think the baker was in the wrong.
        
        As far as employees making the decision, they are employed at the will of the owner and they certainly don’t want to lose their job by disagreeing with such an activist and likely emotional owner. If the chef called, as is alleged, then there is a big story there. Exactly what axe did he have to grind – illegal or gay comes to mind.
        
        I kind of wonder how these employees will feel when the place closes and they have difficulty getting a job. I wouldn’t want to have on my resume chef or waitress at the Red Hen because employers now check facebook and the news for references. Nobody wants an employee who can create trouble.
      - Juliane Thurston
        
        You guess wrong. The baker was well within her rights as is the restaurant owner, but this is not about the baker. “Vote with your feet” *is* the capitalist solution, which means “don’t patronize this business if you don’t like this turn of events” and note, because you somehow took “no need to involve lawyers” to somehow suggest I was advocating a legal and unconstitutional solution, you might need to revisit reading comprehension. It’s better to block for your own team than tackle them… which translates to don’t attack people who are essentially on the same team as you are. 🙂
      - Warmac9999
        
        I apologize for misunderstanding the intent of your post. I believe that capitalism is the solution and the word “lawyer” triggered my reaction as that always seems to be the go to solution other than more government.
        
        By the way, the owner of the Red Hen pursued the Huckabee family as they went to a different restaurant and organized a protest there. It is well beyond a normal response to a political disagreement. You can read the details on the Gateway Pundit.
- Ken Reid
  
  You forgot . You have to serve gays or they will sue you. But you can throw out anyone for their political beliefs or who they work for. Sad!
  - Warmac9999
    
    You do not have to serve gays; however, there will be consequences.
- ameri…canwork
  
  In business when being political always good to show disgust with both sides and make funnies about them.
  There is a Biscuit place in West Va. , they have a biscuit called the politician, it’s full of bologna.
  That’s how you do it.
  Have you seen the menu?
  To uppity for my taste anyway.
  Give me meat and heat, the greasyer the better.
  Bet Trump’s Va Winery brings in more $$$$.
  
  Someone could counter with a Restaurant called The Red, White and Blue Roster.
Andrew Nicholson

Instead of the ‘Red Hen’ they should rename the restaurant to the ‘Communist Chicken’.
- ameri…canwork
  
  Then she could sell tofu burgers and call them the Jane Fonda.
AnninVA26

All this sort of reminds me of a gay couple trying to force a baker to bake their Wedding Cake for them and fought it all the way to the Supreme Court.
- Troublemaker
  
  The beauty of capitalism is if you don’t like the attitude of a business, you move on to the next one.
  - AnninVA26
    
    Agree! That’s how the gay wedding cake/baker issue should have been solved. Why didn’t the couple just go to another baker? Seems almost too simple. Sarah Sanders will act appropriately and not do anything. Time will fix this.
    - Troublemaker
      
      Social Justice Warriors trying to change the world into a socialist “paradise” just like Cuba or the USSR
- Jeanine Martin
  
  This is different. The baker never kicked them out of his store. In fact he welcomed them, told they could have anything in the store and even offered to make them a different kind of cake. He just wouldn’t make them a wedding cake. He didn’t kick them out and refuse them service.
  - AnninVA26
    
    That’s a good point. However, the baker did refuse service for what they wanted.
    - Sailblazer
      
      Both the baker and the Red Hen’s owner should have that right. The big difference, is that the gay couple refused to respect the baker’s rights and decided that their situation demanded a federal case of discrimination.
      - Jeanine Martin
        
        Another difference was the baker did not refuse the gay couple service. The baker said they could have any cake in the store and he would bake them any kind of special cake, except a wedding cake. They were not told to get like Sarah Sanders was.
ameri…canwork

No thanks,
I’ll take biscuits and gravy for breakfast.
Toasted BLT for lunch
and good Ole Va ham with Beans and Cornbread
I still wear Wranglers over Levis

Va. Born, Va Bread and when I die I still be good Ole Va Red.
Jeanine Martin

While little Lexington city is dominated by Democrats, the county it sits in is very Republican, https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/Locality/ROCKBRIDGE%20COUNTY/Index.html
These folks are going to have a helluva time keeping their little Hen going.
- Warmac9999
  
  I am sure the word is spreading, and rather quickly.
  - Jeanine Martin
    
    I almost feel sorry for them. They had NO idea what the ramifications of their actions would be.
    - Warmac9999
      
      Act in haste. Repent at leisure.
    - John Massoud
      
      Not I.
      - Warmac9999
        
        Nor I. Too dangerous if you are a Republican and Trump supporter.
    - Rocinante
      
      They knew, they chose attention over self-interest.
      
