Republicans threaten Paul Davis with ads about years-old strip club incident

After Kansas Democrat Paul Davis complained about a Republican ad for falsely stating he supports Nancy Pelosi, the GOP group that funded the TV commercial threatened to start airing ads about a strip club incident in his past.

“Paul Davis should be careful what he wishes for — when the Pelosi ads come down, the strip club ads go up,” said Corry Bliss, executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super political action committee linked to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Davis is running to replace Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins, who is retiring, in Kansas’ 2nd congressional district.

When he ran against GOP Gov. Sam Brownback for governor in 2014, Republicans attacked him over reports that he’d been at a strip club when it was raided in a search for drugs 16 years earlier.

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