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According to the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 2008, Sen. Hillary Clinton raised $850,000 from zip code 10021, on New York City’s Upper East Side. Clinton’s campaign said that more than 48,000 people gave $100 or less. Even though her campaign transferred $10 million from her 2006 Senate re-election campaign into the 2008 presidential accounts, Clinton said that she spent less than Mr. Obama over the past three months.

According to the Channel 8 News on May 10, 2007, Richard Seigler, a professional football player from Las Vegas, who was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers,

According to the reviewjournal.com on Oct. 30, 2003, legalizing prostitution in a portion of downtown Las Vegas is a bad idea, almost 60 percent of Nevadans said in a poll commissioned by the Review-Journal and reviewjournal.com.

The poll results came in a week after Mayor Oscar Goodman responded to a question in regards to brothels on a talk radio show.

According to the Pahrump Valley Times on Sep. 07/2007, the brothels help sex trafficking. Brenda Myers Powell is a founding member of the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation.

Powell was one of seven women describing the evils of prostitution, both legal and illegal, during a press conference on a report about sex trafficking and prostitution in Nevada Wednesday.

According to the Pahrump Valley Times, Sep. 07, 2007, former Nye County Commissioner Candice Trummell heads a new group called the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking. Trummell said the three goals of her organization are to educate the public, identify needed services for victims of prostitution and “affect a fundamental change in Nevada’s law concerning prostitution, sex trafficking and related matters.”

The Washingtonpost.com has a place for readers to post their answers to the questions PostGlobal puts on the websight. One of the questions was, “should prostitution be legal anywhere?” One reader answered, “Again, I do believe that some prostitutes and escorts are sincere when they say they enjoy their work. But I do have to reiterate that many women consent to this profession because they are forced by pimps, because they do not have a choice or alternative opportunities, or because they have already been devalued or exploited to have a certain image of their worth. Additionally, most women do not have control over their sex work careers as women in the high-end escort service may. Perhaps a new way to pose this question — sex work, like most work, is for money. If prostitutes did not receive any money for their work, would any exist? Or, if there was another occupation that raised the same amount per hour as sex work, which occupation do you think would be selected?”

You can read more about this on http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/2007/01/legalize_prostitution/comments.html

According to http://www.prostitutionprocon.org/questions/prostitute.htm,  Carol Leigh, Founder of Bay Area Sex Workers Advocacy Network (BAYSWAN) and former prostitute, said on “Justice Talking” on National Public Radio (NPR) on Mar. 4, 2002 that:

“Decriminalization is not at all a solution to every injustice that exists in the sex industry; it is a starting point. If prostitution were not an underground activity it would allow us to much more effectively address the serious problems of forced prostitution and juvenile prostitution and the other abuses which are part of an industry that operates completely in the shadows. …[T]here are many who… want other options and they should be given alternatives and assistance. And then there are also those who organize for their rights and are not quitting at the moment and they should be afforded options, their rights, and self-determination as well. Whatever ills are attendant to prostitution, criminalization of prostitutes exacerbates the abuse.”

Here is what I found on an answer to the question: “Do prostitutes want prostitution legalized?” by Norma Hotaling, Executive Director of the Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) Project and former prostitute. Hotaling said in her April 28, 2005 testimony to the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology that:

“As long as we point the finger away from ourselves, away from the institutions that blame and criminalize women and children for their own rape, sexual abuse, trafficking and slavery, away from the men who we normalize as ‘Johns,’ and as long as we disconnect adult prostitution and the exploitation of children and disconnect prostitution and trafficking in human beings for the purposes of rape and sex slavery; then we are to blame and we have assisted in creating well-funded transnational criminal networks – dollar by dollar.”

You can read more about these questions and answers on http://www.prostitutionprocon.org/subviewpoint.htm

There were many people at the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas on Friday. There was a lady by the name of D who wanted to stay anonymous. She worked at the mall and didn’t want anyone to know that. The question of whether or not to legalize prostitution in Las Vegas had a pretty simple answer. D was for it if they could be taxed and if the tax money would only go towards education. These were the only circumstances under which prostitution could become legal according to D. D was a local resident and thought that the brothels would be a good idea for the main reason that the prostitutes would “have to be tested.”