Passenger left shaking after Southwest forced her to cover pro-Biden sign because it is ‘offensive’

Airline forced passenger to cover up pro-Biden sign.

 

A Southwest Airlines passenger has been left disappointed after being forced to cover up a pro-Joe Biden sign as other passengers on the flight were “offended” by it.

 

Jenny Grondahl was in the process of boarding her Phoenix to San Diego flight when she was confronted by staff about a cardboard sign she was carrying that read: “Arizonenses Con Biden”.

 

Grondahl serves on the executive board of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), representing workers in California and Arizona. She also volunteered for the Biden campaign, and a friend had given her the sign for her work.

 

“I worked very hard to register Latino voters. … And Latinos showed up, Arizona went blue,” she said.

 

However, the Southwest staff did not care much for Grondahl’s affection for the President, asking her to cover the sign as other passengers were offended by it.

 

“I’m looking around at the gate, and I’m thinking, how many of you was it — 20 out of 110 people? And how offended were you? What did you say? How could people have such a visceral reaction to seeing the name of our president on a sign?” Grondahl said.

 

“It’s in Spanish. I just looked around, and I thought about humanity in general. How devastatingly horrible that someone saw a name, or a different language, on a sign that I’m carrying, and stood in line to complain to the airline staff to the point that they then had to come complain to me, and asked me not to bring this on board?”

 

The airline staff also told Grondahl, who found herself physically shaking due to being confronted, that if she’d been wearing a Biden t-shirt, she’d have been asked to turn it inside out.

 

“I’ve been a happy & loyal Southwest Air customer for more than a decade,” Grondahl said. “No longer the case as of Friday.”

 

Southwest did not commented directly on how their policy applies in this situation, but spokesman Dan Landson said in a statement: “We pride ourselves on providing a welcoming, comfortable, and safe environment for all Customers and Employees regardless of political beliefs.

 

“We’re in conversations with the Customer to address her concerns and we hope to welcome her back on a future Southwest flight.”