Daniel in the lion's den: Tampa's RNC strip club conundrum

They may not legislate like it, but let's face it: Most Republicans dig sex as much as the next delegate. Witness the vast influx of strippers, escorts and other sex workers to Tampa for the RNC. They're not all here just to service the visiting news media.

Even the pro-GOP Christian Broadcasting Network worries about the souls of the RNC delegates in the face of the temptation of N. Dale Mabry, Adamo Drive and Drew Park and their concentrations of stip joints. A CBN broadcast last night tied in the issue of human sex trafficking to the RNC and Tampa's world-famous gentlemen's clubs, pointing out that some of the establishment even added special tented entrances so that visiting conservative patrons would not be visible to the general public, paparazzi or others surveilling them:

There's a dark side to nearly any convention, and it appears the Republican National Convention is no exception.

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