Rhino
11-13-2006, 10:35 AM
Seattle Voters Reject Rules for Lap Dances
Monday, November 13, 2006
SEATTLE — Like many residents of this famously liberal city, Iris Nicholas was baffled when the City Council last year passed strict regulations on strip clubs, including a lap-dance ban.
Where did this prudish streak come from?, she wondered.
No bother. The city's voters rejected the new rules by a 2-to-1 margin last week, rendering the city safe for lap dances once again. It was especially good news for Nicholas, who makes her living in black fishnets, 7-inch stilettos and not much else.
"I've worked in other states, states that are supposedly more conservative than Washington but are way less strict," she said after a recent stage dance at the Deja Vu downtown. "The rules are very puritanical here, but this vote shows that people in the city don't have that mentality."
The vote closes one chapter in Seattle's contentious relationship with the strip club industry — a two-decade effort to prevent or, more recently, gently dissuade new cabarets from opening within city limits.
No strip clubs have opened in Seattle since the late 1980s, when the number jumped from two to seven, prompting the city to impose a 180-day moratorium. For the next 17 years, the City Council repeatedly extended the moratorium.......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229043,00.html
Monday, November 13, 2006
SEATTLE — Like many residents of this famously liberal city, Iris Nicholas was baffled when the City Council last year passed strict regulations on strip clubs, including a lap-dance ban.
Where did this prudish streak come from?, she wondered.
No bother. The city's voters rejected the new rules by a 2-to-1 margin last week, rendering the city safe for lap dances once again. It was especially good news for Nicholas, who makes her living in black fishnets, 7-inch stilettos and not much else.
"I've worked in other states, states that are supposedly more conservative than Washington but are way less strict," she said after a recent stage dance at the Deja Vu downtown. "The rules are very puritanical here, but this vote shows that people in the city don't have that mentality."
The vote closes one chapter in Seattle's contentious relationship with the strip club industry — a two-decade effort to prevent or, more recently, gently dissuade new cabarets from opening within city limits.
No strip clubs have opened in Seattle since the late 1980s, when the number jumped from two to seven, prompting the city to impose a 180-day moratorium. For the next 17 years, the City Council repeatedly extended the moratorium.......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229043,00.html