Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee favors a plan by a tourism board to launch a campaign designed to bring visitors back to Lexington, Virginia after a local restaurant kicked out his daughter, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
His comments came during an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Morning with Maria” on Tuesday.
The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington had made national headlines in June when one of its co-owners asked Sanders and her family to leave after they arrived for dinner.
“Well, it is tragic that all those business owners are being hurt by the actions of one bigoted restaurant owner,” Huckabee said. “The Red Hen, I guess, is going to have a new menu – Bigot’s Breakfast, Leftists’ Lunch and Discrimination Dinner.
“But the tragedy is that you have all these other businesses there in Lexington, Virginia that are suffering because of the discrimination of one restaurant owner. I feel for those people and I hope they can rehab their image because it’s a beautiful community.
“They don’t deserve to all suffer because one person decided to take it upon themselves to throw someone out of a restaurant because she represents a political point of view…”
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