Porn star Stormy Daniels switches to GOP after sex club flap
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana-born porn star says that if she goes through with a run for the U.S. Senate, she will campaign as a Republican.
In a Tuesday news release making light of a recent Republican spending controversy, Stormy Daniels notes that the Republican National Committee picked up a nearly $2,000 tab at a sex-themed California nightclub. Daniels’ statement says she was a lifelong Democrat, but that the Republicans best espouse what she called her "libertarian" views about sex and money.
Daniels, whose political spokesman has a history of working for Democrats, is to announce April 15 whether she will run against Republican Sen. David Vitter.
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The state and national Republican Party reacted to Daniels’ statement by accusing state Democrats of arranging a publicity stunt, noting that her political spokesman, Brian Welsh, has a history of working with Democrats.
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Kevin Franck, spokesman for the Louisiana Democratic Party, said neither the party nor the Melancon campaign recruited Daniels.
"If the Louisiana Republican Party is uncomfortable with a Republican challenger who has a history of selling sex, I would suggest they reconsider standing by an incumbent with a history of paying for it," Franck said in an e-mailed statement.
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