The recognition came after
Reported by Fox News that the owner of the salon, Erica Keeus, was unhappy that Pelosi had violated the rules requiring this hair treatment outdoors due to the pandemic. Fox also said it received CCTV footage of the speaker.
echelon without mask.
Pelosi’s staff insisted that Pelosi wear a mask while doing her hair, except for a short period when she washed her hair. Surveillance footage shows that Pelosi, without a mask, briefly walks between two small rooms in the salon, her hair wet, as if it had just been washed.
“The speaker always wears a mask and complies with local Covid regulations,” Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill said in a statement.
But in comments, Hammill admits that Pelosi and her staff relied on someone in the salon to interpret what was allowed by the new city rules – which just went into effect on Friday – and that that person was wrong.
“This business invited the speaker to come on Monday and told her that the city had allowed them to have one client in their business at a time,” Hammill said. “The speaker followed the rules presented to her by this institution.”
Pelosi’s staff said the speaker has a permanent stylist who usually goes to Pelosi’s house to get her hair done. But this man was not there on Monday, so Pelosi’s staff referred him to a stylist at eSalon, because that’s where Pelosi’s regular stylist worked.
CNN contacted Kious and eSalon by phone and email, but received no immediate response.
Keus told Fox News that the stylists at her salon are independent and rent chairs, and that one of her independent stylists told Keus that she plans to do Pelosi’s hair on Monday.
“I thought, are you kidding me right now? Will I let this happen? What should I do?” Keeus told Fox News, noting that she “has no control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, since “they don’t pay” at the moment.
Kius described Pelosi’s visit as “a slap in the face she gave, you know she feels like she can just go and finish her business while no one else can come in and I can’t work.”
New restrictions in San Francisco state that hairdressers can operate outdoors, although certain procedures such as shampooing, dyeing, and chemical treatments
still banned…
eSalon in San Francisco is not affiliated with
echelon hair coloring service to order.
Closing Covid with formwork and restricting the operation of hairdressers and hairdressers became politicized throughout the year. In May, Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas got his hair cut at a salon in Texas, whose owner was jailed for violating state household law and reopening his business early. President Donald Trump, who has consistently pushed for businesses to resume operations amid the pandemic, also tweeted his support for the owner of the Texas salon.
Trump retweeted the Fox News story about Pelosi less than a week after speaking at the Republican National Convention on the White House’s south lawn with no social distancing and very few masks.
On Capitol Hill, Pelosi stepped up legal restrictions in response to Covid-19, demanding masks on the floor of the house and in the hallways of the Capitol. And she ordered all committee chairs to also require masks to be worn at committee meetings when members are not speaking, and she pushed through rules allowing proxy voting so that lawmakers who were unable to travel during the pandemic could ask someone to vote on their behalf.
Pelosi was also the Democrats’ lead negotiator for yet another round of coronavirus funding. These efforts are largely deadlocked, as Democrats and Republicans continue to diverge widely in terms of spending.
This story has been updated to reflect that the barbershop where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did her hair is not affiliated with the home’s paint service of the same name.
CNN’s Manu Raju and Dan Simon contributed to this report.
