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   Salon owner jailed for refusing to shutter her business during COVID   
   lockdown wins seat in state legislature   
   By Jon Levine   
   Published Nov. 9, 2024, 7:44 p.m. ET   
      
   Salon owner Shelley Luther walking towards the media and supporters   
   after her release from jail in Dallas for refusing to keep her business   
   closed due to COVID-19 concerns   
   Salon owner Shelley Luther walking towards the media and supporters   
   after her release from jail in Dallas for refusing to keep her business   
   closed due to COVID-19 concerns   
   AP   
   A Texas woman jailed for operating her salon despite COVID-19 pandemic   
   lockdowns is moving from the big house to the state house.   
      
   Shelley Luther was ordered to jail for seven days in 2020 after Dallas   
   County judge found her guilty of civil and criminal contempt of court,   
   according to Fox 4 Dallas.   
      
   Salon owner Shelley Luther holding a citation and speaking to media   
   after refusing to close her reopened Salon A la Mode in Dallas, amid   
   virus outbreak.   
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   Shelley Luther is heading to the Texas state legislature after being   
   jailed for violating covid lockdowns.   
   AP   
   Luther had refused to shutter the business during lockdown. She was only   
   released from jail after the personal intervention of Texas Gov. Greg   
   Abbott.   
      
   Now, however, she’s moving to the Lone Star state legislature, where she   
   was elected this week to represent the northeast 62d district. Luther, a   
   Republican, defeated Democrat Tiffany Drake with roughly 75% of the vote.   
      
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   Kristi Lisenbee from Keller, Texas, protesting with sign outside Dallas   
   Municipal Court for release of jailed salon owner Shelley Luther   
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   Luther defeated her challenger with 75% of the vote.   
   AP   
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   “After about a month, my hairstylist were calling me saying I can’t feed   
   my kids, I don’t know what to do, so we just made the decision to open   
   back up, and I ended up in jail,” Luther told Fox and Friends.   
      
   “I wasn’t super political before any of this, but I’m like, you know,   
   somebody has to do something about this. And so we ran for our first   
   office shortly after that.”   
      
   Host Rachel Campos-Duffy noted that during the pandemic, some salons   
   were allowed to stay open — specifically those which catered to   
   Democratic leaders like then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Chicago   
   mayor Lori Lightfoot.   
      
   Dallas officials issuing a citation to salon owner Shelley Luther for   
   reopening her Salon A la Mode against COVID-19 regulations, April 24, 2020.   
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   Luther was only released from jail when Gov. Abbott personally intervened.   
   AP   
   Luther said she was lucky to be alive after having suffered a brain   
   injury during the campaign.   
      
   “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 … I knew it was   
   my time,” she said.   
      
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