Las Vegas Strippers May Influence Global Nuclear-Waste Policy (not satire)

[ursi]

Source: Bloomberg

Jan. 15 -- Tori, a 37-year-old Las Vegas stripper, is an unlikely person to set national energy policy.

As a voter in Nevada's Jan. 19 Democratic presidential caucuses, that's just what she'll help to do when she chooses which candidate to support. The most important issue for her is the U.S. Department of Energy's plan to store spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain, an extinct volcano about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Senator Hillary Clinton of New York ``says she is against it,'' says Tori, who declines to give her last name, citing her day job working with burn victims at a dermatology clinic. ``But before she has my vote, I want to know if she means it.''

Yucca Mountain is a reminder that local issues in America's early caucus and primary states may play an outsized role in setting national -- and in Nevada's case, international -- policy. Iowa voters extracted presidential pledges on ethanol subsidies. Now most Nevada Democrats require candidates to oppose the Yucca Mountain plan -- as all three leading contenders have. Those Vegas vows may be hard to break, even as concerns about global warming have thawed some environmentalists' opposition to nuclear energy.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atQbva4GiWwY&refer=us

[RuleOfNah]

1. There is something deeply poetic about that.

Politics aside, there is something about that. I don't know what, it is kind of like seeing the universe from a new angle. It's like the 20th century burping one last time before going for a walk.

[ursi]

2. Welcome to Nevada!

Don't forget, we have yet to hear from our brothel workers regarding presidential candidates.

[RuleOfNah]

3. "we have yet to hear from our brothel workers regarding presidential candidates"

Are you kidding? The workers know before anyone else!

Thanks for the welcome. I miss Nevada, now that we have more card rooms here.

[damntexdem]

4. Especially their own clients.

;-)

[lildreamer316]

5. Kick from a sister in the biz. n/t

[ursi]

6. Right on!

[aquart]

7. A stripper is not entitled to concerns about her community?

I don't see a headline saying that Men Who Put Dollars in G-Strings May Influence Global Policy do I?

So this is a contemptuously sexist headline.

And you know what you can do with it.

[RuleOfNah]

8. Who said the clients were male or the workers female?

Which of the two has more common sense shouldn't be assumed either.

I'm glad the workers are having influence, although the surrealness is a bit much. :)