Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it 'slap in the face'

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Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’​

‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says​

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Video footage shows Pelosi at San Francisco salon appointment​

WATCH: Security footage shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting a San Francisco hair salon, despite local rules keeping salons closed amid coronavirus. Pelosi is seen moving about the salon without a face covering.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic…

In security footage obtained by Fox News, and timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, the California powerhouse is seen walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose.

The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her wearing a black face mask.

Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March…
‘I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry and my city … is going through right now.’

— Salon owner Erica Kious
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Salon owner Erica Kious, in a phone interview with Fox News on Tuesday, shared details of Pelosi’s visit. Kious explained she has independent stylists working for her who rent chairs in her salon.

“One of the stylists…contacted me Sunday night,” Kious said.

A screengrab of the text message she received . . .

Kious replied: “Pelosi?”…

A text message from a hairstylist to Erica Kious, salon owner, that he would open the salon to provide House Speaker Nancy Pelosi services.

. . “I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do?”…

Kious cast Pelosi’s visit as a double standard.

“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can…adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (. . . the footage, it appears Pelosi had some kind of covering around her neck.)

“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious said. “It is just disturbing.”. .

. . . “We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I . . . a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” . . .

“I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen,” she explained. “I am a single mom, I have two small children, and I have no income.”…

. . . But Kious said she is not alone in the hardships she has faced amid closures during the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is for everybody,” she said. “I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry, and my city, what every small business is going through…”

…she . . . is forced to shut down her salon for good within the next 30 to 60 days.

“No one can last anymore,” she said. . . . “because everyone is fleeing the city.” . . .
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Now that we’re all using Zoom, we have to look good. C’mon @Cathoholic, what is somebody like Nancy Pelosi suppose to do?! Everybody uses black market hair stylists after all…
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ill-banned/ar-BB18CSck?ocid=anaheim-ntp-feeds

This coming from the Washington Post. I am a bit surprised there is no spin on this one. Hopefully one day Democrats will finally see that those in power have no intentions of ever following the rules they set for the masses. They never have and never will.
Speaker Pelosi has pushed policies that would keep our economy closed and our small businesses shut down. But for herself?” Senate Republicans tweeted. “A salon visit whenever she pleases.”
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“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News. “We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t — it’s a feeling — a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down.”
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Pelosi’s visit to the salon comes days after she wrote to Senate Democrats saying that Republicans are to blame for a slowdown in reopening because they don’t “listen to the scientists.” She added that Republicans “are rejecting the funding needed for testing and tracing to crush the virus and safely reopen schools and the economy.”
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Interesting. In my city, salons are allowed to be open, but we have to wear face masks even when getting hair washed. No blow drying either.
 
I see this as an “elite” problem, not a political problem, as in a Republican would never do this.

Yes, people flout rules. Yes, people are sometimes contradictory in their actions.

She shouldn’t have done this. I’m not all upset about it, though.
 
PaulinVA said:
I see this as an “elite” problem, not a political problem, as in a Republican would never do this.
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This is exactly right. This is what happens when too much power is concentrated in too few hands. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The problem with Pelosi and the left is they are all in favor of increasing central government power.
 
JonNC said:
This is exactly right. This is what happens when too much power is concentrated in too few hands. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Annnnnd, we agree!
JonNC said:
The problem with Pelosi and the left is they are all in favor of increasing central government power.
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Right now, we are confronted with a party that thinks big government can solve anything, and a party that has ceded everything to a wanna-be autocrat.

A pox on both their houses.
 
But Hammill’s comments acknowledged Pelosi and her staff had relied on the interpretation of someone at the salon about what was allowed by new city regulations — that had just gone into effect Friday — and that the person was incorrect.

“This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,” Hammill said. “The speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.”

Pelosi’s staff said the speaker has a regular stylist who typically goes to Pelosi’s house to do her hair. But that person was not available on Monday so referred Pelosi’s staff to a stylist at eSalon because it is where Pelosi’s regular stylist used to work.
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Kious told Fox News that stylists in her salon are independent and rent chairs, and that it was one of her independent stylists who told Kious that she was planning to do Pelosi’s hair on Monday.
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So Kious knew this was going to happen
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do?” Kious told Fox News, while noting that she “can’t control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as “they’re not paying” at this time.
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That is a big Cop Out. YOU OWN THE STORE.

