Hyper-Puritan Dallas City Hall Poised to Settle Exxxotica Lawsuit - Costing Taxpayers $650,000.

 Dallas City Hall Poised to Settle Exxxotica Lawsuit. 

 When the event wrapped, city officials reported that officers saw no problems — “no increase in reports of sex trafficking, no spike in prostitution, no violations of the state’s obscenity laws.” But that didn’t stop the city from subsequently initiating in a clusterfuck-level battle with the show. When organizers began to work with convention center officials on a contract renewal to hold future events in Dallas, the mayor’s office got involved. According to the Dallas News, nonprofits that worked with victims and survivors of sex trafficking wanted the show banned, insisting it was exploitative. Dallas land owner Ray Hunt and former US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison also got in on the anti-Exxxotica action. The city council was warned by several members and the then-City Attorney that the convention didn’t violate any city ordinances and that banning the event would likely violate its constitutional rights. Regardless, the mayor and seven council members voted in February 2016 to ban Exxxotica. Exxxotica sued two weeks later, claiming that the council violated its First Amendment rights.

I always wonder when taxpayers will wake up and insist that city council members, and politicians in general,  stop wasting a gazillion dollars a year just so some douchey fundamentalist leaning "leader" can try score some political points with the far right flock of sheep. When cities go broke, and they have to raise taxes, or float new bonds increasing property tax, whatever it might be, to increase revenue because they wasted so much money on moronic issues like these...its hard to feel sorry for the voters, because they elected these stupid bastards. I'd just tell the politicians and the voters that elected them to kiss my....:)