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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKansas lawmakers WILL NOT BE DENIED their lap dances........
A Kansas legislative committee voted Friday morning to kill legislation that could have effectively banned strip clubs and lap dances in the state.
The state House Federal and State Affairs Committee used a voice vote to kill the measure, referred to as a ban by state legislators and designed to place zoning restrictions on where strip clubs could set up shop. The zoning restrictions included prohibiting strip clubs from within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds, day care centers, libraries and churches.
The Friday vote to kill the bill came shortly after the same committee had amended the legislation, removing provisions that would have strictly regulated what happened inside strip clubs, effectively banning them from the state, according to legislators. The provisions also would have prohibited lap dances and semi-nude wrestling and tumbling. Committee members argued that even with the amendment that removed the provisions and preserved only the zoning restrictions, if the bill had passed, the full House of Representatives would likely have sought to reinstate the broader bans.
State Rep. Brett Hildabrand (R-Shawnee) told The Huffington Post that he voted against the final bill -- despite authoring the amendment that preserved the zoning restrictions -- because while he thinks local governments should have the authority to regulate zoning, he more broadly believes the government should not regulate business. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/kansas-strip-club-ban_n_2837302.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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Kansas lawmakers WILL NOT BE DENIED their lap dances........ (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2013
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sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)1. Same group that wants to ban contraception and abortions.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)4. Consistent with their agenda of exploitation
women are madonnas or whores to them.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)2. It's a fucking shame when a GOPer gets caught between
them damn religious nuts on one side and those damn business assholes on the other.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)3. read this article
and replace
strip club with woman's health clinic.
jello wrestling with vagina probe
lap dances with birth control
from the article:
"I am of the belief that even though I may not support a business, it is not the government's job to regulate it out of existence," Hildabrand said.
Nope, no irony there.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. Such F***ing hypocrites!
They make me sick.