TX Salon Owner Jailed for Staying Open During Covid Wins Election, Tells Fox News Pelosi’s Lockdown Hair Inspired Her to Run

A Texas woman who made national headlines when she was jailed for refusing to close her salon during the Covid pandemic is headed to the state legislature after she trounced her Democratic opponent on Tuesday.

State Rep.-elect Shelley Luther was jailed for operating a Dallas salon until Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott got involved. Luther closed the salon for a month but ultimately decided to open her doors and herself to the city’s then-strict health measures.

Luther told Fox & Friends Weekend Saturday she was not interested in politics until she became a symbol of resistance against government.

She defeated Democrat Tiffany Drake with 77% of the vote.

During an interview with Rachel Campos-Duffy, the Fox News host reminded her audience that high-profile lawmakers such as then-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were visiting salons while average Americans were stuck at home.

Luther said the expereince of seeing elites groomed while she was jailed partially inspired her to enter politics:

Well, what’s actually pretty ironic is even in my mug shot, my roots are like two inches long because I was not getting my hair done. And so it’s funny when all of these other people had their fresh highlights or even some of them in there, you know, fresh colors on their hair, when as normal people didn’t, you weren’t able to do anything.

Yeah. But it was more about essential versus nonessential picking winners and losers. Yes. You know, you could the dog groomer next door to us was wide open, deemed essential.

Campos-Duffy asked Luther what she hoped to accomplish in the Texas State House, to which she replied:

Well, of course, the Republican priorities are number one in Texas. We’ve had a little bit of silliness going on as far as, you know, exactly what the Republican Party wants and what the House actually gets accomplished. And so that was my platform going in.

We had an impeachment of our attorney general That was just ridiculous. And the biggest story is I had a brain aneurysm a month and a half ago and almost died. And so for me to walk out of that, being in the ICU for almost 30 days, the recovery from that and then putting my name in to run one more time, it was huge, but I knew it was my time.

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