Family values crowd tastefully holds fundraiser in strip club (with pics)

[Bill]

In their defense, they said it was a very nice strip club.

Apparently the strippers do tricks with the flag. Or on the flag. Or under it. That part wasn't quite explicit.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/but-it-was-very-tasteful-strip-joint.html

From MarketPlace we learn that family-values conservative GOP Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) has been holding fundraisers at a strip club in Vegas. Sessions was publicly livid over Janet Jackson's "liberal values" when she bared her covered boobs during the SuperBowl a few years back (Pete Sessions... scolded Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake for forcing "their liberal values upon the rest of the country" after their infamous 2004 Super Bowl halftime striptease). Sessions was less upset about the boobs shown at his fundraisers at a Vegas strip joint.

Click link for tasteful pics.

[Smurf-Herder]

First off - anybody ever tell you the difference between an adults only strip club and primetime commercial television?

Secondly - you got a link to a MSM news story on this, confirming it? I don't see any picture with Sessions in it, from this blog. All we have is the blogger's word on what was going on; and and pictures of strippers with a flag behind them.

BTW, Mr Administrator, you're linking to a story with partially nude photos. I don't mind the boobies, but I thought we couldn't do that on this board.

[Smurf-Herder]

Okay Bill, I found a MSM news story on it; and it doesn't actually sound all that bad, or hypocritical, considering people are comparing a Vegas Show to Primetime Commercial TV. It's not like he brought his kids with him.

'07 party hosted by Rep. Pete Sessions at Las Vegas adult club draws criticism

11:04 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
gjeffers@dallasnews.com

A political party hosted by Rep. Pete Sessions at a Las Vegas adult club has jaws dropping.

The event, in March 2007 at a club called Forty Deuce, raised money for the Dallas Republican's political action committee, People for Enterprise Trade and Economic Growth.

Aides to Mr. Sessions, a self-described conservative, and others said the act was a mild burlesque show, but some conservative activists were aghast that the event was held at an adult club.

"What's the difference?" asked Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum. "I don't think that it's representative of the constituents of the district. I'm in shock."

Mr. Sessions' spokesman defended the fundraiser.

"This was an event that was from two years ago and it was at a PG-13 venue," said Guy Harrison, Mr. Sessions' chief-of-staff. "It's a retro club that's as risqué as a 1940s film."

The Forty Deuce is a popular Mandalay Bay spot that features a burlesque show. Such routines are considered classier than pole dancing and generally attract just as many women as men. They feature elaborate costumes, but dancers do eventually strip to near nudity.

A review on the club's Web site states: "Jaws drop and drinks are ignored as the tempo picks up and the dancer steps up, shedding boa, gown and gloves towards the electrifying finale. After the show, our celebrity DJ drops in a dance groove and it's dancing 'til dawn!"

Democrats were happy to pile on the congressman.

"He's such a boring guy that a little pizzazz may help him," said Darlene Ewing, chairwoman of the Dallas County Democratic Party. "I thought they were the party of family values, but they are having fundraisers at burlesque shows."

Mr. Sessions has long aspired to join the House Republican leadership, and he has used the political action committee to give campaign money to GOP colleagues.

Mr. Harrison said Mr. Sessions has held the Vegas event for four years. This year, it was at rapper Jay Z's 40/40 sports bar.

"We're always interested in, for our leadership PAC, looking at different venues," he said. "This year we went out to Vegas as well. Every year there's a different thing in Vegas in what is new and exciting out there."

Mr. Harrison said the decision was made not to return to Forty Deuce, though Mr. Sessions didn't think it was an inappropriate site in 2007.

"We always do a review of every trip we do out there," he said. "Obviously we decided to go to a different place this year."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/073008dnmetsessions.3fdea95.html

[LadyMod at scam.com]

In their defense, they said it was a very nice strip club.

Apparently the strippers do tricks with the flag. Or on the flag. Or under it. That part wasn't quite explicit.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/but-it-was-very-tasteful-strip-joint.html



Click link for tasteful pics.


LOL, did you read this comment on the story at the link?


I am shocked. shocked i tell you.

not one of those wholesome burlesque dancing girls is wearing a flag pin...



Too funny.


Lady Mod

[disrupter]

they don't have any ethics or standards,

but they have the most perverse hypocrisy by the boatload.

isn't self-deception the hallmark of a completely non-objective, neurotic species?
It is a high art form.

rationalizing complete fallacy.

If my life & my species & all life weren't under threat it would make a great comedy script.