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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Yeah, you sure proved that a couple weeks ago. And in 2008. And in 2006.
In that regard, I stand with you.
With Obamacare kicking in, they may have some layoffs to keep their employees under the 50 mark. That being said, I think that prostitution is immoral, destructive, and should never be legal.
Abortion is legal too. Thank God, right?
And I know you can’t wait till all drugs are legal too, right? Woo Hoo.
Why do you say gay bars are worse than prostitution? Come on! Be a good liberal and defend them too.
And while you’re spouting the libertarian talking points here, please elaborate the need for open borders.
If you don’t approve of it...don’t go to a bordello...
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Thats the same liberal logic that tells us...
Don’t like abortions? Don’t have one.
In other words keep inserting your head in the sand.
He’d be OK then if I said his Mom was a whore?
Well....
What's wrong with that?
/s
Killing an innocent child is not the same thing as a crime on one's self.
If people want to do drugs...they will.
Is it the government--that pack of lies--that prevents it? Or is it good sense,
It is you who places faith in the government who rings the bell...who causes alarm.
Our morality is not something I trust the government with. The government has shown it has no morality.
You have no right to accuse. Your intellect is damaged.
Why is that?
Well....
What’s wrong with that?
/s”
Haha
Seems like they’re less about small government conservatism, and more about being the boot instead of the neck.
Sort of a “Get Even Conservatism” I guess.
Most all of these post have a play on words. Had a good laugh on that one.
not whorehouse fans, miss m., just realists,and with enough commonsense and intellectual chops to draw the illuminating psrallels that have appeared on this thread. There will ALWAYS be gambling, porn, and prostitution, at least in the foreseeable future, because people enjoy risk and reward, titillation, and challenging the unknown.We don’t live in a perfect world, and I for one would never go to a prostitute,
having been married for nearly thirty five years, but I don’t begrudge anyone else going to the Mustang Ranch-—imagine if all the prostitutes in this country were able to work in an environment like that! We wouldn’t have these animals called pimps! And no, don’t tell me this politician who runs the Mustang Ranch is also a pimp! It’s the pimp/prostitute nexus that makes the whole enterprise criminal to begin with, with all its attendant complications like drug abuse, and physical violence, and gross exploitation.
I will leave you with two thoughts, the second of which is only two words.They are “just for fun” and don’t contradict
the arguments made above.
1, “Paying someone to have sex with you is like paying someone to let you beat them at tennis” (a friend of British
novelist Grahame Greene (who had a weakness for prostitutes)
said this to him.
and
2. Eliot Spitzer.
I hope you are just egging people on, otherwise, you are one of the most judgemental, hateful people I have run into in awhile. Sort of reminds me of my mother, determined to decide for God who was worthy and who wasn’t.
And the only people currently who are trying to decide what I should believe, what is acceptable and how I should live are the liberals and the democrats who not only believe only they know what’s best for the rest of the country, but are determined to make me agree by force of law.
It is a sin...and a dreadful one.
But what has that to do with the government.
>> what’s your position on exotic dancers? <<
Depends on how “exotic” she is. The missionary position is OK for some, doggie position best for others. ‘Nuff said!
“Depends on how “exotic” she is. The missionary position is OK for some, doggie position best for others. ‘Nuff said!”
Lol. Good answer. I like the way you think.
have at it
Laws are based on moral values. From laws against murder to laws against drugs and prostitution.
Real conservatives understand this. Liberals do not. It is clear which side you take on this fundamental issue.
But in the end, Truth cannot be legislated...it must be spread by the Holy Spirit.
And those who don't get it will receive their punishment eternally.
It is those who believe the government must legislate against sin who believe that God will not do so.
It is the Atheists who legislate morality.
And make no mistake...there are many who call themselves Christian who do not believe in Him.
Murder on the other hand is a crime against another person...that is a different matter
Man cannot legislate conscience...but he can protect man against others who have no conscience.
But man cannot by law protect a man from himself.
The law provides no defense against self-destruction.
I think you mean well, but there is another world just outside the one you know...go there and learn about reality.
Learn about God.
Am I at the right site? I thought for a minute there I had stumbled onto a Pharisee web page....I mean they had all the moral answers didn’t they?? They lived ‘righteously’ right?
“Learn about God”.
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This. This from a person who advocates legal prostitution.
Hoo boy.
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