Mayor Takes Job In Strip Club To Pay For His Health Insurance

[matcom]

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.
A year ago, when business was slow at his Smokin' Mayor barbecue restaurant, Federal Heights Mayor Dale Sparks took a side job as a doorman at the town's only all-nude nightclub.

Sparks, 55, said he thought briefly then about what his constituents would think. But after talking it over with his wife of 35 years, he decided it would be fine to sit at the door, check IDs and collect the cover charge.

"The bottom line is (that) what I make being doorman pays for my health insurance," he said. "Still, I knew there would be an issue from a few citizens' perspective about working there."

All went well enough until this weekend, when about two dozen officers stormed Bare Essence, 8485 Umatilla St., with warrants to arrest 10 people, including the owner, DJ and eight dancers.

Dancers Tyisha Lipscomb, 21, and Jennifer Sylvester, 19, were arrested and charged with prostitution. Dancers Sherri Kay Newson, 30, Olga Glazkova, 22, and Petra Sheely, 21, were charged with violating the city's adult entertainment code of conduct for allegedly performing lap dances, which the code prohibits.

Owner Leonid Tsodikov, 42, and disc jockey Donald Macleod, 50, were charged with violating the code and with complicity.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4629602,00.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. The mayor doesn't get health benefits?

[Initech]

2. Has all the makings of a good late-night HBO film.

:popcorn: