The Informer, a weekly periodical distributed in the Cincinnati area, took a firm position againt the effonts of Citizens for Community Values of Cincinnati which would legislate that "non-alcohol adult establishments" (i.e., juice/ dance bars and adult book stores) close between Midnight and 6 a.m. and other injunctions aimed at driving the adult entertainment industry across the state out of business.

CCV's has openly stated this is the intention behind the bill.

As Cleveland's SCENE magazine lamented, "Only in Ohio!"

That's how many felt when they first learned that a small group of "guardians of public morality" named Citizens for Community Values (CCV) from Cincinnati was brow-beating this bill through the Ohio Senate.

THE BAD NEWS: Despite near-universal contempt for the bill and its sponsors (as "idiotic") from the press and others across the state, the bill is set to become law on September 4th.

THE GOOD NEWS: An effort is now underway by dancers, club owners, and their patrons, free speech activists, and defenders of the adult industry and dance clubs for their place in a lively nightlife scene, to prevent the bill from becoming law on September 4th, through a petition which, rather, would put the provisions of the bill up for a vote in the November elections. The petition to put the bill on the ballot will require 241,000 signatures.

The campaign to overturn the law has a new website:
www.citizensforcommunitystandards.org

The INFORMER supports this effort to keep our already economically devastated state from losing yet another industry.

Stop the Strip Club Bill!

-- The Informerr

excerpted from:
"Informer News Vs: Ohio Strip Club Bill."
Citizens for Community Standards. August 3, 2007