Texas Salon Owner Jailed for Defying Lockdown Order, Took $18,,000 in PPP Funds

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The View‘s Sunny Hostin Confronts Texas Salon Owner Jailed for Defying Lockdown Order: You Took $18,000 in PPP Funds


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-views-sunny-hostin-confronts-texas-salon-owner-jailed-for-defying-lockdown-order-you-took-18000-in-ppp-funds/
By Ken Meyer May 11th, 2020, 1:11 pm


The View held an engaging conversation on Monday with Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who has drawn public interest over her refusal to comply with Texas’ coronavirus shutdown.

Luther became an icon to lockdown protesters last week when she opened her salon before the Lone Star state started rolling back social distancing restrictions amid the pandemic. She was ordered to a week in jail for contempt of court after refusing to apologize or pay a fine, though she was released after just two days, and she has drawn garnered support from numerous conservative figures since then.

As Luther shared her story with the show, she said she was compliant with the state lockdown at first, but she spoke about how difficult it was for her and her staff to file for unemployment benefits.

“Government help was not coming, and no one was really even replying to any SBA loans that we were applying for,” she said. “You couldn’t get through, the website was crashing.”

Sunny Hostin eventually noted that Luther did receive a federal loan, even though Luther has claimed that it only came through for her on Sunday.

“You applied for small business loans and unemployment, and you did receive some aid from the government. You received $18,000,” Hostin said. “I understand why people feel so strongly about going back to work because they feel that the government isn’t doing its job and taking care of people, but in this instance, two days before you went to court, the money went into your account. So I’m troubled by that.”..........

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Liberal In Texas]

2. I think this whole thing with her was a set up.

RW political theater. Designed to make them look like martyrs by the mean libs. Her defiance in court which caused her jailing was all part of it.

[tanyev]

4. You are correct.

Arrested Dallas Hairdresser’s GoFundMe Launched Before She Even Reopened

BY DAN SOLOMON DATE MAY 8, 2020

On Friday, Ted Cruz flew to Dallas for a haircut. He hadn’t been looking particularly shaggy, but as hair salons have become the latest front in the culture war, Cruz—never one to miss an opportunity to declare which side he’s on—invited photographers to join him before he donned a face mask and a leopard-print smock for his visit to Salon à la Mode.

The Dallas salon has become pivotal in the stay-at-home-order debates after its owner, Shelley Luther, was arrested on Tuesday and sentenced to seven days in jail on a contempt of court charge. That stemmed from her refusal to apologize and close down her store until the second phase of Governor Greg Abbott’s public safety plan, which was scheduled to go into effect on May 18 so long as infections didn’t continued to spike. Abbott himself declared the punishment for defying his own order unjust, and retroactively barred local officials from imposing jail time for violating it. He then went on to allow hair salons to reopen ten days earlier than he’d previously announced, on May 8. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, meanwhile, volunteered as tribute to serve the time himself, provided he could do so from his own house (Texas jails and prisons are pretty unsafe right now). Then Cruz flew in for a haircut—and Luther landed a big payday, raising more than $500,000 from a GoFundMe campaign that called her “an American hero.”

If all of this feels like a particularly effective PR stunt, well, that certainly seems accurate: the GoFundMe campaign—run by a group calling themselves “Woke Patriots”—was created on April 23, one day before Luther reopened her salon. “We researched her and her cause,” campaign organizer Rick Hire wrote on the page, “and decided that we would approach her and offer to support her as our first patriot cause. She accepted our offer.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/dallas-salon-arrest-gofundme/

[Sanity Claws]

3. Based on my experience

she received notice that the PPP loan was approved two days before it was deposited in her account.

As for the unemployment insurance issue, that is a function of state government. Some states, like Florida, made it hard to collect UI benefits in an effort to keep Unemployment rates artificially low.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R, View treated her with kid gloves but thanks Sunny for trying.

[lame54]

6. That's your fault for voting republican your whole life