Sarah Huckabee Sanders Asked To Leave Va. Restaurant Due to Career

[Priestiality]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-booted-667179

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Saturday that she was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant on Friday evening simply because she works for President Donald Trump.

"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," Sanders wrote on her official press secretary Twitter account. "Her actions say far more about her than about me."

Though the particulars of the incident could not be immediately confirmed, the tweet qualified as an uncommonly specific attack from an official White House account on a private business.

Owners of the Red Hen, which is located about 180 miles southwest of D.C., did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, on Friday night, Jaike Foley-Schultz, who described himself as a waiter at the Red Hen in Lexington, wrote on Facebook that he had just just served Sanders before she was asked to leave. Sanders did not mention family members in her account of the episode, but the post would seem to match what the press secretary tweeted Saturday.

"I just served Sarah huckabee sanders [sic] for a total of 2 minutes before my owner asked her to leave and she complied," Foley-Schultz wrote. "Her family left on their own accord, we didn't actually refuse service or 'kick her out.'"

Sanders would not have been the first member of the Trump administration to experience grief in public for their work.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner at MXDC, a Mexican restaurant in Washington, was interrupted by protesters from the Democratic Socialists of America on Tuesday, who shouted at her "shame" and "If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace." Other demonstrators chanted outside her Virginia townhouse on Friday morning. In both instances, Nielsen was singled out for her defense of the administration's zero tolerance immigration policy that resulted in the separations of some migrant families.

Sanders' predecessor, Sean Spicer, was confronted at an Apple store in the D.C. area in March 2017 by a woman who asked him: "How does it feel to work for a fascist?" Other Trump staffers told POLITICO Magazine that they are sometimes the object of obscene gestures when leaving the White House grounds.

In her statement about being asked to leave from Red Hen in Lexington — which is not affiliated with the D.C. establishment of the same name — Sanders said she would not treat someone with whom she disagreed in a similar manner.

"I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so," she wrote on Twitter.

Mike Huckabee, Sanders' father, defended her on Twitter, saying "bigotry is on the menu" at the restaurant. Earlier Saturday, Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and now a conservative commentator, tweeted a photo, supposedly of MS-13 gang members, with the caption: "Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House."

However, Sanders has trashed reporters to their faces during the White House press briefings that are often aired on national television. For instance, during a back and forth with Jim Acosta on June 14, Sanders chided the veteran CNN reporter for pressing her on comments Attorney General Jeff Sessions made about the Bible and family separations.

"I know it's hard for you to understand even short sentences, I guess, but please don't take my words out of context," Sanders said.

I'm sure Republicans will have no problem with this because it was a private business and all.

[Ahhdurr]

I'm sure Republicans will have no problem with this because it was a private business and all.

The hypocrite shitposting Trump supports will be here soon enough.

[NoiseTank13]

Was it an all-you-can-eat buffet? Maybe they wanted to stay in business.

Also how dare private business owners dictate who get's their services.

[D Luniz]

they can claim "religious freedom"

You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

[nymphetsss]

Nothing wrong with it, i fully support the right to refuse service on any grounds

[Doctor Amadeus]

Hahahaha I love it, let it begin, I completely agree with this. I hope this catches on.

[Deleted]

Admittedly, this is an instance where I dislike the idea that anyone can be refused service on a service for any reason other than their actions in said place. It's like how I don't believe that the two gay people shouldn't have been denied their cake. That being said SHS is a bitch and her getting mildly inconvenienced is objectively funny.

[draynay]

Man, that is the greatest free publicity, getting a Trump employee to name and shame you, that restaurant is gonna be booked solid.

[Travis B]

How dare they refuse service to someone for something within that person's control. Don't they know it's only okay to discriminate against people for things they can't control?

[Sunseeker]

How dare they refuse service to someone for something within that person's control. Don't they know it's only okay to discriminate against people for things they can't control?

HA. I loled harder than I should have.

Nah this is great, people have finally figured out how to nail Trump supporters on the personal level. Sure, shutting down the administration is a grand goal, but in the meantime, doing whatever we can to make their personal lives difficult is absolutely worth it.

[Raiju]

Admittedly, this is an instance where I dislike the idea that anyone can be refused service on a service for any reason other than their actions in said place. It's like how I don't believe that the two gay people shouldn't have been denied their cake. That being said SHS is a bitch and her getting mildly inconvenienced is objectively funny.

The gay people asked for a service the baker didn't do in that case - it's not really relevant to refusal of service.

If you ask any business for a service they don't sell you shouldn't be at all surprised if they say no.

[Travis B]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweet:

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

Amazing, even when she's off-the-clock, 2 out of her 3 sentences are complete lies.

[Sunseeker]

The gay people asked for a service the baker didn't do in that case - it's not really relevant to refusal of service.

If you ask any business for a service they don't sell you shouldn't be at all surprised if they say no.

Acting like putting two men on the top of a cake is a "special service" is the definition of absurdity.

[Bdatik]

The gay people asked for a service the baker didn't do in that case - it's not really relevant to refusal of service.

If you ask any business for a service they don't sell you shouldn't be at all surprised if they say no.

Wait... huh? Where did you get your information from?

[Doctor Amadeus]

Wish I knew people in near there, would buy them dinner, hell I am going to see if they have some T-Shirts.

[LaserSharkDFB]

Yeah, call it a hunch, but I'm pretty sure that it was less because she works for Trump and more because she's a dishonest condescending troll who gets paid to lie to the American people for Trump. I mean, just about anyone still working in the WH is complicit at this point, but Shucks... Shucks is special.

[Bdatik]

And in no time flat, Trump supports tank the businesses online reviews.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-red-hen-lexington-3

At least they're consistent in staying hypocritical.

[Priestiality]

Acting like putting two men on the top of a cake is a "special service" is the definition of absurdity.

It has nothing to do with "special service". It's a First Amendment issue. The couple was not denied service entirely. They were free to buy anything in the store, he just refused to make them a custom cake, due to his religious beliefs. The act of creating art, in this case a custom cake, is no different from speaking, writing, singing. It would be compelled speech to force him to utilize his creativity in a way he doesn't personally agree with. While you and a lot of people on both sides dislike the decision for completely different reasons, (the far left because he wasn't forced to express something he doesn't agree with and the far right because it didn't allow free reign to discriminate against the LGBTQ community), but the court got this one right.

EDIT for Clarity: If he had a pre-made wedding cake they would have been more than capable of buying it and decorating it themselves, therefore, they were not illegally discriminated against.

[Sky High]

being employed by the president isn't a protected class, soooo yeah, bugger off Sanders.

[Sunseeker]

It has nothing to do with "special service". It's a First Amendment issue. The couple was not denied service entirely. They were free to buy anything in the store, he just refused to make them a custom cake, due to his religious beliefs. The act of creating art, in this case a custom cake, is no different from speaking, writing, singing. It would be compelled speech to force him to utilize his creativity in a way he doesn't personally agree with. While you and a lot of people on both sides dislike the decision for completely different reasons, (the far left because he wasn't forced to express something he doesn't agree with and the far right because it didn't allow free reign to discriminate against the LGBTQ community), but the court got this one right.

The court didn't rule on a Free Speech basis you dip.

The Court ruled on an unequal enforcement of the law issue. They ruled State of Colorado disproportional enforced the law against those who were refusing service on religious grounds than those who were refusing service on non-religious grounds.

The Court DID NOT rule that "free speech" includes the ability to discriminate against potential customers on the basis of your religion.

The Court only "got this right" because the State of Colorado dun fucked up.