Nancy Pelosi got indoor hair care at SF salon, report says

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her hair shampooed and blow-dried indoors at a San Francisco hair salon Monday, although city rules do not allow for such care during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

Fox News reported the visit Tuesday and obtained security footage of the styling treatment.

San Francisco began allowing salons to operate outdoors starting Tuesday, with a plan to open indoor operations in October, but such services were not allowed Monday.

...

Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement, “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.”

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Nancy-Pelosi-got-indoor-hair-care-at-San-15533059.php

[onecaliberal]

1. Salons were allowed to open indoors even in my county that is in stage purple

Which is the worst, on Monday. So I’m sure they’re open in San Francisco too.

[Polybius]

3. The article says they are only open outdoors

Says indoors is set for October.

[onecaliberal]

6. They must have more strict measures than the state.

[Polybius]

52. It's like that here too in NYC with indoor dining

It's allowed all over NY, except for NYC.

[Cha]

13. "..and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.

Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement, “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.

[DeminPennswoods]

36. I'm sure there were also security concerns if

she got her hair done outside.

[question everything]

62. How can you shampoo someone's hair outdoor?

Unless you are using a garden hose?

[Polybius]

63. I have no idea

Outdoor salons raise all sorts of questions. Perhaps they tell you to wash your hair right before you get there?

[onecaliberal]

72. Good question.

[Polybius]

2. Didn't know that SF still had a ban on salons

NYC ended ours in June.

[Bengus81]

89. So the Salon owner KNOWINGLY broke the law. SHUT the place down then. BACKFIRE TIME.......

She admitted as much by sending the video to FOX. Don't get mad...get even.

Everyone can play the game................

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. BFD...If she was she only one in the salon....

That means no one else was around. No harm done.

[agingdem]

12. Oh, you got her SF Chronicle!!!

must have been a slow news day with the US in chaos and the orange imbecile "stroking out" about soup bombs...

[Dr. Strange]

79. Agreed...

as long as every other citizen is allowed the same right. But if the city or state is prohibiting this kind of business, then that needs to apply to everyone.

[NNadir]

5. That's nothing. The racist guy promoted by the racists at Fox News let 6 million Americans...

contract a disease and 180,000 to die to date, without the racist vigilante cheering frat boy Tucker Carlson saying a word.

[onecaliberal]

7. That.

[FarPoint]

17. Now that is where we need to focus...

He even gets his hair done on Air Force One, the White House, and who knows where else....no mask, a blow-dryer I surely involved.

[comradebillyboy]

8. I hear that she likes premium quality ice cream as well...

[unitedwethrive]

9. Whatever. I'm more interested in how 45 gets that "natural" orange color.

Or where he gets his high heels.

[Cha]

14. Right.. jump on that FUX.. where does trump get his "High Heels"?

[jmowreader]

19. How he gets that "natural" orange color

https://shop.bronxcolors.com/product/boosting-hydrating-concealer/

He wears shade BHC 06 Orange, and this makes me wonder: these kinds of concealers are very thick - think "slightly watered-down joint compound" and you're on the right track - so how the hell can Trump stand to have his face completely covered with it all day?

As to his high heels, any good shoe repairman can raise the heels on a pair of quality shoes.

[FBaggins]

58. Actually... the WH has its own hair salon

The "cosmetology room" is just across the hall from the president's bedroom and adjoins the dining room in the residence.

[dalton99a]

10. I don't give a shit as long as she doesn't commit a felony.

And if she commits a felony, show me a conviction.

[sprinkleeninow]

11. tЯump wears high heel sneekers an' a wighat....

Tommy Tucker~'Hi-Heel Sneakers'(1964)

[Hekate]

28. Good catch!

I haven’t heard that song in years and years.

[sprinkleeninow]

30. Don't have the foggiest why that tune pops up in my brain now and again.

Mb the wighat part that really applies.
😝

[BumRushDaShow]

34. What is wild

is that my parents loved the Ramsey Lews Trio (still have a couple of the albums my parents had) and I think the first time I remember this song as a kid was his cover of it - and just the song name alone had cracked me up.

