Anti-Lockdown Salon Owner Shelley Luther Wins Texas State House Race

A new generation of liberty conservatives are being elected nationwide

Shelly Luther, a Texas woman sent to jail for running her salon despite Wuhan virus pandemic lockdowns in 2020, won her race for Texas State House District 62 on November 5, 2024. She defeated her Democratic rival Tiffany Drake by a 78% to 22% margin.

Per Fox 4 Dallas,  Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé found Luther guilty of civil and criminal contempt of court and ordered her to spend seven days in jail. Luther refused to close her business during the lockdown. The salon owner would eventually be released thanks to the intervention of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. 

“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 said to 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.”

Luther revealed that she suffered a brain aneurysm during the campaign rail, which could have ended her life. 

“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 stated.

With Luther being elected, the Texas state legislature will have another principled liberty conservative among its ranks. The Texas House (86-63) and Texas State Senate (19-12) have solid Republican majorities so there’s no excuse for Republicans to go on offense and carry out the will of Republican voters. 

The time of politics as usual is over.