Posted on 11/19/2012 3:07:25 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Brothel owner who employs 80 prostitutes wins election as county commissioner in Nevada... and he's a Republican
Lance Gilman is a thriving businessman with dozens of employees. That those workers include a good many prostitutes didn't faze the people of a rural Nevada county who recently elected him as a Storey County commissioner by a wide margin.
The Mustang Ranch brothel owner is the first such owner to win election to public office in Nevada since prostitution was legalized here in 1971, Nevada historian Guy Rocha said. And he's believed to be the first to do so in the state's 148-year history.
'He's in rare company,' Rocha said. 'Of course, it's going to be rare because the business of selling sex for money is illegal in every jurisdiction in the United States except in rural Nevada.'
Some two dozen brothels legally operate in 10 of Nevada's 17 counties. Prostitution is illegal in the counties that include Las Vegas and Reno, the state's population centers.
Gilman, 68, a self-described 'dye-in-the-wool Republican who loves American values,' said he encountered few objections to his Mustang Ranch ownership during his campaign in the county of 4,000. He won with 62 percent of the vote on November 6.
He is a married father of four with nine grandchildren. All but one of his children, including one of his daughters, work in the family business.
His claims that his bordello, located along Interstate 80 some 10 miles east of Reno, has contributed more than $5 million to the county's budget over the past decade. It has 44 full-time employees, and 30 to 80 working girls, depending on the season.
To 99 percent of the voters, they view it as just a business,' Gilman told The Associated Press. 'It's a prosperous business that's helped the county.'
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you forget perhaps the devastation this is doing not only to the "girls" who "work" there....but to their parents, to their siblings, to their own children.....
and lets even talk about the "men" who buy sex there....what are they doing to their OWN families.....
this is why bammey and his minions are winning...too many soft in the head "let it go" so called "conservatives".....
it is NOT one side being paid to allow some strangers dingdong in private places....
what ever happened to charming women with your good looks and your humor?.....
I can just imagine the balding, fat, slobby types that HAVE to pay someone for sex.....losers....
“.like child traffickers? drug dealing gangs? illegal alien invaders? ACORN?
If they are doing something immoral they need to be called on it.”
Human trafficking, drug dealing, and illegal border crossing are illegal.
Prostitution in Nevada isn’t.
So yes, these women are earning a legitimate living.
You don’t approve and that’s your right, but they’re not breaking the law.
BTW what’s your position on exotic dancers.
And you're going to keep losing elections without us. But really the GOP has damaged their brand so badly and treated them so poorly ya'll might not ever be able to get them back.
legislating morality!! This is injustice!! They just want to "earn a living"!! Legalize it and the problem will go away!! and a bunch of other crap!!
No, libertarians think that individuals should be free to choose a path and live with the consequences. It's a philosophy of freedom and personal responsibility that is entirely compatible with conservatism.
Nobody would force you to be less conservative in a libertarian world.
They *will* be forcing you to be less conservative in a liberal world.
We do better without you. We ARE better without you. Just like the human race.
Gay bars and bath houses ARE legal.
There is little difference between a brothel and a gay bar or bath house. Except in the brothel the women are checked by health officials, while in the gay bar and bath house they buys their ticket and they takes their chances.
“Liberaltarians are the mortal enemy of traditional conservatism.”
So big oppressive government is ok as long as the ones being oppressed are people you don’t agree with or that you’ve judged to “deserve” it.
I just think that legalizing prostitution is better than the government turning it over to pimps and criminals...
Prostitution is a reality...let business control it...not government or punks
I don’t believe it for a second. I have seen the seething hatred from liberaltarians for all things Christian and conservative.
I don’t fall for those lies any more.
The age of consent will be one of their targets. It’s usually not discussed anywhere but deep in liberaltarian forums, but they want your kids just as bad as the homo’s do.
They support the homo intrusion in schools and kids lives, they support abortion (MURDER), they support any and all forms of immorality.
Yes, liberaltarians will also want to “decriminalize” kiddie porn. I have seen that trial balloon a couple of times.
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Liberaltarians are pure seething evil.
...most of these ladies working in brothels....
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Please do not use the term “ladies” to refer to these women. I am a lady.
hell no.
drive it as deep underground as its possible to go.
stamp them and it into the ground
never stop fighting this corruption
I think this thread has flushed out some whorehouse fans! Yuck.
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Ditto.
We don’t all agree that the owner of the bordello is a pig. Sad, isn’t it?
For a minute there you had me believing you. Very funny!
"consenting adults" is two people meeting at a bar and going to a motel after a night of drinking and partying....it is NOT one side being paid to allow some strangers dingdong in private places....
They're both adults, no one has a gun held to their head. Sounds like two adults consenting to me.
what ever happened to charming women with your good looks and your humor?.....
So dropping a couple hundred on lobster and bottle of cabernet is koser, but just being honest and handing over the $200 in cash instead of the Mondavi Reserve is bad? I mean, goods have been exchanged for services in both cases.
I can just imagine the balding, fat, slobby types that HAVE to pay someone for sex...
Ahhh...now we get to the heart of the matter. The pretty people are okay, but the ugly ones, well, they shouldn't even be allowed to buy sex.
hell no.
drive it as deep underground as its possible to go.
stamp them and it into the ground
never stop fighting this corruption
You are bereft of historical evidence.
Rome was decadent...it was legal.
It is Christianity and Judaism which gave birth to America.
It is not laws...it is morality. It is not laws...it is faith in something finer, something enduring...something eternal!
Righteous wins not because of laws which require it. Laws cannot require it.
Righteous wins because it is right.
Holy moley, 1000 dollars is quite an incentive to become a hooker. I’m 73, would they hire me....LOL
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