12.14.09
St Louis Strip Clubs: Ex-lawmaker calls Missouri General Assembly a ’scam’
To Yates, the charging of Jetton last week with felony assault against a Sikeston woman was a classic example of the corrupting influence of power. He thought Jetton, an ex-Marine from Marble Hill, “got away from his original principles” as he spent more time with the state’s powerbrokers at dinners and on trips in his tumultuous and highly controversial reign as speaker.
Yates still recalls the first time he began to question GOP leadership. In 2005, Sen. Matt Bartle, a Lee’s Summit Republican, proposed a bill to crack down on the adult entertainment industry. But the measure ran aground after being sent to an unfriendly committee.
Turns out that a timely $35,000 political contribution from the strip clubs to a fundraising committee with ties to a top Jetton adviser was suspected as being a key factor in the bill’s fate.
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