TX Salon Owner Hits CPAC, Obliterates Government Tyrants Who Jailed Her Over COVID

Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther, who was jailed last year for reopening her shop amid a COVID-19 lockdown, has a message for small  business owners struggling to make ends meet: “Open your doors.”

“You are not doing anything illegal. And we want the community to back you like the community backed me. And that’s the only reason I’m standing here today. I had the backing of the nation,” Luther told The Western Journal at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Luther became a standard-bearer of the movement to reopen small businesses across America when she was jailed by a judge for reopening last spring.

The owner of Salon À la Mode, Luther had seen her shop temporarily closed for violating an executive order that prohibited continued operation of so-called “nonessential” businesses until later this month, according to CBS DFW.

Unwilling to see her family or those of her employees go without amid the ongoing national emergency, though, Luther opened up shop early, operating with enhanced cleaning procedures and social distancing protocols in order to keep much-needed cash flowing in a responsible manner.

Mounting pressure from local authorities, including a cease-and-desist order from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, did not prevent Luther from keeping the lights on at Salon À la Mode.

In fact, the business owner eventually went viral for ripping up that order, to thunderous applause, at an “Open Texas” rally in front of Frisco City Hall on April 25.

Luther emphasized Friday that she is not forcing anyone to patronize her salon. Rather, she simply believes people ought to have the choice of whether to do so or not.