Co-owner of gentlemen's club leads voter-registration drive

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This is the front page, above-the-fold photo and article in the Plain Dealer. I'll tell you, I am excited about this year. I can feel it!

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The grind of politics
Co-owner of gentlemen's club leads voter-registration drive
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Grant Segall
Plain Dealer Reporter

Politics are so hot this year that exotic dancers are bumping and stumping. "You can register to vote," the disc jockey said every 30 minutes or so Wednesday at the Circus in the Flats. "All you have to do is ask your server." The club supplies the cards, the instructions, even the pens.

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Angelina Spencer is co-owner of the Circus and executive director of the Association of Club Executives, which represents about 800 exotic establishments. She thinks pole workers should drum up business for poll workers.

Spencer says she has signed up perhaps 225 workers and customers. The association's Ohio chapter claims another 5,000 registrants. Participants include the Lion's Den, a chain of adult stores based in Columbus.

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But Spencer was roused by what she sees as recent Republican blows to freedom, not just for dancers but for mainstream Americans.
"What starts in adult entertainment as censorship eventually trickles down into journalism, art, film, music," she said.

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