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Default Tourism still suffering after The Red Hen denied Sanders

On 9/3/2018 8:04 PM, A big F*CK YOU for liberals wrote:
> Thanks Stephanie Wilkinson!
>
> LEXINGTON, Va. €” A small town in Virginia is trying to recover
> its image after The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve
> President Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
>
> The Roanoke Times reported Sunday that a regional tourism board
> is pulling together emergency funds to boost its digital
> marketing campaign.
>
> Normally that money is saved. But officials agreed the region is
> in desperate need of positive coverage.
>
> The tourism board serves Lexington, where The Red Hen is
> located, and other communities that are about three hours from
> Washington.
>
> The Red Hen incident in June prompted thousands of a calls and
> emails to the tourism office. They're still coming in. The
> office received a letter on Thursday from a Georgia family that
> wrote to say it would never return because of what happened.


<chuckle> What bullshit. The region's tourism is not suffering due to
that incident.