Perriello's place: When free speech collides with private property

Perriello's place: When free speech collides with private property

Victoria Snapp, owner of Three Esthetics, a downtown salon, was growing concerned when some of her regular customers started skipping appointments, and it became apparent politics were causing trouble for her upscale hair coiffery.

"It was turning into a nightmare," says Snapp. "Last week," she says in mid-November, "we had three different assemblies, and the smallest was 17 to 20 people."

It seems that the pro-business protesters who regularly swarm the parking lot to give an earful to Congressman Tom Perriello, Snapp's neighbor in the Glass Building, were putting the hurt on her business.

"We're a full service spa," she explains. "You want to get a massage to step away from the world. The last thing you want to do is go through a screaming crowd while trying to relax."

It wasn't just screaming. On November 10, a bus with a public address system was blaring music that could be heard inside Snapp's treatment room, as health-care reform protesters and counter-protesters tried to outdo each other.

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