[stopdiggin]

15. why are we posting (or discussing) this? (nt)

pisses me off. Is this intended to be anti-Democrat, anti-Pelosi, anti-political -- what? What purpose is being advanced or served here?

[sfstaxprep]

18. The Media Will Cover It Regardless

Whether we're discussing it here is pretty much meaningless.

I'm more concerned about the fact it has potential to be used as a distraction by the other side, and the last thing I want is a distraction to take away from the disaster that is in the White House.

[Doug.Goodall]

39. Some of us like picking up come-backs to right wing talking points.

[Judi Lynn]

71. A Democrat wouldn't dream of giving life to this rubbish.

Thanks for being a person of conscience.

[sfstaxprep]

16. 100% Chance I'll Get Criticized For Saying This....

It's not a good look. She should know better. She's the Speaker, and must be aware that she's always being watched, and something like this has a good chance of getting out. And now it will be used as fodder for the other side.

And there were other employees present in the salon, so she should have been wearing a mask. Again, not a good look, especially after advocating for a nationwide mask mandate.

I'm sorry, I don't expect our side to be perfect, but I do expect us to be smart. She used her stature, and likely thought she would get away with it. Incidents like this would be fine if she were a repub, but our standards should be higher. And it does bug me a little that her office seems to be using several excuses to explain it away.

Anyways, I'm sure the media will be all over this tomorrow, as will all the right wing nutjobs. An unnecessary distraction 2 months from the most important election of the last 85 years.

[srose58089]

20. I agree with your analysis

sfstaxrep I agree with all the points in your post. But I don't think much will come of this story. The right wing media has been trashing Madam Speaker since before the Stone Age and I doubt that one voter will be influenced either way.

[crimycarny]

22. I guess I have stature then

Since my salon let me get my hair cut inside as there were no other clients at the time (and we all wore masks).

It only becomes a distraction if we all start wailing and gnashing of teeth, like progressives always seem to do. “But we’re the Good Guys!! OMG! If we defend her we’ll look like—gasp!!—HYPOCRITES!”

This is a non issue which, yes, the right wing will try to make into a big issue. How about we not help them and instead keep our eye on the ball.

[Hekate]

25. I thought the story said she WAS wearing a mask. Also, it was not a secret mission...

...it was a damn haircut, following protocols acceptable here in California.

Fox did this — they got security video, for gods’ sake, and I am sure Madame Speaker would like to know who at her trusted salon allowed that to happen.

[Polybius]

61. I don't know how the security video was leaked

BBC posted it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53994209?fbclid=IwAR2MDwJR8IkOiuUdawQvwcKff-DcLWD4EfIyOSjEhRwQkkhDrqFJlGllzSM

[haele]

80. If that's Nancy, she has a mask on.

It's a bit low on her nose, and it's close to the color of her complexion.

Pretty obvious when you blow it up.

Haele

[Polybius]

81. Yes, but it's below her nose

The video makes it more clear.

[haele]

82. And I've seen professional health care workers with their masks down a bit when no one is near.

They put it back up quickly enough when others come near. It's often a human reaction, especially if she just had her hair washed and chemicals put in.
Mask gets damp and retains the smell of the hair treatment, I wouldn't doubt there is anyone who wouldn't pull a mask down to air or dry if it seemed safe for a minute or so.

I used to wear a KN94 when working shipyards; if I had a chance to get halfway fresh air for a moment in the heat, humidity, and nasty fumes, I'd pull my mask down just like that for a minute or two as soon as I felt it was safe.

Whether or not it was wise, she probably thought it was safe. Nobody really expects there to be a security camera to watch their every move in their "neighborhood salon".
That the only other person in the room is behind her, after all.

Haele

[Polybius]

83. Someone is right behind her, that's fairly near

But that irrelevant, because she never should have went inside. Salons are illegal indoors in SF until October, and "I didn't know" isn't a valid excuse.

[stopdiggin]

26. you're right. I'm going to be critical.

If you are not manufacturing talking points for the right -- then you are certainly repeating them. There are certainly people on the left that indulge themselves in this -- but I do not consider them allies. And, at this point in the game, if you're not helping -- the what the hell are you doing on this site?

