Brothel Owner running for New York Governor (as a republican - go figure!)

[LynneSin]

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20100303_MADAME_GOVERNOR__Brothel_owner_in_Spitzer_scandal_declares_run_for_office_in_N_Y_.html

MADAME GOVERNOR? Brothel owner in Spitzer scandal declares run for office in N.Y.
By Howard Gensler
Philadelphia Daily News

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A FEW YEARS BACK, Kristin Davis ran a brothel in the heart of Center City Philadelphia.

Now she's running for New York governor.

Her skills seem well-suited for politics.

Davis, known as the Manhattan Madam for her involvement in the sex scandal of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, announced her candidacy Monday at New York's Roosevelt Hotel, and although some won't take her run for public office seriously, neither she nor it is a joke. Davis has a platform and an advantage - a little black book filled with the names of rich and powerful men who want their names to stay in that book.

Negative campaigning against Davis won't be easy for some politicians and pundits: She may have hooked them up with prostitutes, and she's happy to acknowledge she hooked them up with prostitutes. (Her Philadelphia operation opened in 2006. See sidebar.)

"I'm assuming that the loudest person against me will be a former client," Davis said Friday, when she sat down with the People Paper at Manhattan's aptly named Rogue restaurant/bar. "The loudest voice is usually the biggest hypocrite."

It was a perfect day to meet with the madam-who-would-be-governor: Gov. David Paterson had just announced he would not seek re-election due to a scandal in his administration, and the House Ethics Committee found longtime Manhattan congressman Charles Rangel violated House rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean.

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Ironically, Davis said, "Being a prostitute is not considered a sex offense. Being a madam is."

Davis said she views herself as a Libertarian/Republican, but she's old-school conservative - lower taxes, less government - not morally conservative.

The key to her platform is that prostitution, marijuana use and gay marriage should all be legal.

"It's a huge disgrace that New York has been unable to pass a marriage-equality act," she said. "They're all a bunch of cowards."

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Sounds like she's old-school republican, which honestly they aren't frothing at the mouth type folks.

[devilgrrl]

1. Of course she's running as a Republican - she doesn't want alienate her regular customers!

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[no_hypocrisy]

2. No new taxes on prostitution.