The article really doesn’t cover the scandal brewing over golf chart drink girls who were off from their night job. It appears that the Dems were so embarrassed that they didn’t kick the girls off the course until after every golfer was served and the outing was over.

I also don’t believe the line in bold. What isn’t said… Who organized this and was this a flash for cash fund raiser for the Dem party in the Toledo area. It sounds like the organizer should be stripped of his job… but it appears that the

Here is a Sun Times Coverage then the Toledo Blade

Strippers embarrass Democrats

July 4, 2007

TOLEDO, Ohio – A golf outing for local Democrats left some participants embarrassed after they found strippers were handing out drinks at the event. One participant said he saw a woman flash a group of golfers. Others at the fund-raiser said they didn’t see any inappropriate acts.

”Every elected official out there was embarrassed,” said Clerk of Courts Bernie Quilter.

Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz said he saw one woman lift up her top and show her chest to a group of golfers.

She then lowered her shorts, he said.

”What I saw was inappropriate, offensive and wrong,” Kapszukiewicz said.

AP

In the Toledo Blade it appears that they have now decided to add a bylaw into the Dem Constitution a “Higher” standard of conduct than they currently have. Wow. I already thought that they had become the standard of ethical conduct in Ohio. Didn’t they say that in last year’s campaign? Guess I was wrong.

Caught in the backswing of scandal, the head of the Lucas County Democratic Party apologized yesterday for having strippers at a golf fund-raiser last week.

But several elected officials said the follow-through should be the party chairman’s resignation.

John Irish, chairman of the county Democrats, pledged to donate $1,200 from party funds to the YWCA. That equals the “profits” the party received from individuals and businesses in the adult entertainment industry, according to a statement released yesterday. “I understand the embarrassment that it caused the party,” Mr. Irish said in an interview. “I will work diligently to make sure that these things don’t happen again.”

The party will insert a bylaw into its constitution requiring a “high standard of behavior” at its events. After a discussion between Mr. Irish and Toledo Councilman Ellen Grachek, the party plans to form a task force to recruit women candidates for public office. Mr. Irish said the golf outing Friday at Spuyten Duyval, a public course in Sylvania Township, deserved criticism.

Female employees of Scarlett’s Cabaret in Toledo and Club Diamonds in Oregon manned the beverage carts. And at least one woman raised her top and lowered her shorts for a group of golfers.

The elected officials who came forward to describe the event will not be punished for their candor, Mr. Irish said. In the past, elected officials who broke with party leadership in the heavily Democratic county received sanctions, such as a ban on receiving contributions from the party.

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