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Following an extensive remodel, the Penthouse Club in Tampa, Fla., is finally ready for next summer's Republican National Convention.
Club operator DeWayne Levesque has installed two secluded VIP sections, which will help his club attract a bigger share of the 50,000 visitors expected to descend upon the city on Aug. 27 for four days of conservative politics.
In addition to the club's new carpets and furniture, the private rooms are designed to provide cover so that camera-shy donors, politicians and aides can enjoy the strippers without fear of getting caught.
A few blocks from the Penthouse Club, another strip club owner, Joe Redner, said he has high hopes for what the convention means for business at his all-nude club, Mons Venus.
"I'm guessing we'll make five times as much in a night as we usually do," Redner said. "Republicans got plenty of money. They take it all from poor people".
Mons Venus typically closes at 5 a.m., but Redner said he would be willing to keep the club open 24-7 during the GOP convention.
Redner's got a few bones to pick with GOP policymakers.
"Republicans keep saying this stuff about how if we tax the rich, then small businesses won't be able to grow. But I'm a small business owner, and I put all my money right back into my businesses in the form of capital improvements, which I don't pay taxes on anyway. So their argument isn't how reality works."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/adult-industry-2012-gop-convention_n_943906.html?google_editors_picks=true
Club operator DeWayne Levesque has installed two secluded VIP sections, which will help his club attract a bigger share of the 50,000 visitors expected to descend upon the city on Aug. 27 for four days of conservative politics.
In addition to the club's new carpets and furniture, the private rooms are designed to provide cover so that camera-shy donors, politicians and aides can enjoy the strippers without fear of getting caught.
A few blocks from the Penthouse Club, another strip club owner, Joe Redner, said he has high hopes for what the convention means for business at his all-nude club, Mons Venus.
"I'm guessing we'll make five times as much in a night as we usually do," Redner said. "Republicans got plenty of money. They take it all from poor people".
Mons Venus typically closes at 5 a.m., but Redner said he would be willing to keep the club open 24-7 during the GOP convention.
Redner's got a few bones to pick with GOP policymakers.
"Republicans keep saying this stuff about how if we tax the rich, then small businesses won't be able to grow. But I'm a small business owner, and I put all my money right back into my businesses in the form of capital improvements, which I don't pay taxes on anyway. So their argument isn't how reality works."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/adult-industry-2012-gop-convention_n_943906.html?google_editors_picks=true