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EXCLUSIVE: Oregon OSHA Can't Prove Salon Owner Is an Employer, Proceeds With $14k Fine Anyway
Jeff Reynolds

[pjmedia.com]

In an exclusive interview with PJ Media, salon owner Lindsey Graham, of Salem, Ore., said that she had a hearing with Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) in her ongoing fight against fines for reopening Glamour Salon. OSHA fined her $14,000 for creating an unsafe work environment, despite being unable to prove that she has employees. As a salon owner, she leases stations to hairdressers who qualify as independent contractors. Despite having no proof, OSHA said they would fine her anyway.

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Graham has fought back since May 2020, when she defied Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown and her executive orders shutting down “non-essential” businesses to slow the spread of the CCP coronavirus pandemic. Graham has faced withering harassment by the state, including OSHA inspectors, fines, and even a spurious investigation opened against her family by Child Protective Services (CPS).

OSHA granted Graham and her attorney a hearing last week to discuss the $14,000 fine. In that hearing, her attorney asked the agency to produce the evidence in her file showing that Glamour Salon had employees, thus granting OSHA jurisdiction to levy fines for creating an unsafe working environment. Graham has fought the fines since May, as she doesn’t have employees and shouldn’t be under the jurisdiction of OSHA. When asked to produce the evidence in the hearing, OSHA hemmed and hawed and could not come up with anything.

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Graham told PJ Media that not one case of COVID-19 has been traced to her salon, despite continual operation since she defied the initial shutdown order in May. “It’s fantastic for me,” she said, “to let the time go by and just let science prove that there is no hazardous workplace. My salon never was hazardous and no one is testing positive for COVID.”

OSHA attempted a compromise, Graham said, by allowing her to pay her fine in installments. “No, I’m not paying the citation,” she said. “I’m going to keep fighting it. It’s costing me a ton in attorney fees, but I don’t care, because if they are going to abuse their authority, according to their own guidelines and rules, there’s nothing stopping them from doing this in the future.”

Judges appointed by Democratic governors and legislatures could thwart her plans, of course. “Hopefully we get a judge that has a conscience and has a moral obligation to uphold the law,” Graham said. “There is no evidence that I was acting as an employer, and also, the wrong statute has been cited on the citation and it doesn’t apply to me. And so there’s two humongous reasons to have this thrown out.”

Graham compared the heavy-handedthat is regulations over the CCP coronavirus pandemic to an abusive relationship. “I have a theory about what the government is doing to us,” she said. “Having been a woman who’s been in a physically abusive relationship, I could tell you the steps that abusive partners take to make sure that that person stays in the cycle with them. They tear you down emotionally, physically, mentally. They make sure that you are aware that you are a lesser person. And therefore you are bound to this person no matter how they treat you. You don’t have the fight in you because you know that you couldn’t go do something better. You don’t even know what you’re fighting at this point. That is exactly what the government is doing to us.”

OSHA is clearly dragging this out, Graham says, because she’s just one person with a small business and a family, and they’re hoping to drain her resources. “I’m just a mom with a salon,” she said. “They basically, I think, expected me yesterday to say I’m just going to pay the citation and be done with this, but I’m not I’m not done. It’s draining. Not draining enough for me to say that for the rest of our American lives and our children’s American life, they can do what they did to me, and they can do it to anyone else, and no one’s going to stand up. And so I just have to keep fighting it, whether I want to or not.”

Her opponents have resorted to ridicule, which Graham has used to her advantage. A critic referred to her as Patriot Barbie on social media, so Graham decided to turn that into a URL and an apparel line. The website, PatriotBarbie.com, links to her 501c3, where she takes donations for her legal fight as well as donations for other businesses that fight back against Kate Brown’s arbitrary lockdowns. She also has an apparel line, the proceeds of which she will donate to charity.

You can hear the whole interview with Lindsey Graham at the Behind the Curtain podcast here.

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Krunoslav 9 Dec 4
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I like how she compares it to an abusive relationship. I've been seeing the parallels too.

When she first came into view, it was because her and a bunch of armed citizens were defending her shop from rioters. She didn't even know them. She put out a plea for help on Facebook and a dozen and a half men with shotguns showed up.

Then, she was shut down by the Government and csd came and herassed her family, treating her like a criminal and interrogating her kids without their parents presence. These are little bitty kids.

All these lefty communists are being oppressed by the hire ups so they take their abusive relationship and project their misery into abuse of those they can't defend themselves. Its tyranny scaled down to almost every cop, every public worker. They all have a boss and that boss had a boss and they all tyranny each other in S/M style relationship without any love, only hatred and fear. It make me sick to my stomach seeing stuff like that. But if people don't rise up on mass soon, they will rename slavery into some noble sounding slogan and go full steam ahead with the Communist central planing and party of globalist psychopaths. Truly the answer to 1984 is 1776.

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Everyone wonders why the little businesses keep getting called on the carpet for "violations" of various restrictions, while BIG BOX businesses don't!!!
I am a "layman", I do not have a degree in anything, except IMHO "common sense"!!!
I do have a bit of understanding of legal terminology from 25 plus years of Law Enforcement!!!
The way I see it is; BIG box businesses are interstate and therefore under jurisdiction of the Federal Government in many ways, Mom and Pop business are intrastate and therefore controlled by state laws!!!
One of the ways Socialist plan to control is by being able to control ALL business throughout the country, one law for all, no States rights, only Federal!!!

Serg97 Level 8 Dec 4, 2020

At this stage law does not apply no matter what it is, this is treason and communist take over around the world in almost all the governments. And when people can't eat by the millions or can't pay rent or take care of family , what does it matter what law it is? In India they had mass protest, estimated 250 million farmer. That is the only kind of language communists understand and until across the world people rise up in truly massive protests , I don't see these tyrants big and small backing away, they will only increase the pressure and move with the Great Communist Reset forward. What is needed is Great Reset of the Communists.

@Krunoslav I am AFRAID that any RESET, either way, will be at the muzzle of a gun!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, it is good to be old!!!!!!!!!!

@Serg97 Pardon my ignorance, but the expression you used "the muzzle of a gun" what does it mean?

@Krunoslav I left out a "t" (since added) , I mean "at the muzzle of a gun", the wrong end of a rifle or pistol, I am sure you can under stand that!!!

@Serg97 Aha, true.

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