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St. Louis – from www.stltoday.com – Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder [the dead George Peppard plays him in the movie version] issued a statement addressing allegations that he was a frequent visitor to a Metro East strip club when he was a state legislator several years ago.
Kinder, a Republican who is expected to run for governor, allowed that he may have visited strip clubs as a younger man but denied other claims made by a former dancer who says Kinder was one of her customers.
“Like most people, I am not proud of every place I have been,” Kinder said in a statement released by his campaign. “But this woman’s bizarre story is not true.”
Last week, the Riverfront Times published a photo with Kinder and a woman who has since been identified as Tammy Chapman, 39, a bartender who was previously a stripper at Diamond Cabaret in Sauget. She was also featured in Penthouse magazine in 1992.
The photo was shot in the last several months. It was reportedly taken with Chapman’s phone in a bar — Verlin’s in the city’s Grove neighborhood — where the female wait staffs’ limited attire is advertised as a “pantless party.”
Chapman has since told several media outlets, including the Post-Dispatch, that Kinder focused on her to the point of making her uncomfortable. Kinder, Chapman said, would receive private dances from her at the strip club in the mid-1990s, when he was a state senator representing his hometown of Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Montee searches for lieutenant governor candidate • George W. Bush famously found his running mate in 2000 by tapping the man he had previously chosen to lead his vice presidential search committee.
It would be hard to draw any political similarities between Dick Cheney and Susan Montee, head of the Missouri Democratic Party, except to say that her search for a No. 2 may also end in the mirror.
Montee has been searching for candidates to fill a void on the party’s statewide ticket. Four of the five statewide offices on the ballot in 2012 have Democratic incumbents. But the fifth, lieutenant governor, will likely be an open seat with the current occupant, Peter Kinder, expected to run for governor.
Republican state House Speaker Steve Tilley has already launched his campaign to replace Kinder. But Democrats don’t appear to have many options. Gov. Jay Nixon has reportedly encouraged Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders to run, but he may still be on the fence.
U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, whose seat was eliminated in redistricting, is an obvious choice, though Democrats are wary of having two members of one family on the same ballot. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan continues to insist, despite not raising any money for months, that she will run for a third term.
Then there is Montee, who, as the former state auditor, already has one statewide election victory on her résumé.
Montee says she is “100 percent focused on finding and getting Democrats elected all up and down the ticket.”
But at a recent Democratic caucus meeting, Montee suggested she would step up for lieutenant governor if no other viable candidate emerged.
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