"She used her stature, and likely thought she would get away with it."

And you know this to be her motivation, because ....?
Sorry -- not buying you're handwringing, "we can be better," BS. Maybe you can bring it back up in 2024.

[Qutzupalotl]

29. I agree it's not a good look.

She was wearing a face covering. The video shows it partly down as she moves around mid-cut. So the statement from her spokesperson that she complied with procedures does check out in that respect.

However, blow-drying was not allowed, and indoor cuts were not available to others the day she went in. That leaves her open to accusations of “do as I say, not as I do.” So a bad move that could have been avoided.

The Fox News article focuses on the business owner, who called it a slap in the face. So they are playing up that angle.

She will survive, though. The right might get a few days of play out of it, then it’s on to the next chaotic disaster.

[Oneironaut]

47. Yup. This was bad judgment or arrogance.

The rules should apply to everyone, and if you’re telling people to act a certain way, you should live by example.

[demmiblue]

56. I agree. n/t

[nitpicker]

59. +1

[stillcool]

67. and Joe Biden didn't go to Kenosha...

the sky has indeed fallen!

[MosheFeingold]

76. It's not a good look

It plays directly into the out-of-touch elite theme the Repugs use to attack Democrat -- "laws are for the little people" and all that.

Been hearing it all day.

She absolutely should have known better and needs to apologize. And her apology of claiming "set up" doesn't cut it.

A good apology is:

1. Say you are sorry.
2. Say that you regret it
3. Acknowledge exactly what you did wrong ("I broke the rules. I didn't think it would hurt, and that was stupid.&quot
4. Empathy -- I know people are hurting from this rule and shocked at my rule-breaking, and I regret it.
5. Repentance -- I will strive not to do something stupid like this again
6. Please forgive me for what I did.

[Polybius]

84. She said it was a setup

She apologized for not knowing she'd be set up, and blamed the hair stylist for telling her to come in. She claimed she didn't know it was illegal to do indoor hair styling in SF.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[demmiblue]

77. Here is her response:

Link to tweet

Ugh, no comment... but not losing sleep over it, either.

[SMC22307]

78. No criticism from me... you make good points. (n/t)

[revmclaren]

21. This story is currently being pushed over at jpr

sadly, by a current DU member with another DUer in the post supporting it.

Any trivial over-blown story is being used to bash top Democratic leaders across the internet.

[Hekate]

24. You checked out jpr? I hope you wore a mask and washed your hands afterward...

It’s kind of a petri dish at the best of times.

[revmclaren]

33. Waaaay past the Petri dish stage.

I visit it once in a while to gauge the insanity of the 'never-vote-for Democrats' crowd.

There are a few sane voices there in an otherwise dank dark cesspool, but they are always attacked and drowned out by the hate mongers and pro Putin enablers.

A hot shower and calming music is always called for after a visit there.

[Hekate]

23. Sounds like my last haircut, in June. There were a total of 3 chairs filled, widely spaced out...

...no shampoo service unless you got a color job, and every single person wore a mask. No blow dry. Anyone waiting to enter or for their dye to set was outdoors on a little patio. Hand sanitizer at the door.

So it was Fox “News” following the Speaker of the House around and obtaining security cam video? How very like them. Are they following Ivanka around? No?

Mountain, meet molehill.

[olddad65]

27. Oh man, lock her up. Dems aren't allowed to do something like that.

[jcmaine72]

31. This is little more than Breitfart flatulence

Let's stay focused on what's really important.

[PSPS]

32. OMG!!!! That's the last straw!1 I'm voting for trump!!111!!!!111!!

[Submariner]

35. Nancy has bigger balls than me

You couldn’t pay me a thousand dollars to sit in front of a barber who is exposed to possibly dozens of contaminated people every day. It would be my death sentence.

[Roy Rolling]

37. Oh FFS

‘Do-gate. Hairgate. What-the-fuck-gate.

I don’t care where she gets her fucking hair cut.

On edit: was she wearing a tan suit? Because that’s fucking serious.

