Attorney John Weston was surprised to find that there are only about 35 strip clubs in the City of L.A.. He'd expected more, since there are about 4 million residents in the area - and he was also surprised because a Los Angeles deputy police chief told the city council that the city was considered "the mecca for lap dances," according to the Daily Breeze newspaper.

"What I think they were trying to say was that because most of the jurisdictions in the area have regulations of one form or another, L.A. was a vacuum and theoretically thousands and thousands and thousands of lap-dance clubs would have come in here," Weston analyzed.

Thankfully, 35 clubs were enough, with the help of lobbying firm Afriat Consulting, to gather more than 100,000 signatures on a petition to put the city council's recently-passed lap-dance ordinance on the next city election ballot. Full Story...