Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said that he would pay the $7,000 fine for a salon owner arrested for defying social distancing orders, and offered to be placed under house arrest to take her place in jail.
Shelley Luthor became the masked face of the anti-lockdown movement when she gave a passionate response to a judge demanding her to apologize and admit she was wrong to re-open her salon amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
7 days in jail, no bail and a $7K fine is outrageous. No surprise Texans are responding. I’m covering the $7K fine she had to pay and I volunteer to be placed under House Arrest so she can go to work and feed her kids. #txlege #TexansHelpingTexans https://t.co/gdtMLAHFV5
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) May 6, 2020
Many others have been outraged at the plight of Luthor, who said she was merely trying to keep working so she could feed her children. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decried the sentence and called for Luther to be released.
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KUDOS TO HER. THE BUSINESSES ARE ALL RE-OPENING IN A WK ANYWAY AND B/C SHE WOULD NOT APOLOGIZE TO THE JUDGE HE JAILED HER. HE DID NOT HAVE TO HE KNEW THAT. IF FEEDING ONES FAMILY IS A CRIME NOW MY GOD WHAT NEXT? I SHUDDER TO THINK. IF TRUMP IS NOT RE-ELECTED AND WE DO NOT VOTE OUT ALL THE DEMS WHO NOW ARE PUSHING THEIR VOTE BY MAIL SCHEME TO GET BIDEN ELECTED AND AS VP WHO KNOWS WHICH MARXIST THEY WILL PICK WE MUST DO ALL WE CAN NOW TO PUSH BACK LIKE THIS WOMAN.