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
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 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.
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.
DID PELOSI PAY ???????
Can anyone still remember when Bill Clinton held up air Traffic at that Airport so he could get a Haircut? Remember Hairforce One?
“The rules are for proles”… “let them have bowl cuts”…
The way the law reads for hairdressers, some of them can do your wet (from home) hair outside on the street.
In the case of San Francisco’s district where Pelosi lives that means out on a cold street next to pooping, addicts who can shoot up right next to you.
But, that’s OK with Nancy P …….. for you proles.
Someone remind me… who is it that always says “No one is above the law”? Shouldn’t Nancy be working to get aid to these shop owners instead of forcing them to break the law to service her while they can’t open, are losing money and are going out of business?
Well, that’s just Democrats for you. That’s how socialism works. The people suffer while the ruling elite get everything and as much as they want.
@Spurwing Plover: I do. I worked at Love Field in Dallas and he used to do this on a regular basis.
It’s so common to socialism that they even have a name for these people in enough power to have their own power, privilege and security: Nomenklatura.
Nomenklatura are a de facto elite of public powers.
They held various key positions.
They were all “party” members.
Nancy fits that to a “T.”
Well, the hairburner knew the rules and chose to ignore them. He should be fired. He blatantly lied saying they could take one client at a time, isn’t true. The old hag that owns this place goes out of her way to video the event and sends it to FOX. All the time btiching about how she’s a single mom with two kids to feed. Honey, we all know why you’re single.
@David: They sent the video to Fox because Pelosi is a lying hypocrite. She can’t get someone to come to her home and fix her rotten hair? No, she just feels the rules and laws apply to people that aren’t the chosen elite, like her.
Who is her assistant who arranged the root coloring and blowout? Is it a taxpayer funded assistant?
We all know what is happening here particularly in democrat controlled state/cities etc. They are intentionally keeping the lockdowns in effect in order to destroy the economy and people.
@July 4th American: Pelosi has no excuse. She knows the rules; hell, she helped compose them. If anyone should have double checked the requirements and made sure she didn’t violate any of the stupid rules made to make sure people continue to live in fear, it would be her or her staff. She knew EXACTLY what she was doing and enjoyed it because she knew others were being denied her privilege.