Shelley Luther, Dallas salon owner who was jailed for defying coronavirus orders, joins ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’
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Over to you will
will thank you, Jedediah,
a Dallas salon owner who was
thrown in jail for defying her
states. Lockdown order is
running for office,
stand up and go to jail for
you. I do it again and again I
will fight to keep our Texas
boundaries.
Will Shellie Luther announcing
run at a black to blue rally
defying orders to keep our
business closed? She served jail
time.
She joins us now
good morning, Shellie
good morning. Will.
How are you
will im? Well, thank you.
What happened to you over the
last several months
last we heard your business had
been shut down and you served
some jail time.
How is business going right now?
Business is great.
We have been opened actually,
since I opened that first day,
even when I was in jail, the
business stayed open,
so its been awesome
will imagined to stay up and
running during the pandemic, and
now your business is back.
You are running for State
Senate
Texas.
Tell us why!
Well I mean I have had
thousands of people reach out to
me. I think people are yearning
for a real person in government
people that have real problems,
people that have been on the
front lines and faced all of
these difficulties, though, want
somebody who really cares about
what is happening
will willing, certainly on the
front line of the pandemic and
shut down orders
as a state senator. What would
be your approach to a situation
like this
would have you at all embraced
the idea of a shutdown to deal
with to combat the coronavirus
pandemic?
I think I would have done a
temporary shutdown, maybe two
weeks or maybe even up to a
month- thirty days at the most just
until we figured it out
and when I mean figured it out,
meaning, okay, well, we will wear
masks or we will determine what
is safe enough to go out or in.
I just think that adults should
be able to make their own
decisions
after a 30 day period,
and if people want to take the
chance to go somewhere. That is
absolutely their right. To do so
will certainly understand the
message of embracing individual
choice.
Help me understand: if you were
in a state Senate, you would be
looking at a shutdown of Bess
business for a length of period
of time. That seems to be
somewhat in contradiction with
the choice you made a few months
ago.
Is it not?
No,
because did I actually shut down
for the period of time
and then, when we were shut down
for a month and other businesses
were thriving all around us and
the virus didnt seem to be
spreading throughout the quote:
unquote essential businesses.
I thought you know it was
definitely fair for my business
to be open as well,
and if people wanted to occupy
or go in to my business, we
absolutely had the right to
open.
Will right
so after a period of time, open
back up and let businesses
decide if its time for them.
What about the way Texas is
handling the pandemic. Now,
do you approve of Governor
Abbott and Texas Legislature and
how they are handling the
coronavirus? Now
I do not.
We still have a statewide mask
mandate, which I feel is
ridiculous.
I feel like if a business owner
wants to require a mask to come
in then thats their right
in my salon. Actually, I do
require a mask to come in, just
because clients are face to face
with the stylist for over an
hour, sometimes two hours at a
time,
and if people want to come in my
salon, they have to wear a mask,
but I feel like if there is a
salon owner that does not want
to require a mask. That is
absolutely their right.
People should be able to make
decisions for themselves.
Will you would be opposed to a
statewide mask mandate?
Essentially, your message is,
while you were embrace a
temporary shutdown to handle
something like the coronavirus
pandemic afterwards allow people
and individuals and businesses
to make their own choices
absolutely,
and I mean I dont know if we
will see something like this in
the foreseeable future,
but thirty days MAX and then, if a
governor wants to continue to
make decisions, he or she needs
to discuss that with other
people in government.
There needs to be a special
session called, and this needs to
be discussed with other people
who can create laws for this
not just be a king or will turn
into a communist state, and we
cant do that.
Will Shelly Luther. Thank you.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-29.