      Who will want to patronize or do business with them now? As opposed to if they had treated people equally?
      
      In the future, what prominent, or even known Republican or Conservative is going to eat there?
      
      Most of us already should have food-tasters, but would any public Republican trust the secret sauce coming from the people that wouldn’t serve Sarah’s family?
      - ameri…canwork
        
        Now Roc,
        There are some American Subcontractors here in the Lynchburg area who won’t get near working for those other Contractors who use foreign labor.
        But then that is an American thing, be local employ local.
    - Juliane Thurston
      
      In today’s social media driven media climate I have to think they knew the word would get out, she seems rather proud of her “stand” against “evil”, lol. She overestimated the size of the liberal population and underestimated the widespread response of disgust over such a glaring, obtuse, purposeful lapse of hospitality and etiquette that flies in the face of traditional, and yes, southern values. One wonders why she left New York in the first place…
- DJRippert
  
  The first thing that should happen is that no Republican or independent small businessperson in the area sell or serve the asshats anything. No gas in their car, no food from the market, no beer at the bar. They should post a picture of her face in the windows of their establishment with block lettering saying, “NOT WELCOME HERE”. And if that pencil necked husband of hers wants to interfere, well, in the South – sometimes men need to step into the parking lot and settle things the old fashioned way.
  - Warmac9999
    
    Good idea. She is apparently well known so this would be easy to do.
DJRippert

Where are Little Timmy Kaine and Governor Quack Quack on this? The Commie Chicken’s owner may have been within her legal right to refuse service to somebody based on her occupation but how does this make Virginia look in the national eye? Meanwhile, protesters are hounding the Secretary of Homeland Security at her Alexandria townhouse. Virginia is for lovers? Seems more like Virginia is for asshats. Do Little Timmy and Gov Quack Quack think this is acceptable behavior? Is this their Virginia Way?
- Eric the half a troll
  
  Sarah got booted out of a restaurant because she shills for Trump?
  
  Womp, womp…
  - DJRippert
    
    Comrade! You have returned to blog. отлично!
    - Eric the half a troll
      
      Another day, another dollar, Comrade. Still making the world safe for tyranny, I see!!
    - ameri…canwork
      
      Sienfield;
      The “Soup Nazi”
      no soup for you two weeks!
    - Warmac9999
      
      He has been trolling around the edges of TBE, somehow seems to think his comments mean something.
      - Stonewall Jackson
        
        I blocked him. I don’t care to see his talking points.
Sailblazer

Fortunately for the rude owner of the Red Hen, there are lots of liberal haters around who will applaud her petty act of incivility.
ameri…canwork

Let’s be Bipartisan , let’s be fair;
Settle Immigrants in Lexington, Va
And
Republican Senator Steve Newman’s 23rd District.

Read;
Rogue Subcontractors Undermine Va’s Legal Workforce by Kenric Ward

Newman knows the deal, how many illegal aliens can you employ under one 1099?
Turbocohen

How about we march on The Red Hen with Trump signs and call a press conference?
cwtrau

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgeJt5DUEAAVwNw.jpg
Turbocohen

Tiki Torch Rally at the Red Hen.
- Warmac9999
  
  Excellent idea.
  - ameri…canwork
    
    Be careful someone here may post an image of the Stars and Bars , then another pic below with the young dumb white boys from Charlottesville.
Warmac9999

Bob Goodlatte has invited Sarah to come back to Lexington, VA. He said the unfortunate incident at the Red Hen doesn’t reflect the attitude and behaviors of most of the folks in his district. I hope she goes and gets treated royally.
Johnny J.

She will probably shut down, move to Charlottesville, (the Berkeley of the east), and open a new restaurant. She, in her new town will be celebrated by the Charlottesville natives, and hence, make a fortune.

Hate sells, especially among Democrats.
Taunami Joe

Was the business already headed down the toilet? Was this a brilliant move by the owner to get thousands of dollars in free advertising?

Probably, and look at how well it worked. This artcle does nothing but help that restaurant. I doubt anyone could find a seat in there since word got out just because of the crooked media’s free advertising. You just couldn’t resist the gotcha moment, Jeanine.

We got a media problem that is destroying this country. Write about that.
- Jeanine Martin
  
  The restaurant hasn’t been open since the event. Any publicity they have garnered has not been good.
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Former NYer

None of this means anything without a lawsuit for denial of services. That’s what any black or Muslim would do so why not a Christian? Conservative? Woman? So much for Liberals and their Women’s Rights agenda.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders booted from Virginia restaurant

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