Kansas’ Democratic gubernatorial candidate said he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was caught in a strip club sting in 1998.
In a statement provided to the Washington Examiner, Paul Davis said he was taken to the strip club by his boss because the club owner was a legal client.
The police showed up for a drug raid but he was never accused of doing anything wrong, the statement said.
The story about Davis and the strip club appeared Saturday in the The Coffeyville Journal, which has no website.
Davis accused his opponent, incumbent Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, of digging up dirt on Davis in order to engage in a “smear campaign.”
Brownback, Davis said, is the subject of an FBI probe into whether his allies “operated influence-peddling operations,” based on their access to the governor.
Davis and Brownback are engaged in a very competitive race. Davis is up by four points in the RealClearPolitics average.
Here is the Davis statement:
