Posted on 09/04/2020 8:04:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In her interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson this week, Erica Kious was adamant that she did not "set up" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when the Democrat was caught on camera getting a hair blowout in her salon, ESalonSF, which has been shut down for months due to the coronavirus. Speaker Pelosi claimed innocence in a recent statement, insisting that the salon fooled her. She demanded an apology, but Kious said it's not coming.
Pelosi's aide, Kious explained, had called a stylist and made the appointment and the appointment was already booked, so there is "no way" she could have set that up.
"I've had a camera system in there for five years," Kious told Carlson. "I mean, I didn't go in there and turn cameras in as soon as she walked in and set her up. So that's absolutely false."
Business has been tough for the past six months, Kious continued, and they're "pretty much done." They've lost at least 60 percent of their clients, not to mention the majority of her staff.
Asked by Carlson if she thinks she'll stay in San Francisco, where she's been for 12 years, Kious said she doubts it. And it pains her because she thought this was her community. But ever since the Pelosi controversy, her Yelp page has been inundated with bad reviews, and she's received hateful threats, including one that warned her they'd burn her salon down.
Gov. Kristi Noem, who watched Kious's interview, took sympathy on her situation and said that South Dakota would welcome her with open arms.
Gov. Noem tweeted:
"My heart goes out to Erika. As a former female small business owner, I can only imagine how crushing these last few months have been. And now THIS!?
Erika, if you want to run your salon in a state that respects Freedom and won't shut you down, then South Dakota is open for you."
Gov. Noem's star has risen ever since she gave a stirring speech at last month's Republican National Convention, where she condemned the violence that has engulfed several Democratic-run cities in recent weeks and championed individual rights and self-government. She is one of only a handful of governors who have refused to issue a statewide stay-at-home order to keep businesses shuttered.
"I had a real honest conversation with the people in our state," she explained in April. "I told them I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of our state, of South Dakota," she said. "I took an oath when I was in Congress, obviously, to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I believe in our freedoms and liberties. What I've seen across the country is so many people give up their liberties for just a little bit of security and they don't have to do that."
Kious is still taken aback that Speaker Pelosi, who has has been coming into her salon for quite a while, felt superior to other San Franciscans. What about her suffering staff?
"If she is in there comfortably without a mask and feeling safe, then why are we shut down?" Kious asked.
East part flat and farmland, west part more hilly with ranch land and lot of Indian Reservations-the Black Hills, Badlands, etc. The Missouri runs through it and there is some great fishing AND pheasant hunting there.
Winters are REALLY cold and like all plains states, blizzards-the snow goes sideways resulting in whiteouts.
Find a Hutterite community and get some land aside them. Make friends with them and all that. You’ll never starve. Need to know German though.
And there are very few people spread out over a lot of land.
Winter is winter. Cold is cold. Snow is snow.
At some point you quit caring about whether it’s six inches, or eight, or twelve. Or whether the temperature is 20, or 10, or -5. The mind and body adapt.
Learned that during my years living in Michigan when I was younger.
Absolutely SAVAGE ad. DAMN!
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I think most/all of the Hutterites can speak English to outsiders. The German they speak is a Low German dialect, not the standard High German taught in schools.
I Left My Hair in San Francisco
Don’t forget your wool socks.
I'm in the middle of starting a business. The plan is to have employees in 18 to 24 months. I will have to change the form of business from a sole proprietorship to an S-Corp or LLC (most likely that later). PA has 9.99% tax on S-Corps (still taxed as an individual at the Federal level) and on single entity LLCs. I will not be doing business in PA in 18 to 24 months.
South Dakota has no individual income tax or corporate income tax or gross receipts tax. It treats single entity LLCs like individuals, the way it should be, and most other states do as well.
Wyoming is the same. They also have a very low sales tax - 4%. They are on the list as is South Dakota.
There are a number of other business and personal requirements beyond taxes and all will be considered, but number one on my list is keeping my hard earned money to expand my business so it is self operating so I can leave as a legacy to my children and grandchildren.
The weather is a consideration, particularly as I get older. My understanding is the wind blows something fierce in winter. I can deal with cold, it's a little bit more difficult for me to get knocked down by a wind that rips right through you.
She is fully a Trumpian......even came to montgomery, pa to Trump for Trump .
But the car never does. Machinery of all kinds hates to work when it gets much below zero.
When the weather gets past a certain point of badness, close the business, close everything, and just stay home. It's expected. Get a woodstove or generator (or both) in case the power goes out. The Interstates out there have gates on the on-ramps so they can close them completely during a blizzard.
Thanks for posting that. We all need a lift.
As I said, I am thumbs up on her. Period. Freedom and liberty is the most important principle of our politics now and forever.
The Republicans have an incredible stable of dynamic leaders within the party and she is definitely one of those to keep an eye on. She exudes common sense.
No income tax in South Dakota...
Depends on season. Summers can be an oven and winters? Well let’s put it this way...there’s nothing between you and the wind and cold from the north pole except great plains!
Depends on season. Summers can be an oven and winters? Well let’s put it this way...there’s nothing between you and the wind and cold from the north pole except great plains!
Learned that in Michigan’s Thumb too. You do get used to a 40MPH wind out of the due North eventually.
This is good, and the salon owner needs to sue pelosi for defamation of character. I’m completely serious. pelosi is responsible for the loss of business, the anxiety caused by the hate mail, the closing of the business, the deliberate and illegal harassment that the salon will get from the city.
An apology from pelosi is not enough. pelosi needs to be fined a few million, to be kicked out of office, and to be shamed publicly.
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