[Vinca]

38. Well, somebody get the tar and feathers. Good lord! The salons are open where I live, but

I choose not to go. In fact, now that I've saved so much money cutting my own hair (with Mr. Vinca's help), I might not go back at all.

[LisaL]

46. I haven't gone to hair salon either.

I am starting to look like Yetti.

[brooklynite]

40. Pelosi deserves criticism for this...

It doesn’t matter if “nobody else was in the salon, so nobody was at risk”.

It doesn’t matter if “salons are open in my State/Town”.

The City of San Francisco decided on more restrictive regulations, limiting salons to outdoor service only. To ignore the rule makes it easier for someone to think they can ignore OTHER rules that they don’t like. It also plays into Trump’s argument that “they” think they’re more entitled than “you”.

[LanternWaste]

74. If the criticisms are disproportional to the act...

it becomes little more than righteous rage at wearing a tan suit, which is quite obviously an easy goal to achieve.

But we get it... proportion and nuance doesn't suit the Orthodox narrative being served on concern-colored plates.

[Bengus81]

90. And the salon owner deserves to be SHUT DOWN for breaking the law in SF

Give Nancy her slap on the wrist for believing the "person" that OWNS the place and not checking herself. Then...FINE the salon owner and shut her place down for using it as a FOX news "gotcha" segment.

[0nirevets]

41. Shock. Horror. Exactly the kind of story a legitimate newspaper should cover at this critical time.

Derp.

[Hugin]

43. I seriously thought the age of "Gotcha!" media was over...

I stand corrected.

I guess all of the Koppelites aren't gone, yet.

[Snellius]

42. This salon rents out chairs to independent stylists

[betsuni]

44. But her indoor hair care.

People are stupid.

[LisaL]

45. I know.

NT

[Initech]

49. Funny how people are more outraged by this than the 180,000+ people who have died so far.

Fake outrage is fake outrage.

[Demsrule86]

48. This is right wing talking points from Fox which is in the snip...

"Fox News reported the visit Tuesday and obtained security footage of the styling treatment." Right wing talking points...should be taken down...perhaps you should delete this post rather than amplify Fox news reports. And by the way, It was fine for Nancy to get her hair done, and I believe nothing that comes from Fox anyway.

[louis-t]

50. And Fox will beat her over the head with this for weeks.

17 year old shoots 3 people, Fox yawns. Speaker gets haircut, "lock her up!" They make me sick.

[Bayard]

51. SCANDAL!!!

This is almost as bad as Obama's tan suit.

[healthnut7]

53. How is this even news!

[Lulu KC]

54. They're this desperate?

I have not "done the research," but my stylist, whom I trust, has. She said that with both stylist and client wearing masks, there has not been one case of someone getting C-19 from a haircut. She also said that her doctor advised her on this. She is a breast cancer survivor and does not take this lightly.

In the meantime, so many other things in the news. I call it an indication that they know they will lose in November.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

55. Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement,

"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.”

I believe it, and I don't expect Fed representatives to always be aware of the laws created by state and local reps.

Sounds like a set-up to me.

The Chronicle has left messages for the salon owner, Erica Kious. Kious told Fox that a stylist who rents a chair at the salon texted her about the impending visit from the San Francisco Democrat on Sunday night.

The salon owner criticized Pelosi over the visit but did not explain why she allowed the stylist to use the salon during the shutdown.

Typical Republican BS. "Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" (Many of their forums are even devoted to this kind of nonsense, pointing out the slightest faults among Democrats, rather than focusing on themselves. It's because they're empty other than ridicule and hate, just like their recent lack of a party platform.)

[brooklynite]

68. "sounds like a setup"...

Why does everything have to be a evil plot?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

86. Not everything, but this case was suspicious from the start.

With further information, it's now obvious.

[FBaggins]

57. I guess I won't be able to vote for her

Of course... I suspect CA is fussy about NC citizens voting in CA elections.

