Supervisor Invites Controversial San Francisco Salon Owner To Open In Placer County
AUBURN (CBS13) — A Northern California supervisor recently sent an open letter to the San Francisco salon owner at the center of a controversial visit involving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging the businesswoman to set up shop in Placer County.
Pelosi faced a storm of criticism on Sept. 1 after surveillance video was released of an indoor visit to a San Francisco hair salon that went against COVID-19 protocols that were then in place.
The House Speaker later called the incident "a set up," a description that the stylist who worked on Pelosi's hair during the visit backed up.
CBS Sacramento reports Placer County District 1 Supervisor Bonnie Gore revealed in a Facebook post Tuesday that she had sent a letter to Erica Kious, the owner of eSalon on Union Street in San Francisco.
Kious gave an emotional denial that she set Pelosi up on Sept. 3 during a Zoom news conference, despite having provided the surveillance video that prompted the controversy.
I sent a note today to Erica Kious, the salon owner who was run out of San Francisco following the incident with Speaker...
Posted by Bonnie Gore on Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Kious appeared on a cable news network Tuesday morning and said she didn't yet know when or where she'd open up another salon.
Last week, Kious told Fox News that -- due to the fallout from the controversy -- she would be closing the salon that Pelosi visited.
Hair salons and barbershops, under California's updated reopening plan, can now operate indoors with modifications.