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Sloan said the Furer allegations have only surfaced in recent months and that it took time to assemble information for the complaint, which cites Senate records and news reports. She acknowledged that the committee is unlikely to take up the matter before the election, and added that they may do nothing about it later.
“The committee never takes up much of anything,” she said. “Just because they don’t do their job doesn’t mean I’m not going to do mine.”
Vitter apologized in 2007 for a “very serious sin in my past” after it was disclosed that his phone number was among those called several years earlier by a Washington-area prostitution service. CREW sought an ethics investigation in that matter. The panel declined, but, CREW said Wednesday, reserved the right to investigate later. CREW has a complaint pending with the Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel alleging Vitter violated rules of professional conduct.

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But the provision requiring drinking establishments to close by midnight most days and 1 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday dominated the debate, with detractors saying the rules suffocate businesses, threaten livelihoods and unfairly and unwisely discriminate against certain night spots based on geography. Strip clubs and other adult businesses, formerly icons of the district, must now phase out altogether by the end of 2012.
Parish officials held steadfastly to the last-call rule, saying it will help produce a genuine change of tone in a neighborhood known for rowdiness and decades of resistance to progress. Now that the law has passed, stand-alone bars will have until March 31 to comply with the new limits on their operating hours.
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Bar owners, employees, political activists and others who opposed the ordinance, particularly the closing times, continued an argument they have had with officials about police call numbers, issues with troubled apartments and the fairness and legality of the plan. Planners and officials used tallies of police calls to argue that unruly bars and strip clubs are stifling development in Fat City.

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I grew up in Jefferson Parish, and I worked there too. Back in the day, “Fat City” in Metairie was the nightlife district in da Parish, a hotbed of clubbing, massage parlors, music clubs and restaurants. It was considered to be the “French Quarter” of Jefferson Parish. After a while though, the area turned nasty, with a lot of strip malls, drugs and some violence.
The Meters even played in Fat City in the 1970’s, here shown at the Showboat Lounge.
There are still quite a few bars there, but the area lost its appeal and luster a long time ago. Councilwoman Cynthia Chen-Lee proposed a clean-up of the area that would include revived shopping, dining and residential developments, more consistent with a sort of typical “Main Street” type of design. The proposal also included an ordinance that would close the bars at 1 a.m. (yes, Jefferson Parish bars also have a 24-hour drinking policy, like New Orleans).

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… The most controversial issue… is certainly the hours of operation,” Parish Consultant Michael Lauer said.  “Those are 11am to midnight Sunday through Thursday, 11am to 1am on Friday and Saturday.”
With the passage, beginning March 31, 2011, alcoholic beverage sales must end at midnight on weekdays and 1:00 a.m. on weekends.
Many business owners in the area argued against the changes, and some say they will sue.
The ordinance also bans any new free-standing bars in Fat City and requires existing bars to conform to new laws including sound-proofing, additional security and other changes.
Additional aspects are being phased in, including a two year time frame for owners of “adult use” establishments like strip clubs to transition to something new move to a location that allows such uses or shut down.

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We could barely get the luggage up to our suite at the Intercontinental Hotel before Andrew (also known as Little Hitler) demanded to leave: Come on, he yelled, we dont have much time! We gotta get down to New Orleans to have some fun.
Once we left our hotel room on St. Charles Street and walked across Canal Street, my son Andrew declared with great disappointment in his voice, Mom, where are all the people?
Bourbon Street was nearly deserted. I mean, yeah, it was a Tuesday night, but its been Tuesday nights before in the French Quarter and there had always been lots of foot traffic.
Other journalists were in town covering the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, but there wasnt a whole lot else going on. Strippers were coming out of the clubs trying to entice men with two-for-one lap dances.

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Meanwhile, police officers line the walls of the crowded chamber.
10 a.m. – Joseph S. Yenni Building in ElmwoodIt’s 10 a.m. and the Jefferson Parish Council chamber is bustling. Rarely does the council host a capacity crowd, but today is different – as the large contingent wearing red stickers with the slogan “Stop Sheng Now” can attest.
The silent protest, aimed at Councilwoman Cynthia Lee-Sheng, will likely grow vocal in a few minutes when the council opens up its plan to change regulations governing Fat City for public discussion.
Lee-Sheng is leading the charge to reinvent Fat City along the town center model of urban planning by regulating the store fronts, signs and sidewalks, as well as putting restrictions on what officials consider the less savory businesses — bars and the area’s lone strip club.

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In addition to ceasing alcohol sales by midnight on Sundays through Thursdays and 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays — the provision which has inspired protests from bar owners who say it threatens their livelihoods – the plan adds requirements for soundproofing, security cameras and other measures bars must take to soften their impact on the neighborhood.
In the new Fat City, even the signs will be aimed more at pedestrians. Signs atop poles by the street side, geared toward catching the eyes of motorists, will phase out. Smaller signs attached to buildings, mostly readable to people walking by, will phase in.
It will take years of redevelopment and private investment for this version of Fat City to emerge. Regulating bars and eliminating strip clubs and adult novelty shops are parts of the plan meant to encourage that broader investment.

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The panel of 12 senators hearing the case, however, have sharply questioned defense witnesses at times, expressing skepticism with their arguments. Porteous, who has been suspended from hearing cases, also is accused of filing a fraudulent bankruptcy and lying to Congress when the Senate confirmed him as a federal judge in 1994.
“These rise above going to lunch a couple of times,” Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, said.
Porteous sat quietly throughout the trial, at times shaking his head as witnesses offered damaging testimony. He has not testified.
Two attorneys who once worked with him testified that they gave him thousands of dollars in cash, including about $2,000 stuffed in an envelope in 1999, just before Porteous decided a major civil case in their client’s favor. They also said they paid for meals, trips and part of a bachelor party for one of Porteous’ sons in Las Vegas, including a lap dance at a strip club.

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The doc I saw on Saturday evening was probably the best argument for decriminalizing prostitution Ive ever seen. Director Cameron Yatess The Canal Street Madam tells the story of Jeanette Maier, who was convicted of running a bordello in New Orleans in 2002. Shes the second of three generations of working women, who, in the good times, made a very solid living by servicing big business and politicos of New Orleans. The doc picks up with Maier in the years following the bust, and catches up with her two sons, both whove been in jail for drug offenses, and her daughter Monica, who now raises two children and is no longer in the business. Jeanette reveals how the system prosecutes women while letting the men walk, how she tried and failed to find work doing other things—to be a nurse or a real estate agent—because you cant have been a felon and do that kind of straight work. Most painful was watching …

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Fat City has always felt pretty much the same about the Jefferson Parish Council.
Battle is joined again with an ordinance proposed by Cynthia Lee-Sheng to zone out the sleaze. Right off the bat it would close down the bars at midnight, 1 a.m. on weekends.It threatens an end to civilization as we know it, according to bar owners. Their customers, presumably, agree.
Lee-Cheng may be genetically disposed to raise the tone of Fat City, for her father, the late sheriff Harry Lee, went on a mission there in 1981, when Vietnamese massage parlors were doing a brisk business. Dogged research by reporters from this newspaper posing as customers established that the services offered by the parlors were not restricted to the relief of aches and pains, and the vice cops soon closed them down.

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