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Texas ‘stripper tax’ is constitutional, high court rules
8/29/2011 6:30 PM By Steve Korris 
AUSTIN – The $5 cover charge at Texas nude bars is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 26.
The Justices reversed appellate judges in Austin who found the fee violated free speech rights under the U. S. Constitution.
Justice Nathan Hecht found the mixture of nudity and alcohol too dangerous to protect.
“The fee is not a tax on unpopular speech but a restriction on combining nude dancing, which unquestionably has secondary effects, with the aggravating influence of alcohol consumption,” he wrote.
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Legislators imposed what became known as the “stripper tax” or the “pole tax” in 2007, to provide $25 million a year for a sexual assault program and devoting any surplus to health benefits for low-income residents.

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Mr. Morrow has an odd fascination with hatching quirky sex stories about Republican politicians even though he claims to be a card-carrying member of the GOP. A year earlier, he emailed copies of forged documents to the Dallas Blog claiming that former George H.W. Bush Sr. was running a pedophile ring out of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mr. Morrow, in his e-mail to the Dallas Blog, admits to being a self-confessed “patron of Austin’s strip clubs,” but does not divulge whether it’s to meet male or female strippers; and allegedly obtained his information about Gov. Perry from fellow patrons and strippers.
Perhaps, Mr. Morrow is working on behalf of strip clubs that were attempting to abolish a stripper tax that was endorsed by Perry. Mr. Morrow as a source for information about

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Besides Harris, Spence and Benjamin, the other football players named by Shapiro for an article published by Yahoo Sports on Aug. 16 are Vaughn Telemaque, Ray Ray Armstrong, Aldarius Johnson, Marcus Forston, Olivier Vernon, Marcus Robinson, Adewale Ojomo, Dyron Dye and JoJo Nicholas.
During the portion of practice open for viewing Friday, 10 of the 12 players implicated by Shapiro were on the field. Dye and Nicholas were not seen.
The reason for Dye’s absence was unknown. Nicholas is dealing with the recent death of his child, born prematurely.
Shapiro is a convicted Ponzi scheme architect serving a 20-year prison sentence for bilking $930 million from investors. He was a Miami booster for much of the past decade and says he provided dozens of Hurricanes, and some recruits who went elsewhere, with extra benefits such as cash, gifts, cars and even prostitutes at times from 2002 through 2010.

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Texas Supreme Court upholds $5 strip club fee
(AP) – 2 hours ago 
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has upheld a $5 entry fee for customers to strip clubs that serve alcohol.
Lower courts had ruled the fee an unconstitutional regulation of free speech. The Supreme Court brushed that aside with a unanimous opinion Friday, saying the fee is constitutional.
The court says the $5 fee is too small to create a burden on the expression of nude dancing.
State lawmakers created the so-called “pole tax” in 2007 to raise money for sexual assault prevention programs and health care for the uninsured. A coalition of strip clubs then sued to block the law.
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Texas Supreme Court upholds $5 strip club fee JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Updated 04:03 p.m., Friday, August 26, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A $5 entrance fee to Texas strip clubs is constitutional and not an improper restriction on nude dancing, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. Lower courts had called the so-called “pole tax” an improper burden on the free expression of nude dancing and a violation of the First Amendment.
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To avoid paying the fee, strip clubs could simply not serve alcohol, Justice Nathan Hecht wrote for the court.
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Stewart Whitehead, attorney for the Texas Entertainment Association, said the strip club group may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the free speech issue, or go back to the trial court to challenge the fee as an improper occupations tax under the Texas Constitution.
Texas requires 25 percent of an occupations tax to go to public education, which does not happen with the strip club fee, Whitehead said..

