Posted on 08/04/2002 10:40:24 AM PDT by eartotheground
TAMPA, Florida — Congressional candidate Chuck Kalogianis says he wants affordable prescription drugs and social security to be the main focus of his campaign.
But his past as a stripper in Massachusetts may get in the way.
Kalogianis, 39, acknowledges his two-year stint with "Men in Motion" more than a decade ago when he was a law student in Boston.
In his act, Kalogianis wore a bird costume that masked his face but exposed his legs. It ended with him doing a chicken dance and tearing off the bright yellow costume to show his French bikini thong to crowds of women throwing money.
Today Kalogianis is a successful attorney in New Port Richey, a family man and an unopposed candidate for a Democratic nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives.
He hopes to unseat Republican incumbent Mike Bilirakis in Florida's 9th congressional district, representing parts of three counties north of the Tampa Bay area.
But the dancer label keeps popping up.
Kalogianis said he's tired of the attention it gets. When he qualified to run, a one-sentence blurb in a local paper about his campaign mentioned his "former job as a male stripper."
He said his performances were tasteful.
"I'll talk about it all day long, as long as the campaign doesn't get sidetracked from important issues," he said this week.
Hah! I knew that politician was a giant chicken. Chase him out of town!
Oh, but the Live Like I Do Brigade probably don't like it.
When a felon's not engaged in his employment,Announcing to the world that you are willing to live outside the boundaries of polite society is no way to get me to want to follow you. If you have turned around from such, well and good--but you then have to lead in that opposite direction. Or else I don't assume that you are superior to Slick Willie, ready to order our armed forces into action for dishonorable purpose.
Or hatching one of his felonious plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's.
He did his striptease in front of women and not in front of males who think they are women.
I haven't checked, but I'll bet this is the only time he cites the Constitution--except, perhaps, for the protection the First Amendment provides exotic dancers in thongs and Big-Bird regalia.A Woman's Right to Choose While I am Pro-Choice, I am not Pro-Abortion. Even though my wife, Kathy, and I find that solution a morally difficult choice, we believe nothing should interfere with a woman's right to choose. It is a private matter between the woman, her doctor or clergy, and her family or loved ones with whom she chooses to consult. It is not something which belongs under government control.
To make abortion illegal would create an underground female society of outlaws forcing women to return to the so called "coat hanger" days of back street clinics. To a place where "surgeons" are unlicensed and without adequate training using primitive tools that risks the lives of the women being (mis)treated.
Anyone harming or invading the privacy of a person making such a tough decision should know: They are breaking the law by violating protections guaranteed by the US Constitution.
I am actually the deejay for Chuck's old show. It was not a true strip show...i t was a male burlesque, they kept their clothes on. And Chuck was probably the nicest guy to work with.
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thanks for the ping. Look at those thighs and drumsticks. LOL
He can't defeat Bilirakis. Bilirakis is half rino and half conservative.
Do we get to see him perform during a debate?
He does get donations
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/campaigns/chuck_kalogianis.asp?cycle=02
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