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An interesting article today in the Akron Beacon Journal . . .

COLUMBUS - In the battle for credibility that has emerged at the Statehouse between strippers and Citizens for Community Values (CCV), the pole dancers are winning.

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A CCV lawyer told the House Judiciary Committee that courts had ruled a buffer zone that extended on and off the stage was constitutional.

This week, another CCV representative retracted that statement. This gives at least two Republicans on the committee who are concerned about the bill's constitutionality a reason to withhold support until the bill can be amended to their liking.

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And the seven Democrats on the committee sent a letter last Wednesday to Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner asking her to conduct a formal inquiry into the petition drive.

``We do not necessarily believe that any fraud or illegal conduct occurred during the gathering of signatures for the Community Defense Act... however, there are enough questions around the process that we need to be certain that the initiative is properly before us.''

At issue are three companies and four individuals ``implicated in petition-gathering irregularities in the past,'' according to the legislators' filing.

In 2004, when CCV gathered signatures for the ban on same-sex marriage amendment, one of the leading proponents was then-Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. He didn't exactly break a sweat looking for potential violations.

Brunner is expected to be more circumspect of a full-fledged petition drive. So CCV would do better to work the legislature in coming days to pass the law.

The problem is it can no longer ask lawmakers, ``Who you gonna believe, us or the strippers?''

Really, you've got to read the whole piece to get updated on the status of SB16 and the "tactics"  used by the morality censors of CCV. The article is quite humorous in it's condemnation of CCV.