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Andrew Clennell and Steve Lewis in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday:
BESIEGED Labor MP Craig Thomson allegedly tried to cover up payments for prostitutes by reversing charges, then processing them on a different credit card.
From Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery:
VANESSA: Let’s gather your personal effects, shall we?
A clerk brings out a locker-basket and reads off a list: One blue crushed-velvet suit. One frilly lace cravat.
One gold medallion with peace symbol. One pair of Italian shoes.
One pair of tie-dyed socks, purple. One vinyl recording album: Tom Jones, Live at Las Vegas. One Swedish-made penis enlarger pump.
Austin (embarrassed): That’s not mine.
Clerk (reading): One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, signed Austin Powers.
Austin: I’m telling you, baby, that’s not mine.
Clerk (reading): One warranty card for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, filled out by Austin Powers.

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Man killed for not paying prostitute
Two men charged in his death
Updated: Wednesday, 24 Aug 2011, 2:58 PM CDTPublished : Wednesday, 24 Aug 2011, 1:07 PM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin Police have arrested two men in the death of Nicolas Sustaita-Villanueva, 43.
Police said Sustaita-Villanueva was stabbed to death on Sunday in the parking lot of his apartment complex in the 8600 block of Research Boulevard by Carlos Kyles, 30, and Joseph Moraga, 26.
After reviewing surveillance video from the apartment complex, detectives noticed that two men were dropped off at the apartment complex by a taxi around 7 p.m. on the day of the incident.
Ten minutes later, the video showed the two men, along with a woman, running away from the apartment. The victim was then seen chasing after one of the suspect’s and an altercation ensued where Sustaita-Villanueva was stabbed in the chest.

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Ryan: In this episode he helps Edwing populate a fashion show with models—Austin, Derek and Nyasha—who all hate each other. During the course of the hour he has a fascinating heart-to-heart with Austin. It’s fascinating because you get to see, side by side, how expressive Austin’s face is versus the contrasting glassy-smoothness that is Ryan. In Ryan’s hand is a mug with Ryan’s face on it, an object you hope Logo is mass-producing to sate demand for breakfast ware emblazoned with the images of Great Gay Leaders In History. At the end of the episode, when all the models are finally verbally assaulting one another and Ryan runs interference, his face finally turns up its corners into an approximation of Christmas Day joy. Grade: A-
Edwing: We finally learn what he does. He’s not merely a stylist—that shop he works at is his own. All those Hansel-And-Gretel-Turn-Sex-Worker garments you see modeled in the fashion show are designed by him. This means he’ll never be a fully-fledged cast member because he’s too busy chasing his own extravagant vision. Insane people need stuff to wear to NA meetings, too. Also, he is still named Edwing and that’s hilarious. Grade: B+

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Paul, a contender in the 2012 presidential race, appeared on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Aug. 19 and was asked by host Martha MacCallum to comment on Robert Morrow, an Austin resident who placed an ad seeking information on Perry’s relationships with women.
Morrow, a supporter of Paul’s, claims Perry is a “family values hypocrite and fraud.” He has accused Republican governor of having extra-marital affairs, although there is no evidence supporting his claims.
Morrow, a self-employed investor supported by a family inheritance, placed a full-page ad in the Austin Chronicle last week seeking to contact anyone who “ever had sex with Rick Perry.”
The full ad placed in the Austin Chronicle reads:
Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry? Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a ‘young hottie’ impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? Contact CASH and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, ‘family values’ hypocrite and fraud.

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An Austin supporter of Ron Paul wants to know if there are any women who have engaged in promiscuous activity with Rick Perry. Paul refused comment on the print ad Friday, saying it would provide something “rather silly” with “too much credibility.”
Robert Morrow, the Paul supporter responsible for the ad, spoke briefly with reporter Justin Elliott of Salon, indicating that the organization noted on the ad — Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy (CASH) — was really just himself.
In part, the ad reads: “HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH RICK PERRY? Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a ‘young hottie’ impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? Contact CASH, and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, ‘family values’ hypocrite and fraud. … Offer not valid for enabling wives wearing Hillary Clinton boots. Note to gay people: If you know the truth about Rick, please QUIT covering for him.”

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