Dallas Strip Clubs: Move over Michael Steele: NRCC holds its own racy fundraisers
… We do a Las Vegas fundraiser every year,” NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (R-AL) told a National Public Radio interviewer in July 2008. But when the interviewer described Forty Deuce, the venue for the most recent event, as a strip club, Sessions demurred.
“I’ve never seen that,” he insisted. “It is what I would call a burlesque show where there’s a woman who comes out and has a dress on… Uh, she never gets naked. There’s no nudity.”
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Sessions does appear to have been correct about the lack of nudity. According to the same NPR interview, the women at the club are dancers, not strippers, and they never disrobe further than their underwear. But the burlesque show still appears to fall somewhat short of Republican family values. “It’s probably a good thing that Sessions was given his ‘true blue’ award from the Christian conservative Family Research Council and Focus on the Family organizations before holding his burlesque fundraiser,” Akers concluded.
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