Glad to see someone was thinking the same as I was.
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.
Depends on the person not the sex. Noem is the only woman Presidential or VP candidate to date I’d vote for. She’s got the governing goods and wide appeal. The Dems know this and are already targeting her.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. As I kid I recall groups of relatives who would sit around the kitchen table on Sunday afternoons engaging in profane angry rants about Andrew Carnegie, five or six decades after he had died.
Apparently he was such an a-hole to have as a boss that the descendants of his workers could not stop badmouthing him generations later. And you can see around here how that truly did lead to this “Democrats are fo’ DA WORKIN’MAN!” mentality.
Huge taxes on EEEEEEEVIL corporations (such as yourself) being part of the fallout.
Pelosi’s NOT the only democrat witch with a fresh haircut...I’m guessing most of ‘em care more about how they look than if their state economies fail.
Chinese, Democrats, BLM and/or Antifa have:
released a bio-weapon that disproportionately hurt the US and US economy
kept democrat state economies closed down even when they could be opening up.
Working at crashing markets
Burning and looting our cities - a distraction for other more serious damage.
Next? Food chain panics causing starvation and more riots.
Trump needs to find the people behind the people behind the people who planned, financially supported and created riots... Those people are the key to the rest of the horrors.
My thoughts exactly. I have little desire to live in a big town/small city, but the outskirts is fine. It would be okay to locate an office in town as long as bLM/Antifa types are deterred from doing their thing. I currently live on the edge of the suburbs and rural PA. The same idea applies to Wyoming. Cheyenne would be the play as well.
I've heard of and seen Daktronics product.
Sarah was rather green and Palinized herself too. I think Kristi is much more Presidential material for a myriad of reasons.
Personally I would go to Cheyenne if I were you, but the Rockies are like heaven to me. On the downside, keep in mind that Cheyenne is next door to the Colorado Front Range, which is practically like being next door to California.
BUMP
I’m not a CO native but been here 20+ years. Looking to get out after the last kid is through HS in two years. Beautiful CO has become overpriced, overcrowded and overrated. SD is one of the states on my list
The Rapid City area is considered a banana belt!
This is ridiculous.
Erika should stay right where she is and tell the gangsters of SF to Foff.
Running off to the Badlands is surrendering the nicest part of the United States to the trash.
That’s why they are doing all of this: they want to take what they can’t make.
So screw them. We Americans are staying in CA, it’s not going to be handed over to the thug scum, they leave, we DON’T.
Glad to see someone was thinking the same as I was.
Was at a plastic model contest in Rapid City a few years back. I could live there. Just up the road from Denver.
Not Guilty!
Not Guilty at all!
Let’s see if SNL can ridicule Noem like they did to Sarah Palin.
They will try, but it won’t work.
Did you pan for gold?
The weather has four seasons. There are frigid days and hot days throughout the year. Overall, pleasant weather much of the year.
I lived in Sioux Falls on the eastern side from age 9-19. I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB outside Rapid City on the west side from 85-89. I still live only 3 hrs south of Sioux Falls, in the Omaha NE area.
Those were great years in a great state with no income tax and a lot to see and do across the state.
The salon owner could do much worse and should consider a visit to the state.
RE: The Rapid City area is considered a banana belt!
I take this to mean that it is WARMER on that area even during winter? But how warm?
Don’t worry so much about the weather when getting older. I’ve spent most of my life and military career in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
I’m a month and a half from 70 and the winter is not a big problem; you quickly adapt.
Besides, the older you get, the more refrigeration you need to keep from spoiling.
That statement is mostly true. Rapid City sits at the foot of the Black Hills and while I lived there we had several Christmas’s with sunny, 50 degree weather and a few years we had -20 degrees and house covering blizzards. Neither was the norm. The mountains can moderate the weather patterns so there is a variety from year to year.
Most likely.
Not the ones I met. They spoke mostly high German..and a whole nuther dialect than some.
Round Sheboygan Co Wi, there are a majority of Germans who spoke/speak Low German, and they couldnt understand the Hutterites at all. Now could they understand Germans that came over from the Old country.
Case in point. You remember the movie 1941? John Belushi? Etc? Well that actor-cant remember his name, who was on the Japanese sub who was acting as a German Officer spoke perfect high German. That actor actually could speak the language in real life. My ex inlaws spoke low German, and when he was acting his scene and speaking, they couldnt understand nearly a word of what he was saying. They said that it was gibberish.
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