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.
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Are they sure he is a Democrat? HE is married (to a woman)... AND
He was dancing in to sexually amuse WOMEN.
If he was a democrat he would have been dancing for men...
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"Oh, but the Live Like I Do Brigade probably don't like it."
Considering that most of congress is made up of shameless whores I'd say he's doing pretty well in the morals department.
I though he was retiring...
Bilirakis the senior? Maybe he is retiring. If that's the case, then who's the republican running against the chicken?
You joined FreeRepublic to tell us this????
Its the son of Bilirakis.
This explains much.
The area has a heavy Greek immigrant, decendant population and the best the (neutered) democrat party could do was to get the chiken man lawyer to attempt to neutralize the ethnic issue.
(never mind the fact that most greek families tend to be conservative and voting for a chicken stripper would not fly. They also take pride is who they send into office, I know many greeks who refused to vote for Dukakis because they thought he would be an embarassment.)
we have many FL freepers apparently.
Katherine Harris have big supporters here and they are most vocal if you talk against her. (within a few seconds you will see her on the horse picture...)
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