GOP lawmakers got illegal haircuts while calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to reopen salons

[TexasTowelie]

by Cassandra Pollock and Stacy Fernández, Texas Tribune


On Tuesday, state Reps. Steve Toth and Briscoe Cain sat wearing barbers' gowns in a Houston-area salon, ready for their haircuts. Both Republicans were breaking state law by doing so, but to them, it mattered no less — one was there to send a message to Gov. Greg Abbott, and the other was there as an act of civil disobedience.

“A little less on the sides,” Toth, from The Woodlands, told the hairstylist while on the phone with a Texas Tribune reporter, noting that "there's absolutely no reason" why such businesses couldn't reopen their doors under proper health guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.

"I think these businesses need to be open," Cain, from Deer Park, told Fox 26 while getting his haircut.

Hours later, their wish was granted: Abbott announced that hair salons and barber shops were among the businesses that could begin to reopen Friday — several days earlier than he had previously signaled.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/05/texas-salons-not-open-illegal-haricuts/


From left: State Reps. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, and Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, get haircuts in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s orders on business closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo credit: Twitter

[Blues Heron]

1. Nasty speaders gotta spread

wear a mask fools! God these people are so intensely arrogant. Fucking vile.

[samnsara]

2. while the rest of us look like Cuzzin It.....

[dlk]

3. Toth looks as mean as a snake

He doesn’t appear happy with having his hair cut.

[flotsam]

4. They had their pictures taken to get attention

therefore the state should give it to them-arrest them, book them, and then fine the shit out of them in court. If they weasel out and plead guilty, force them to pay fines in cash and take pictures of them paying. Fair is fair-they mocked the law and the law should mock them.

[LeftInTX]

5. I expect this from Briscoe Cain

Not familiar with Toth, but I assume he's pretty much from the Empower Texans gang too.