Pelosi’s staff insisted that Pelosi wear a mask when her hair is done except for short periods when her hair was washed. Security footage showed Pelosi not wearing a mask as she was walking quickly between two small rooms in the salon, her hair wet as if washed.
“The speaker always wears a mask and adheres to local covid requirements,” Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hamill said in a statement.
But Hamil’s comments were accepted by Pelosi and his staff relied on someone’s interpretation at the salon about what was allowed by the new city rules – which had been in effect since Friday – and that person was wrong.
“The business offered the speaker to come on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.” “The speaker followed the rules presented to him by this establishment.”
Pelosi’s staff said the speaker has a regular stylist who usually goes to Pelosi’s house to do her hair. But the man was not available on Monday so he referred Pelosi’s staff to a stylist at Isalon as he was Pelosi’s regular stylist working there.
CNN Kiyus and E reached Salon by phone and email, but received no immediate response.
Kiaz told Fox News that her salon has independent and rented chairs, and she was one of her independent stylists who told Kiao that she plans to do Pelosi’s hair on Monday.
“I was, are you kidding me right now? Should I let this happen? What should I do?” Kiyas told Fox News that she said she “can’t control” what her stylists do, because she rents chairs from him, because at the moment “they’re not paying”.
Kiyos described the visit to Pelosi, “The slap on her face that she went inside, you know, that she feels like she can just go and finish her work while no one else can go inside, and I can work. Not. ”
Banning Covid’s shuttering and hair salons and not barbershops has been politicized year-round. In May, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had his hair cut at a Texas salon, whose owner was jailed for violating his state’s stay-at-home order and starting his own business early. President Donald Trump, who has pushed for industries to reopen amid a continuing epidemic, also backed the Texas salon owner.
Trump retweeted the Fox News story about Pelosi less than a week after he hosted a Republican National Convention speech on the White House South Lane without social media and very few masks.
On Capitol Hill, Pelosi has strengthened lawmakers’ controls in response to the Covid-19, which requires a mask on the house floor and Capitol Hall. And she also suggested to all committee chairpersons that wearing masks be required at committee meetings when those in attendance were not speaking, and he pushed for rules allowing voting by proxy so legislators who could not travel between epidemics could vote for someone on their behalf. .
Pelosi has also been the Democrat’s main negotiator for a second round of funding for a coronavirus response. That effort has largely stalled because Democrats and Republicans are so different on the number of topline spending.
This story has been updated to reflect that the hair salon where house speaker Nancy Pelosi did her hair is not connected to a home coloring service with the same name.
CNN’s Manu Raju and Dan Simon contributed to this report.
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