Why don't you wrongly speak again and kick Scottsdale Councilman Wayne Ecton off the Council and to the curb on his ageist ass! Obviously, he's too stupid to get that he's a dying breed (thank the baybee geezus!) and "young new voters" will one day soon be in political positions of power. Another conservative fuckwit who thinks it's the role of government to legistate his version of morality...
Be gone before a house of ill repute falls on you too!
Voters reacted to moral intrusion
Scottsdale derided for strip-club stance
Casey Newton and Lesley Wright
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 14, 2006 12:00 AM
Morality was at play when Scottsdale voters decided they wanted to protect lap dances at their strip clubs.
The moral for city leaders: Don't impose your values on our businesses.
"I don't think there was a great sympathy for pole dancers," said Jason Rose, a GOP strategist.
Scottsdale voters said "No" to covering up dancers and keeping them 4 feet away from patrons.
The city passed the regulations updating its sexually oriented businesses ordinance in December, a few months after adult-film star Jenna Jameson bought Babe's Cabaret. Upset, strip-club supporters took the issue to voters with Proposition 401.
With an unknown number of ballots left to count, the measure was still losing Wednesday by about 6 percentage points.
Voters seemed driven by a concern that the council had railroaded the clubs and a libertarian distrust of government meddling with small businesses.
"It wasn't a pro-strip club vote," said Scottsdale City Councilman Bob Littlefield, who said he regrets voting for the new rules last year. "It was an anti-council vote. We overreached. We were wrong."
Eric Borowsky, who owns the land under Skin Cabaret, said voters thought the City Council acted outrageously last year when it crafted a new ordinance behind closed doors, with minimal input from the businesses it affected.
"This has never been an issue about the cabarets," said Borowsky, whose son, Todd Borowsky, owns Skin. "It's about backroom politics and secret decisions. The mayor decides she doesn't like your business, so she's going to throw you out of town, even though you've been there 30 years."
Councilman Wayne Ecton, a staunch supporter of Proposition 401, said the campaign was skewed by a well-financed opposition that spread misinformation and registered young new voters who have more tolerance for strip clubs.
"The people spoke," he said. "I don't know if the right people spoke."
The moral for city leaders: Don't impose your values on our businesses.
"I don't think there was a great sympathy for pole dancers," said Jason Rose, a GOP strategist.
Scottsdale voters said "No" to covering up dancers and keeping them 4 feet away from patrons.
The city passed the regulations updating its sexually oriented businesses ordinance in December, a few months after adult-film star Jenna Jameson bought Babe's Cabaret. Upset, strip-club supporters took the issue to voters with Proposition 401.
With an unknown number of ballots left to count, the measure was still losing Wednesday by about 6 percentage points.
Voters seemed driven by a concern that the council had railroaded the clubs and a libertarian distrust of government meddling with small businesses.
"It wasn't a pro-strip club vote," said Scottsdale City Councilman Bob Littlefield, who said he regrets voting for the new rules last year. "It was an anti-council vote. We overreached. We were wrong."
Eric Borowsky, who owns the land under Skin Cabaret, said voters thought the City Council acted outrageously last year when it crafted a new ordinance behind closed doors, with minimal input from the businesses it affected.
"This has never been an issue about the cabarets," said Borowsky, whose son, Todd Borowsky, owns Skin. "It's about backroom politics and secret decisions. The mayor decides she doesn't like your business, so she's going to throw you out of town, even though you've been there 30 years."
Councilman Wayne Ecton, a staunch supporter of Proposition 401, said the campaign was skewed by a well-financed opposition that spread misinformation and registered young new voters who have more tolerance for strip clubs.
"The people spoke," he said. "I don't know if the right people spoke."
Ecton denied club claims that the council wrote the law in secret in an effort to shut the clubs down.
"There were an awful lot of untruths put out by their advertisements and the newspapers," he said. "I think they were really good at going out and getting new people registered to vote. They had a lot of money to spend."
Rose said that although the clubs spent $250,000 on the campaign, they were losing momentum as Proposition 401 supporters got their message out.
More than a dozen prominent elected officials and religious leaders endorsed the proposition. The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce declined to support the clubs, even though Skin Cabaret was a member.
The primary, which took place in a city where Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 2-to-1, was expected to draw mostly conservatives.
"If there were two more weeks to the campaign, I think you would have seen the strip clubs not have such a good night," he said.
But many voters were suspicious that Scottsdale's claims of the clubs' "negative secondary effects," such as the spread of drugs and disease, were only a pretext for creating rules that would drive the clubs away and make south Scottsdale more attractive to developers.
"You know what? We were exposed to those (effects) for 30 years, and nobody cared," said Lisa Haskell, a neighborhood activist who voted against the measure. "They were OK down here for 30 years, but now they want to high-end the city up. This was a way of getting that land."
Bob Grossfeld, a Democratic pollster and strategist, said Proposition 401 lost for the same reason conservative Republican Colette Rosati lost her challenge to moderate state Sen. Carolyn Allen in Tuesday's primary: Supporters overestimated the number of social conservatives among voters.
"These are not ideological conservatives," Grossfeld said of Scottsdale voters.
"These are not the people who think that the jury's still out on evolution. These are Barry Goldwater conservatives who are for limited government. And that includes government that doesn't get involved in things like young girls dancing on old men's laps."
Most City Council members said they have no idea how voters feel about lap dancing. But they know now that voters do not like government interfering with small businesses.
"You don't have to be a libertarian to be concerned about government intrusion into people's lives," Councilman Jim Lane said.
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"There were an awful lot of untruths put out by their advertisements and the newspapers," he said. "I think they were really good at going out and getting new people registered to vote. They had a lot of money to spend."
Rose said that although the clubs spent $250,000 on the campaign, they were losing momentum as Proposition 401 supporters got their message out.
More than a dozen prominent elected officials and religious leaders endorsed the proposition. The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce declined to support the clubs, even though Skin Cabaret was a member.
The primary, which took place in a city where Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 2-to-1, was expected to draw mostly conservatives.
"If there were two more weeks to the campaign, I think you would have seen the strip clubs not have such a good night," he said.
But many voters were suspicious that Scottsdale's claims of the clubs' "negative secondary effects," such as the spread of drugs and disease, were only a pretext for creating rules that would drive the clubs away and make south Scottsdale more attractive to developers.
"You know what? We were exposed to those (effects) for 30 years, and nobody cared," said Lisa Haskell, a neighborhood activist who voted against the measure. "They were OK down here for 30 years, but now they want to high-end the city up. This was a way of getting that land."
Bob Grossfeld, a Democratic pollster and strategist, said Proposition 401 lost for the same reason conservative Republican Colette Rosati lost her challenge to moderate state Sen. Carolyn Allen in Tuesday's primary: Supporters overestimated the number of social conservatives among voters.
"These are not ideological conservatives," Grossfeld said of Scottsdale voters.
"These are not the people who think that the jury's still out on evolution. These are Barry Goldwater conservatives who are for limited government. And that includes government that doesn't get involved in things like young girls dancing on old men's laps."
Most City Council members said they have no idea how voters feel about lap dancing. But they know now that voters do not like government interfering with small businesses.
"You don't have to be a libertarian to be concerned about government intrusion into people's lives," Councilman Jim Lane said.
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