Good: Patrons at about 75 Wisconsin strip clubs are being asked to forget about the barely dressed, gyrating dancers long enough to register to vote. Club owners are posting signs, handing out forms and even providing envelopes and stamps - anything to get customers to register. And some club-goers are listening. Joe Herbrand, of Janesville, recently filled out a voter registration form at The Isabella Queen between Janesville and Beloit. "I was pretty amped about the situation," the 23-year-old said. "I've never been asked if I want to vote." On a similar topic, over spring break I got the chance to hear Granny D speak and she mentioned having stopped into a strip club to ask a few women to vote - and having come out having inspired a new website: Exotic Women Vote.
5/04/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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