Friday, November 04, 2011

Strip club operator gives $500 to Danny Thompson's campaign

Greensboro city council representative Danny Thompson of porn fightin' fame, accepted a $500 campaign contribution from a local strip club operator in September (here, p. 9).

As noted by a commenter on Joe Guarino's blog, according to state ABC records, the contributor is the manager of the company that holds the liquor license for the strip club Copa Rocka Cantina.

(Secretary of State records list the contributor as president of the company.)

3 comments:

  1. That's not his only club.

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  2. I thought I remembered talk of another, I figured one would suffice. Thanks for your initial help in getting the facts out.

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  3. In a 1983 Regulation Magazine article/essay written by Bruce Yandle [Clemson University] entitled “Bootleggers for Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist”, Yandle explains the Bootleggers and Baptists public choice theory proposition. (1)

    You are reporting on a known-known in politics. Your particular post is merely reporting on a derivation on the Bootleggers for Baptists proposition. “The politician effectively acts as a go between, taking the bootlegger’s campaign contribution and citing the preacher’s morals in speeches”.

    (1) Bootleggers for Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist, Regulation 7, no. 3 (1983)

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