Stylist who blew out Pelosi's hair is backing her up.

[greyl]

Jonathan DeNardo is the stylist, Erica Kious is the owner.

"Kious gave the footage to Fox News"

Similar to the Stormy Daniels setup involving cops.

Less than two hours later, Jonathan DeNardo, the stylist who blew out Pelosi’s hair, released a statement through an attorney contradicting Kious.

The statement says the law firm is in possession of photographs and videotape that show that Kious has been operating her salon in violation of state and local restrictions since April. The statement also says that Kious authorized Pelosi coming to the salon for her blow out, and that she was critical of the House speaker because she erroneously believed Pelosi was behind the restrictions that shut down her salon. (The rules were put in place by Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.)

“Ms. Kious has also been actively encouraging and almost forcing stylists who operate at eSalon to violate such orders for her own financial benefit in the form of receiving lease payments,” the statement says. “The fact that Ms. Kious is now objecting to Speaker Pelosi’s presence at eSalon, and from a simple surface-level review of Ms. Kious’ political leanings, it appears Ms. Kious is furthering a set-up of Speaker Pelosi for her own vain aspirations.”

The brouhaha began on Monday, when security camera footage at the eSalon showed Pelosi inside, passing by with wet hair and a mask wrapped around her neck and being trailed by a hair stylist who was wearing a mask. Kious gave the footage to Fox News, which first reported the story Tuesday.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-02/pelosi-hair-fallout-salon-mask

[oregonjen]

1. Hope this backfires bigly for the owner

[greyl]

2. Likely will. Maybe Jonathan DeNardo will be the next owner. :) nt

[Fullduplexxx]

21. She'll be the next gofundme loser

[Demsrule86]

26. I expect it will...what a dumb thing to do...apparently this civics challenged idiot thought Nancy

was responsible for rules concerning salons and the closing of salons...which of course is not true; this woman is dumber than a bag of rocks.

[JI7]

3. She went on Fox News and said SF is like a third world

[Hekate]

7. She boasted on her FB page that she had 3 successful shops in SF & was opening another in Fresno

You know Fresno: heat, smog, and agriculture. Nothing against agriculture per se, but smog and heat get me down. Of course, maybe Devin Nunes’ cows are an attraction for her. And it is definitely not San Francisco.

[cwydro]

25. And Pelosi chooses to go to this rw idiot's salon?

Why?

[NYC Liberal]

28. Chose; probably not going anymore. Perhaps she didn't know the owner's political leanings

or she didn't even know the owner at all. I certainly have no idea who actually owns the barbershop I go to, much less their politics.

[Hekate]

29. Still all Pelosi's "fault"? Interesting. She patronizes a local business but is supposed to quiz...

...them regarding “party loyalty”? Also interesting.

As you can tell from the OP, the person who styled Mme Speaker’s hair was a gentleman man who leased a work-station in the salon, not the owner — which is how barber shops and hair salons operate.

[bullwinkle428]

24. I fucking love all of the RWers who CHOOSE to live and run their businesses

in blue areas, and then get online and act like they're political prisoners, being held in chains, in the "People's Republic" of Wherever the Fuck they are. Look, if you really would prefer to live in some kind of pseudo-Libertarian paradise like South Dakota or Wyoming, nobody is fucking stopping you!

[Denzil_DC]

4. Statement from the stylist's lawyer:

[greyl]

8. Thank you! nt

[Ilsa]

27. Thank you for posting. Greed. Money. That's what this

Trump cultist is about. Many are racists, but others only care about money over everything, and Ms Kious is one of them.

[crickets]

30. +1

[Sympthsical]

5. That's why I waited a bit longer before saying anything

Because owners rent/lease out chairs, and I wanted to know who knew what, when, why, etc. The owner is a giant Republican, but I wanted the stylist's story.

Now we have it.

Well, this was stupid of the owner.

I mean, look, Speaker Pelosi should have known or at least have questioned the rules. We're all expected to know these things. She should, too. So, I fault her for that. But it's a minor fault. Isn't exactly interrupting my day over here. A little annoyed it gave a slight hook for anti-maskers to hang their hats on, but let's be honest - those assholes will hang their hats on anything.

This is going to backfire spectacularly on the owner. You can't fix stupid.

[greyl]

6. Yes, the owner's release of the video ends up incriminating HER more than Nancy. nt

[rufus dog]

9. Below are the numbers from the 2016 election

So it is quite possible that the 2020 numbers will go 90% for Biden.

All I can say, is what an ignorant owner.


D H. Clinton
85.5%
312,443
R D. Trump
9.4%
34,493

[SunSeeker]

18. Turns out Kious let her salon license expire in May, I bet shd had plans to move regardless.

Online records show that eSalon’s Board of Barbering and Cosmetology license expired on May 31.https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases


https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/jonathan-denardo/

[betsuni]

10. And now it all blows out.

What a waste of time this silly brouhaha was.

[Hekate]

11. Some people at DU can't seem to let this go and are *still* posting about ...

...the perfidy of Nancy P. What a waste of time indeed.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Indeed

[betsuni]

17. I didn't understand what the hell the big conspiracy or whatever was.

These stories come out and some people imagine the worst possible intentions and outcomes, get all worked up. Then the details come out. But the negativity is already out there and hurts Democrats.

[Celerity]

12. Kious is a trout pout fake blonde MAGAt, already whoring out on Fux News, I hope she's soon flushed

down the loo.


she is also a gun humper

[greyl]

13. Also see this earlier DU thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214014978

(I searched GD for "pelosi" before posting, and missed this one from Nevilledog)

[tableturner]

15. Jeez....Trump commits 100 acts per day worse than this!

[Volaris]

16. I told you this was a ratfucking. Nice that Madame Speaker isnt backing down!

[BigmanPigman]

19. Does the owner also go by the name "Karen"?

[pnwmom]

20. This is an article from Heavy on the same topic, with the letter written by deNardo's attorney

at a link in the second paragraph.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/jonathan-denardo/?fbclid=IwAR2yzbuxXboLTTugZqgfbEjcsajyj2OC0yOvL50K-JrPEhDPyvg_MIYrSBA

[Liberal In Texas]

22. Good grief. With all the ILLEGAL things Deadbeat Donnie and his cohort Barr are

doing this is the story the media is all aflutter over? For chrissake the AG if the US is saying it's OK to try and vote twice! Trump is running around spouting discredited conspiracy theories. And he's hiding a serious medical condition that the voters should know about in this election season. Oh, and where are his tax returns?

[spanone]

23. K&R...