Posted on 09/22/2014 11:26:18 AM PDT by centurion316
The Democratic candidate for governor in Kansas found himself on the defensive this weekend after acknowledging that he was caught up in a police raid of a strip club years ago.
The candidate, Paul Davis, said he was not arrested or charged in the incident and accused Republicans of “a desperate smear campaign.”
“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mr. Davis said Saturday during a meeting with campaign workers. “Nobody has ever accused me of any wrongdoing.”
Recent polling shows Mr. Davis ahead of the Republican incumbent, Sam Brownback, in the governor’s race, a lead based largely on many voters’ questions about Mr. Brownback’s handling of the state budget. But word that Mr. Davis patronized a strip club in 1998, which was first reported Saturday in a small Kansas newspaper, could prove damning in a socially conservative state where there have been recent efforts to restrict or outlaw those businesses.
“There’s still a strong strain of the Kansas electorate that looks at that kind of behavior — even going to a strip club — as very inconsistent with their religious values,” said Chapman Rackaway, a political-science professor ...
Politico drew national attention to the report, which was published in The Coffeyville Journal, a small newspaper in southeast Kansas that publishes twice weekly. The paper has no website but the story spread over social media sites, including Twitter postings that showed the front page of The Coffeyville Journal with the headline, “Dem Governor candidate present at drug raid in 1998.” Mr. Davis, 42, a longtime state representative who is the House minority leader, declined an interview request Sunday, but in a brief statement said he was a lawyer for the owner of the Coffeyville, Kan., club and was in the building when officers arrived.
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That is, of course, the point.
LOL. I couldn’t care less that this idiot got caught at a strip club. I’m just hoping that enough Kansas voters do to shave a percent or two off his poll numbers.
BTW, Coffeyville’s primary claim to fame is the demise of the Dalton gang. They tried to rob two banks on the same day. Townspeople objected and shot the gang to pieces. Four of them killed, with the survivor having 23 gunshot wounds.
Four citizens also died in the fight.
I wonder if that worked with his wife.
From 1998? Really?
Bruce Herschenson lost to Barbara Boxer for the Senate because of a report released five days before election day that he was seen in a strip club in Hollywood. If I remember correctly he was tied in the polls or may have even be leading at the time.
it sounds like the strip club was doing illegal acts as an extra service. He was caught in the raid and then used his influence to do a “do you know who I am” and get out of jail free.
If Christians voted based on religious values they would never vote democrat. This is a non-issue and if Brownback has to resort to these tactics to win, he’s done. There’s nothing to see here, most of us have been to a strip club, no big deal.
What an EXCEPTIONAL choice of phrase!
:: the PEONS were sent through the MEAT GRINDER court system ::
Did you read the article? The source is not the Brownback campaign, but some weekly newspaper in Coffeyville. Coffeyville and the New York Times might think it a big deal, but that says nothing about what Brownback might think. I’m sure he welcomes any help that he can get.
Been to both in Paris and Vegas about 40 years apart.
One of the most visually stunning women I have ever seen was in Crazy2 in Vegas. To this day I never understood why she wasn’t in Hollywood. Just incredible beauty top to bottom.
Not much of a change in venue really, but even though she made a lot of cash there, regular 7 figure contracts should have been a cinch on looks alone...casting couch aside.
If you were the owner's lawyer and doing legitimate business at the time wouldn't you say "I was at the right place at the wrong time."
I’m afraid you’re right. Among the low-info crowd it’s likely resume enhancement.
The didn’t look real and I’ m not talk in’ about surgery,
Representing scum bags is what some lawyers do.
Who would be surprised to see him there going over paperwork.
Really, if the best the republicans can do against this guy is to place him in a strip club 16 years ago they should hang it up.
I can not believe that a lawyer or democrat, let alone a democrat lawyer, has not been in a compromising situation worse than that in the last decade and a half.
Although this brings to mind the time I was 27. I was newly married (like weeks married.) I was a new supervisor in my company. Our company had a golf tournament and afterwards many of the senior managers thought it would be good to go to the local strip club for a beer afterwards—very male bonding. Clearly this was before the women’s movement hit the construction end of our company.
I stroll in behind my boss, his boss, and a couple of VPs.
Out of the corner of my eye comes running my best man’s sister, who was a stripper/bartender there. She comes across the floor yelling my name (I had not seen her in several years.) She throws her arms around me and I swing her around. She starts giving me kisses on the cheeks and telling me how happy she is at getting married.
I knew she was a stripper, but I did not know she worked there.
I stood there bright red. I thought my career was over.
She bought the group a round, and spent the next couple of hours sucking up to my bosses.
I left there kind of a rock star.
That stuff hardly ever happens any more.
Doesn’t matter -
debauchery is a resume enhancer for a DemocRat.
Did you read the article? What led you to believe that this came from the Republicans? It certainly did not come from the Brownback campaign. The article is from the New York Times, no fan of Governor Brownback, and it quoted an article in the Coffeyville weekly paper. Did I miss something?
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