[Polybius]

60. Now they are saying her mask was off

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53994209?fbclid=IwAR2MDwJR8IkOiuUdawQvwcKff-DcLWD4EfIyOSjEhRwQkkhDrqFJlGllzSM

[happy feet]

64. Her mask is clearly ON in this photo

[Hekate]

65. That's what I think as well. I can't discern any features on her lower face. nt

[FBaggins]

66. No it isn't

It's down on her neck. If you watch the video it's clear that it isn't covering her nose or mouth.

I'm not sure why it's such a big deal in this case. There's a reasonable distance between her and others and it appears that her office's statement that she wore the mask "other than a brief period while her hair was being washed" fits what we're seeing.

[Steelrolled]

69. My take...

should she have done that? NO
does it much matter? NO
do I care? NO

To compare and contrast, his is my take for Republicans doing the same:

should they have done that? NO
does it much matter? NO
do I care? NO


This saves me a lot of time doing detective work, struggling to show how one case is wrong and the other case is OK.

[Judi Lynn]

70. Scum-sucking Magats pounced on this story the moment they got a chance, of course.

Donald Trump mocks 'crazy' Nancy Pelosi over her visit to closed hair salon in defiance of COVID rules saying 'turning her in on tape is a big deal' and claiming Republicans will flip the House and 'send Nancy packing'

By NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 12:18 EDT, 2 September 2020 | UPDATED: 12:47 EDT, 2 September 2020

President Donald Trump mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for getting caught mask-less at a beauty salon, flaunting San Francisco COVID-19 rules.

'The Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal,' Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. 'She probably treats him like she treats everyone else...And she strongly supported a Kennedy who just lost in, of all places, Massachusetts!'

In another tweet on the topic, Trump boasted 'we will almost certainly take back the House.'

San Francisco beauty parlors weren't supposed to open until September 1, the next day, and services were to be done outside only.

The salon owner Erica Kious called Pelosi's visit a 'slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feel that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can't work.

More:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8690183/Donald-Trump-mocks-crazy-Nancy-Pelosi-visit-closed-hair-salon.html


Congratulations to those attempting to subject us to at least another four years of living hell daily. You think that's preferable to healing the country. That says more about you than you are capable of realizing.

[LanternWaste]

73. I imagine a large number of the GOP and a even a few alleged Democrats will pretend concern...

Meanwhile, Rome is burning... which the same Venn-inter-sectors will conveniently ignore as their righteous cries of "this makes us look bad!!!" becomes their New and Improved rallying cry for 36 hours.

[Judi Lynn]

75. Pelosi says she fell for "setup" by visiting hair salon during COVID restrictions

Marisa Fernandez

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she takes responsibility for "falling for a setup," after a video leaked to Fox News showed she visited a San Francisco hair salon for a personal appointment at a time when the city was not allowing indoor services due to COVID-19 restrictions.

What she's saying: "I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I've been to over the years many times. When they said what we're able to accommodate people, one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that."

"As it turns out, it was a setup. So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that's all I'm going to say on that."
"I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up," Pelosi added.
The other side: In a phone interview with Fox News, salon owner Erica Kious said, “It was a slap in the face that [Pelosi] 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 added she "can’t control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as one of them did for Pelosi's appointment.

. . .

https://www.axios.com/pelosi-hair-salon-covid-5a617ad6-9895-452c-bfe4-8a0e0ff222b2.html

Why should anyone try to find the truth of a story before trumpeting partial, misleading information? That's the only way the scum of the earth can get any satisfaction.

[Karma13612]

85. This was a complete

SNAFU.

Time to move on.

[Andy Carr]

87. This is the reason you need a national strategy

instead of every county for itself

[Bengus81]

88. Pffffttttt...those MAGOT goons break CV laws to the point of FIGHTS in Walmarts daily....

Video galore and Trump humpers thrive on it. But Pelosi goes in a hair salon as the only customer and they get their panties in a wad?


What fucking ever............

[Bengus81]

91. Now the salon owner has MAGOTS giving her $42,000 on GO FUND ME.....

Says all those evilllll Libruls are sending her death threats and she has to move to a different location. Huh...like no one in SF would know it's the same person at a different building?!?!

Right....

[musette_sf]

93. I'll bet she's just collecting dough for her MAIN salon

in FRESNO. In Devon Nunes Land, she'll be a "hero".