Letter: Commissioners show audacity on lap dance curbs

Friday, Aug. 2, 2002 | 9:17 a.m.

Ninety-five percent of the public comment at this week's Clark County Commission meeting was against the ordinance to further regulate adult entertainment. Obviously the commissioners (except for Dario Herrera) don't care what the public thinks. On Wednesday they sat in moral judgment of us.

I don't even frequent the clubs, and I am outraged by the commission's arrogance.

Those moral dictators have the audacity to tell an 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old woman (who can vote and die for our country in the military) that she can't make a living in a legal profession.

Unlike the rest of us, Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates has no impulse control. In the public comment session (where voters were encouraged to express their views), she yelled at a prominent physician, "I said shut up!" He was questioning the commissioner's own repressed sexual hang-ups.

Speaking of doctors, I can't believe that the commission wasted our time and money on this benign issue when doctors are being forced out of town. How about focusing on fixing our roads, schools and violent crime problems?

They showed a video of a few illegal acts and made the leap that the whole industry was committing prostitution (which is already illegal). Thousands of adults go through those clubs without incident. This is Sin City, after all, not Disneyland.

JEFFREY S. MARKEWICH