She'll give you a balloon.
Posted on 02/21/2008 9:54:36 AM PST by SmithL
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - especially if you're the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.
That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.
But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn't exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail.
"It's a grueling schedule. ... I had been in Wisconsin and flew to Michigan, and Friday and Saturday I spoke 14 times before the fight," said Janet Huckabee, who called a Chronicle reporter while traveling with her husband in Dallas in response to questions about the trip. "There's little time for anything other than campaigning."
She has made no secret of the family's support for Taylor, the middleweight boxing champ known as the "pride of Arkansas," who had a title bout against Kelly Pavlik in Vegas over the weekend.
But she said she never planned on staying at Hooters for the hot-ticket fight, which also drew such celebrities as Jack Nicholson, Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone.
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I’ve actually been to that Hooters. Thanks for posting.
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Evangelicals aren’t supposed to go to Hooters?
I love hooters.
I agree, no big deal.
maybe she likes to play Bingo..
or sumthin’.
Oh good grief.
It’s not going to shock the “armices of evangelical conservatives” who remember that the Southern Baptists held their convention in Las Vegas as few years back.
They wish she was in a gay bar, it would be a plus for the Chronicle folks.
Where is the wholesome place to stay in Vegas?
So what?
Interesting how the San Francisco Chronicle can debase Las Vegas when Janet Huckabee passes through, but when she isn’t there it’s an “economic center” or a great vacation alternative filled with “family friendly” entertainment???
Sorry poster ... try another smear topic.
11 posts with no pictures. This place is falling apart.
Snopes?
Humm...I guess this was the only fight where she would have been able to lend him her support...I mean its Vegas Baby!
Sure, if you want it wild you can find it wild but it's also a major travel destination.
Well, they let her stay, but they wouldn’t give her a T-Shirt.
She'll give you a balloon.
Here in the South, everybody goes to Hooters, including families. The girls are pleasant and dressed no more revealingly than what you can see walking down the street at any given moment, the wings and burgers are good, and it’s got that basic sports bar atmosphere that people like here. I don’t see what the big deal is.
I see more cleavage on the college campus where I work than I would at Hooters.
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