Fort Worth-area tattoo business opens despite governor's coronavirus executive order

[TexasTowelie]

HURST -- Tattoo shop owner Ashley Craig couldn’t keep the doors shut on her business any longer.

Saying she couldn’t let her business fail after 13 years, Craig and the staff of North Texas Tattoo Co. reopened Saturday afternoon after being closed for weeks.

“We have been 100 percent closed down since March 17th as requested by the governor,” Craig said Saturday just hours before she opened. “We have applied for all the loans. Our PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) application has been denied twice. Still no word on help from the SBA on that loan. We have run out of our savings and can no longer rely on the government for help.”

So North Texas Tattoo Co. reopened by appointment only on West Bedford-Euless Road despite an existing executive order by the governor to shelter in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article242603436.html

[Chainfire]

1. After seeing the hair salon owner

who defied the orders become a Texas hero, she probably felt she didn't have much to lose.

[ret5hd]

3. Hero and $500,000+ to a gofundme account...

It all makes me puke.

[Blues Heron]

2. Fucking spreaders

gross

[tanyev]

4. Arrested Dallas Hairdresser's GoFundMe Launched Before She Even Reopened

Sorry, meant to reply to post #1 with this:

As far as PR stunts go, this one has been lucrative.

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/

[Javaman]

5. I sympathize with those that have no choice, why?

Because repukes are heartless and care not for the people but for want of money. They don’t support the people that need support, they only cut deals for the rich. The irony to all of this is still a huge segment of the poor right wing that still support this bullshit. The hairdresser was a scam artist, but this tattoo business owner, I believe, not so much. When you are faced with losing your business, then potentially your home and not meeting bills or feeding your kids, what do you do? These are very hard choices that people are looking right in the eyes right at this minute. I don’t agree with the stupid ass hyperbole that the right wing and their minions spew, I don’t care for the right wing supporters that parrot the same tall king points against their own best interests either, but I do, at the end of the day sympathize with anyone that is caught between a rock and a hard place as to how to survive; be they right wing left wing or middle of the road. We are all facing hard times all together and should be understanding of an individuals plight and setting aside their political affiliations.

However, that aside, if anything Democrats in Congress could use this as an opportunity to show those like this business owner exactly how the repukes have failed her. But alas...

[Shell_Seas]

6. Well he did write a new executive order saying people who did this would not face consequences.

What did everyone expect would happen?