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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
Brooke SingmanBy Brooke Singman | Fox News
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.
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 has 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.
PELOSI ANNOUNCES CORONAVIRUS MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED IN HOUSE CHAMBER
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
President Trump reacted in a tweet Wednesday: "Crazy Nancy Pelosi is
being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are
closed, and for not wearing a Mask - despite constantly lecturing
everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send
Nancy packing!"
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.
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 as presented to her.
“The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID
requirements. 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. The Speaker complied with the rules as presented
to her by this establishment,” he said.
But the owner pushed back.
CALIFORNIA HAIR SALONS STRUGGLING WITH SECOND CORONAVIRUS CLOSING
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.
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: SALON OWNER JAILED FOR VIOLATING CORONAVIRUS
SHUTDOWN ORDER SPEAKS OUT
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.”
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on
Twitter at @BrookeSingman.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face
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
Brooke SingmanBy Brooke Singman | Fox News
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.
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 has 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.
PELOSI ANNOUNCES CORONAVIRUS MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED IN HOUSE CHAMBER
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
President Trump reacted in a tweet Wednesday: "Crazy Nancy Pelosi is
being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are
closed, and for not wearing a Mask - despite constantly lecturing
everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send
Nancy packing!"
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.
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 as presented to her.
“The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID
requirements. 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. The Speaker complied with the rules as presented
to her by this establishment,” he said.
But the owner pushed back.
CALIFORNIA HAIR SALONS STRUGGLING WITH SECOND CORONAVIRUS CLOSING
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.
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: SALON OWNER JAILED FOR VIOLATING CORONAVIRUS
SHUTDOWN ORDER SPEAKS OUT
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.”
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on
Twitter at @BrookeSingman.