Sounds more like Kious was looking for his/her 15 minutes of fame via Fox News.
 
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RidgeSprinter said:
That is a big Cop Out. YOU OWN THE STORE.
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Yes.

To me it reads like, “How could Nancy come to my salon and get her hair done?!?”

Deal with the stylist who had her come.

It’s not like Nancy pulled up and said, “Open up! I demand a hairstyle now! I’m the speaker of the house so you better comply!! Mwah mwah mwah!!!”
 
PaulinVA said:
Right now, we are confronted with a party that thinks big government can solve anything, and a party that has ceded everything to a wanna-be autocrat.
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What do you mean by a wanna-be autocrat?
I assume you are speaking about Trump?
Where did he say he believes in autocracy?
What specifically has he done that is autocratic?
 
 
I started with the Guardian
One of Trump’s three rallying cries on the campaign trail – one of the three apparent components of making America great again – was “Drain the swamp” (the other two were “Lock her up” and “Build that wall”). It may have sounded like a call to battle against corruption, but it was in fact a declaration of war against the American system of government as currently constituted.
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This reflects the Orange Man Bad conspiracy of the left, but it doesn’t answer my questions.
Where did he say he believes in autocracy?
What specifically has he done that is autocratic?
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Here is a definition of autocracy:
  • Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
  • A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
Please specifically identify where he has ruled as president in this way, or stated that he even wants to.

Incidentally, the previous president did state such a desire. He said he would rule with his pen and phone. That was a statement of autocratic desires.
 
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PaulinVA said:
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JonNC:
Please specifically identify where he has ruled as president in this way, or stated that he even wants to.
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“Then, I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said. “But I don’t even talk about that.”

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/donald-trump-pardon-tweet/index.html
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“He has no intention of pardoning himself.” Giuliani told ABC’s “This Week.” “It would be an open question. I think it would probably get answered by gosh, that’s what the Constitution says, and if you want to change it, change it. But yes.”
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WAPO has a pay wall, and I wouldn’t give them one red cent.

As for CNN;
“He has no intention of pardoning himself.” Giuliani told ABC’s “This Week.” “It would be an open question. I think it would probably get answered by gosh, that’s what the Constitution says, and if you want to change it, change it. But yes.”
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Apparently there are differing opinions, but it is not proof he wants to be or has acted as an autocrat.

Again, the definition of autocracy:
  • Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
  • A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
Does he have or has he acted as an autocrat?
Has he stated that he wants to run the country as an autocrat?

Has he:
Disbanded Congress or the courts?
Has he closed state governments?
Which opponents has he had arrested, jailed or killed?

If you oppose his expansion of executive powers, we can discuss that in light of 100 years of progressive attempts to do just that, and I’ll agree.
For leftists (not you) to accuse autocracy is laughable hypocrisy.
 
RidgeSprinter said:
Speaking to a crowd of young conservatives at a Turning Point USA conference in the nation’s capital, Trump on Tuesday said, “Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
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It makes him sound like a progressive, to be sure, like he has a pen and a phone.
 
RidgeSprinter after making excuses for Nancy Pelosi ignoring salon closures and mask mandates . . .
Sounds more like Kious was looking for his/her 15 minutes of fame via Fox News.
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PaulinVA said:
I see this as an “elite” problem, not a political problem, as in a Republican would never do this.

Yes, people flout rules. Yes, people are sometimes contradictory in their actions.

She shouldn’t have done this. I’m not all upset about it, though.
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The problem I would have is this: Is there a penalty / fine / punishment others have incurred doing the same thing? If so, Pelosi should incur the same.
 
In my small area, we can get hair cuts and have been able to since around June. We have to wear masks and last time I got my hair cut, the hairdresser combed my mask off. We just laughed. I would think that with her money, Nancy Pelosi could have had someone come in and do her hair at home. It’s pretty evident that she is getting a colorist in.
She’s living proof that ‘all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’
 
KMC said:
The problem I would have is this: Is there a penalty / fine / punishment others have incurred doing the same thing? If so, Pelosi should incur the same.
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I know neither of you mean it this way, but that sounds like if there’s no penalty, she really didn’t do anything wrong. Wink wink nod nod
 
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