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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polling ... or was it poleing?
Lap dance. Hope everything fit together...PROPERLY ;)
Somebody was getting serviced.
Problem is, the DemocRAT’S 47 percent, locked-in voting bloc don’t give a rat’s rear about stuff like this. As long as they can keep getting their food stamps, welfare checks, access to the abortion clinic and attend their gay son’s marriage to Michael.... They don’t give a damn!
Who among us..............
““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”
He says that like it’s a BAD thing.
Ssssooooo is it still the Democrats War on Women if you are slipping $1 bills in the young girls G-string bikini. Or is just being a perverted old man...
In Kansas, the Democrats can only count on 35-39 %, at least that’s been the trend since we ran Sebelius out of the State.
“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,”
Uttered a million times by nearly every criminal.
“I heard the sandwiches were good in the STRIP CLUB.” Is another.
WEASEL WORD WATCH translation: "I wasn't caught by anyone who could sufficiently incriminate me."
Oh Please...that’s all they got on this guy?
Brownback has to do a lot better.
Who gives a crap. This will backfire since the only people who care are people who are going to vote for Brownback anyway.
You’re joking, right?
Going into a strip club makes you a criminal?
Better lock up 98% of FR. And the male portion of the U.S. military.
Brownback has much more on Davis of a substantive nature and has been saying so in a media campaign and elsewhere. This didn’t come from his campaign, it’s what the New York Times decided was important. I’m sure that they had the same reaction as you, and that will certainly be true in Johnson County (KC suburb). But, elsewhere in the state, even among the members of the Teachers Union, this will go over like a fart in church.
Me actually. I ind it disgusting that someone would be caught in a dive like that.
Crazy Horse 2 in Vegas was awesome in the late 90s ;)
I went to a strip club in my youth, though never got “serviced.”
“Oh Please...that’s all they got on this guy?”
Oh, not at all. I heard that Drudge will soon break a story about the time this guy drank a beer a frat party.
The Horror
IOW he used his influence to get out of trouble while all the peons were sent through the meat grinder court system.
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