TX repuke (Nixon) tries to get bill passed barring booze @ strip clubs.

[Bouncy Ball]

No link up yet, just happened today, apparently.

The republican (naturally) who sponsored it said he has to drive past these places on his way to church, so he's going to shut them down.

And I guess he figures the fastest way is to take away the alcohol.

There will be more than a few everyday repukes who will be pissed off if this passes in the Senate.

Edit, link at bottom of thread. Amendment was tabled. Lots of information on this at link.

[xray s]

1. This is huge!

The titty bar vote in the Red States is substantial...

[charlyvi]

7. Damn your hide!

I'm cleaning vanilla ice cream off my keyboard!

:spank:

[RobertSeattle]

18. Isn't there are stat about that?

Where there are more titty bars per capita in Red States than in Blue?

(I'm being serious)

[xray s]

32. Gotta be true

I am from Illinois, where titty bars a few and far between. Not too many whacky fundie types around here either, as ex-Senator candidate Alan "I'm Shakin'it" Keyes will attest.

But I also used to travel quite a bit to the south (VA, NC GA and TX in particular).

I tell you what. There is almost a titty bar in every strip mall (oops! no pun intended). You have your classy titty bars, in old car dealerships and such, and you have your "knife and gun club" titty bars, just hole-in-the wall dives.

It seems to me there is a direct relationship to titty bars and bible thumping Republicans, per capita.

[Walt Starr]

2. Aren't Texans rather fond of their booby bars?

Just sayin'

[Bouncy Ball]

5. You could say that.

:rofl:

[dsc]

3. Ohio has had laws like this for years

There are juice bars at which the strippers can be toppless and wet bars where they can't. I am surprised TX hasn't had a law like this.

[evlbstrd]

25. Same in MO.

Pasties = alcohol.
Full Frontal Nudity=juice.

[sallyseven]

27. Well know wonder they vote stupidly

in Ohio. They are confused.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Thought being 'wet' or 'dry' was a county choice in good, old, Texas.

Where or where will all the repub office holders hang out now?

[ClassWarrior]

6. It'll never happen. Those bar owners donate big bucks to the...

...greed-mongers in the Republicon Party.

NGU.

[democracyindanger]

8. Hilarious. Yeah, the customers are going for the alcohol

There used to be (may still be) no-alcohol strip bars in Oregon, so they could get the 18-year-old market. They did a nice business.

[Selteri]

9. Well, there goes their big income maker

People tend to like to drink as they watch a woman humiliate herself in front of a bunch of horny men.

This comming from a horny man who doens't like to go to strip clubs because I find them boring because I DON'T DRINK.

[unhappycamper]

10. Is that a designer Cone of Silence on your dog?

I know, I know, my question is off topic - but - I just had to ask.

[Zen Democrat]

11. That'll be DOA in the Texas Senate. No doubt about it.

[autorank]

12. Bouncy Ball, I love you, but this is a cruel joke.

I was in Texas frequently over a two year period in the early 90's. That's when you could drive around with a mixed drink in your hand as long as you were not drunk. I do recall some of the artistic dancing establishments (gave a whole new meaning to Western style chaps).

You are toying with us, foisting a cruel joke, trying to make us believe the Sun rises in the West.

This is very good but my entire world view will have to be adjusted if I know that Texans have finally allowed this sort of thing to happen.

Think of all the Dallas and Houston college students who will be out of a job as artistic dancers, well strippers?

Not funny.

:freak:

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Eh?

No I'm not joking and I'm still looking for a link. Found out from someone who was there.

[autorank]

26. Amazing!

[Maddy McCall]

17. And my ex-husband will have to find a new form of entertainment.

:silly:

[slutticus]

13. This will never fly in Houston.

Tittie-bars are about 30-45% of the economy here.... :D

[tanyev]

20. I heard that one of the main reasons conventions

come to Dallas is all of the gentleman's clubs. This will never pass.

[Double T]

15. And Next Week The Texas House Will Pass A Bill Requiring......

......A prayer be said in between each strip club act. Keep shutting down more businesses and there goes the sales tax receipts. Idiots !!!

[Brian Morans]

16. Vast majority of "gentlemens club" punters and porn consumers

are republicans. Pathetic.

[BigBearJohn]

19. Yeah, don't drink while you're cheating on your wife, retard!

[Bouncy Ball]

21. Ruh-Roh!

Amendment got tabled!

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/05/6House.html

A Houston Republican who complained that he must pass six topless bars on his way to church offered a proposal that would have barred selling, consuming or possessing alcohol in sexually oriented businesses.

Saying Houston is becoming known as "the topless capital of America," Rep. Joe Nixon acknowledged, "I'm trying to shut these places down."

Nixon offered his proposal as an amendment to House Bill 2544, which keeps the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission as a state agency but directs it to focus more on enforcement of alcohol laws that affect public safety.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. Peggy Hamric, R-Houston, urged the House to defeat any amendments to the measure. She and other members chastised Nixon for making the members vote on a controversial amendment instead of filing a separate bill.

MORE at the link

[Career Prole]

30. SAVE the titty bar entrepreneurs!

They'll make the sacrifice of finding a different route to church for the economy's sake!

[Straight Shooter]

22. *ahem*

xray s spells it titty, slutticus spells it tittie.

Can someone please confirm the spelling for me so I can write a properly outraged letter to Rick Perry? Spellcheck recognizes neither word.

Thank you ever so much. :P

[Bouncy Ball]

23. I say it's "titty."

Look in dictionary.com

[slutticus]

24. Damn....I knew the spelling looked funny

Someone needs to tell skinner that the spell-check is broken! x(

[xray s]

34. I defer to Google dictionary

http://dict.die.net/titty/

[blogslut]

28. Alcohol sales

...or alcohol period? There's a difference.

Regardless, silly Texas pol. Zoning laws should take care of the church/titty bar problem.

[Bouncy Ball]

29. Both.

No drinking or selling on premises.

Boy THAT would have thrown a wet blanket on things, wouldn't it?

Oh and he's just upset that he has to drive PAST them. They aren't near his church.

[MazeRat7]

31. Yup... First the cheerleaders, now the strippers, whats next ?

[Gold Metal Flake]

33. In my youth in Texas they used to have blue laws.

Things like you could not buy tools or some types of tools on Sunday. If the fundies want to restrict alcohol and such, let them. Anything that provides frequent irritation to the general public is gona help us outta this fundie funk faster.

[LiberallyInclined]

35. that's how it is in Illinois already-

you can't combine alcohol and nudity.

[xray s]

36. not for money...

But surely, a glass of champaign and a au natural dip in the hot tub is not illegal in the Land of Lincoln!

[Atman]

37. It's like that in CT, sort of

The "naked" part of the club is open to anyone aged 18 and up, and serves only soft drinks. You just walk over the non-naked bar where the dancer wear g-strings, pasties, whatever, get liquored up, then walk back over to the titty side.

You can't stop titty bars and porn. There is alway some loophole waiting to be exploited. In fact, I think that was the plot of "LUSTY LAWYERS: PART XII," Starring F. Me Daily.