Posted on 12/19/2001 7:19:53 AM PST by dirtboy
GEORGETOWN -- This quaint mountain town's latest celebrity didn't get the boot Tuesday, but the stripper-turned-mayor was warned to clean up her act or face a possible ouster or recall.
"I am very pleased," said Koleen Brooks, the 37-year-old mayor who is also a hairstylist at the Dare-2-Be-Different salon. "I do realize they can vote me out."
The town's elected selectmen met at Town Hall on Tuesday night to air their grievances.
Brooks listened to the list of accusations and complaints that started after some townspeople alleged she bared her breasts in May at a local watering hole, a month after she was elected. Brooks has denied the charge.
"The board is trying to impeach her," said resident Rick Payne, 57, who attended the meeting. "The people elected her. Can you spell 'recall?' Let the people decide."
Most recently, Brooks faced allegations that she was tape recording city officials without their knowledge. Brooks has admitted she wanted to record statements made by the town marshal, but she said she intended to alert him of the recording.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation looked into allegations that Brooks attempted to hire a hit man to do harm or kill a police officer with whom she has feuded.
She was issued a summons last week for disorderly conduct and harassment after swearing at that same officer at a local bar. Brooks said she yelled at him because he was in the bar longer than the allowable time for on-duty officers. The summons alleged that Brooks used a curse word and an offensive gesture.
"Sorry if I cussed," Brooks said of that incident. "I asked him why he had to be such an asshole. I didn't make a gesture."
The CBI never filed charges in the hit-man allegations but continues to investigate whether a town prosecutor who was dating Brooks alerted her of the initial CBI probe.
Brooks accused town officials of conducting a "witch-hunt" and called the hit-man allegations "nonsense."
Brooks said she's being targeted because she wants to change Georgetown, protecting it for middle-income families and resisting efforts to turn it into a retirement community.
On Tuesday, selectmen said town staff have threatened to quit because they are intimidated by her.
"There's more concern on your part about how many bar checks were made, how many cell phones were issued to the police department," selectman Coralue Anderson told Brooks. "There's more concern about that than Interstate 70, than what's happening with the town sewer or water plants."
Four of five selectmen present also discussed a policy that would ban secret tape recording of town officials and clamp down on media leaks. Brooks said the new policies were aimed at her. The board tabled a vote on the policies.
"You want to tell me how to act, how to dress, what to say," Brooks said. "You want me to be all alone in this."
Brooks said she has received lots of fan mail since her saga became public. She said women have also bared their breasts in solidarity with her.
"They feel I'm getting picked on for a lot of things I've done in my life," Brooks said. "I've never made my life a secret."
You think so? A presumably attractive former stripper in the same administration as Joyselyn Elders, Janet Reno and Donna Shalala?
I don't think so. But maybe she might work out as a Clinton intern.
From CourtTV.com
Is the 'Little Bear' still open?
As someone who in the past has patronized strip clubs (not anymore) and has been forced to converse with the women who work there, I can tell you that 99.9% of the strippers I have met had sh-t for brains. Don't mean to demean your profession, as you may be possibly part of the 0.1%.
This is a followup to a story I flagged for you a week ago. If not used on-air as yet, this is a natural for the Show.
Billybob
Wrong town, the Little Bear (where I just happened to meet my wife) is in Evergreen...
Dumb, dumber, or untrustworthy ?
Harper Valley PTA is on the radio as I type this...
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