EXCLUSIVE: 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, Fox News had learned.
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 and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only.
‘I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry and my city … is going through right now.’
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 who rents a chair from me contacted me Sunday night,” Kious said.
A screengrab of the text message she received from one of her stylists, and obtained by Fox News, said: “I’ll be there at 2:45 tomorrow. Pelosi assistant just messaged me to do her hair.”
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 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.
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 go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From 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.”
Asked for comment, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill maintained that the speaker was following the rules.
“The speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements,” he said.
But the owner pushed back.
Kious said Pelosi received a wash and a blow-dry, but told Fox News that “you’re not supposed to blow dry hair” according to coronavirus safety precautions for hair salons.
“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,” Kious said.
“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.”
She added: “The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face.”
Kious told Fox News that she had expected to be able to reopen her salon in July, and prepared her space in accordance with local guidelines.
“There were rules and regulations to go by to safely reopen, which I did, but I was still not allowed to open my business,” she said, noting that she installed plexiglass partitions between sinks and seating areas, and ensured that all salon chairs were six feet apart, along with proper air circulation from open windows.
“They never let us open,” she said, while adding that she is unable to reopen outside because her salon specializes in hair color, and using chemicals outside is prohibited.
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 right now.”
Kious told Fox News that she was a recipient of a $12,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan, which was created to help small businesses stay afloat amid the pandemic under the bipartisan CARES Act (which Pelosi backed), but still is forced to shut down her salon for good within the next 30 to 60 days.
“No one can last anymore,” she said. “I have also lost 60 percent of my clientele because everyone is fleeing the city.”
Kious said that the area where her salon is located has turned into “a third world country,” saying that “every other storefront is completely vacant and shut down and boarded up.”
“And because of the shutdown, and the store closures, we’ve lost people, my clients, and my employees, and that is due to the politics in San Francisco,” she said, adding that the homeless population is “everywhere” and “defecating” all over the city.
“It has gotten so extreme,” she said. “It is so night and day from what it was a year ago, that everyone is fleeing.”
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It’s duplicitous and deceitful shit like this that would give Trump a landslide if the election was held tomorrow. Let’s see what he can do to fuck this up.
Not when the entire machinery is poised to help the demoncrats steal it.
SanFranNan said “rules are for thee, not for me”.
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
The salon owner really needs to get on board with the rule of law in 2020 America. In other words, the laws only apply to the dirt people. The cloud people can do whatever they want.
With that being said, I am proud of one thing my governor, Kate Brown did after she closed barbers and salons in Oregon at the start of the pandemic. Kate actually suffered like the rest of us. At every news conference more and more gray hair was showing through on her head and her hair was looking kinda ratty, like she did it herself. I don’t like much about Kate Brown but she did live by the same rules as she made everyone else live by in this case.
Now I suppose if Pelosi didn’t get her hair and make-up done professionally everyone would run out of the Senate screaming. Actually, that probably would not be such a bad thing.
Fuck them. Fuck all of them. Every last one. Burn it all down to the fucking ground.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
Her district keeps re-electing her. Whose job is it to change that?
Maybe in November. She’s being challenged by a pair of Republican candidates, John Dennis and DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero.
Up to you California. Do it for the rest of the country.
Her district of derelicts LOVES her.
Nobody should be focusing on the hypocrisy. That is irrelevant. Consider this evidence that the COVID-19 response is complete political bullshit with no medical or scientific basis.
Fuck law. Naked power is the only way to roll.
All I can think about is tar, feathers, stocks then lamposts.
Millstones, rope, and deep bodies of water if you may.
Think of the water pollution, Winnie! Think of the poor fish! Oh the toxicity!
And yet another show of the Left’s stunning hypocrisy: a slimy political boss (from J. Quinn’s favourite big shitty, Philthydelphia,) and fellow Demoncrat:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philadelphia-mayor-apologizes-after-viral-photo-shows-him-dining-indoors-in-maryland-despite-city-ban/ar-BB18BVti
Shows who’s really in charge, Lumpen.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/chicago_mayor_lightfoot_takes_hypocrisy_to_a_new_level.html
Funny the timing of these related stories.
It’s almost like the script is being scripted.
Bet she voted straight DEM for years. Why else would Pelosi go to her place, like she would patronize a republican owned salon?
… and will again.
Oh she needs to be wearing something around her neck alright.
Newsom just debuted a “color-coded” system to further confuse the situation over what biz is allowed and what’s not. As a result, I pulled into my gym today and was met at the door by one of the gals. They can open, but all the exercise must be outside, which means draggin all the equipment into the parking lot, where it gets up to 115 on a hot day. She said they would try it tomorrow. Newsom is such an idiot, just beggin’ for heat strokes!
What a waste of time, material and equipment. Like putting perfume on a pig. Nothing could improve the looks of that bug eyed, withered old moon bat. The beautician should have told her, shit, bitch I ain’t no miracle worker.
She’s definitely living proof that politics is just show business for ugly people. Double brown bag that old hag.
The speaker of the house can get room service. I smell a rat.
Shit throwing monkeys here on TPB and elsewhere are lapping this story up and asking for more.
This is a dirt-cheap way to waste another 24 to 48 hour news cycle as the inevitable approaches.
No comment necessary.
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill maintained that the speaker was following the rules.
“The speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements,” he said.
Who you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?
California is home to some of the finest real estate in the world. What better way to own it all than to trash the valuation with human misery, cause all that are able to vacate the locale and purchase the remainder for pennies on the mostly worthless dollar?