{"id":1080,"date":"2010-08-19T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2010-08-19T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:23:00","slug":"ex-madam-kristin-davis-official-candidate-for-governor-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Madam Kristin Davis Official Candidate for Governor of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Ex-Madam Kristin Davis , who supplied escorts for Eliot Spitzer, filled\u00a0 22,000 voter signatures to the New York State Board Of Elections on Aug 17.\u00a0 This secures her as a independent candidate in the gubernatorial race.\u00a0 Davis will be candidate for her own Anti-Prohibition Party.<\/p>\n

Below is an interview conducted in late July where Davis talks in depth about her stances on a wide range of issues from New York job growth to managing sex workers as a feminist.<\/p>\n

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Thanks you for talking with me, I did get a chance to go to your birthday party, where you came out as being against the \u201cGround Zero Mosque\u201d being built, but before we get into that I really wanted a chance to talk to you about your campaign in general and do you feel like your past involvement in the adult and sex industry media not take you as seriously?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think my past works sort of like a double-edged sword, as a minor party candidate you really can\u2019t get any press. The other minor party candidates aren\u2019t being covered and they can\u2019t make a difference, even if they know they can\u2019t win and are running to highlight issues they care about they can\u2019t even be successful in doing that because in order to do that people need to know about you, read about you.<\/p>\n

While there is some skeptism about my past and why I\u2019m running it enables me to get a huge amount of press because it makes politics interesting.\u00a0 I get the opportunity to speak about the issues that I care about.\u00a0 So if I\u2019m on TV or giving a speech, I have the opportunity to let people hear me and think \u2018 Wow, she\u2019s intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m able to win them over but it takes a while for them to understand that being a madam was an economic decision that I made. It was not because I had a bad childhood or wanted to exploit women, I looked at it as empowering women and came from a background of vice president of a hedge fund \u2013 a multi-billion dollar hedge fund so I approached it in a very business like manner.<\/p>\n

What was that transition like from a hedge fund to the sex industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know I don\u2019t think it\u2019s much different.\u00a0 You know the finance industry is a boy\u2019s club and I started as a trading assistant when I was 18 and in college and was sort of used to having to deal with work with these traders and portfolio managers that spent excessively on the company\u2019s dime and they would ask me to hook them up with strip clubs and things when they went out of town and to call the VIP host club in Vegas to make sure girls were at their rooms.\u00a0 So it sort of already used to dealing with catering to this type of man.<\/p>\n

Going forward I was able to learn a very good work ethic working for in finance and working with very difficult portfolio managers that expected nothing but the best.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s why I was successful in running a very successful escort agency that was known for having quality women and being very professional. There\u2019s a lot of people that start agencies and you call them and the girl never shows up, or robs you, or double charges your credit card, I mean just a myriad of different things.<\/p>\n

We were run very professionally, we had an overseas call center in Argentina, and we were run as professional as you can get for being an illegal business.<\/p>\n

Okay, well speaking of the legal side of the business there are some people that want to know is there a difference between a \u201cMadam\u201d and a \u201cPimp\u201d ? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure, I think anyone that uses the word \u201cpimp\u201d is very derogatory towards women, because you have the negative connotation. \u00a0It\u2019s stereotype that you might see on Jerry Springer show, these guys forcing women to work on the streets, beating them, having sex with them and taking all their money.<\/p>\n

A madam is the best term I could provide for what I did. I considered it a business, I provided girls with opportunities, I didn\u2019t force them to do anything, I encouraged them to set their own boundaries, I did take and exorbitant amount of money from them, I offered them health care I 1099\u2019d them and direct deposited their money much like a normal job, except obviously it is illegal.<\/p>\n

There are people that concerned about your stance on legalizing prostitution. How would legalization of prostitution destroy the Pimp Culture? Do you believe it will deter under aged prostitution, the documentary Very Young Girls claims the average age of a hooker in NYC is 14.\u00a0 How will the legalization of prostitution make life better for those young women and prostitutes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think that no one under aged should be working as a prostitute.\u00a0 I feel very strongly that the reason you have women in this country, the United States, being sex trafficked is because they are afraid to call the police.\u00a0 They are being told by pimps or their traffickers that they are committing a crime and if they call the police they are going to go to jail.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the main reasons they don\u2019t seek legal protection, if this were legal there would be agencies in place to dictate how businesses are run and provide standards that protect the women working in the industry.<\/p>\n

Case in point , the woman that was killed by Phillip Markoff,\u00a0 her name was Julissa Brisman\u2013 a very good friend of mine who also worked for me for a few years.\u00a0 I found out she was murdered because I was asked for advice about craigslist because I utilized craigslist quite a bit in some of my lower priced agencies.<\/p>\n

The news had just come out and I googled it and saw that it was her. I was very upset obviously, in researching this guy who killed her it comes out when he was caught that he was found with dozens of trophies from victims that were all sex workers. Had one of these women felt like they could seek legal protection and reported him this girl \u2013 my friend- would still be alive.<\/p>\n

He would have been caught before he took it to the next level.\u00a0 So I think that while people in society don\u2019t want to admit that this goes on we need to just face the facts it goes on and there\u2019s double standards across the board because men never get punished.<\/p>\n

Once a woman is convicted of this crime, and I should know, she\u2019s unemployable.\u00a0 They are only condemning her into a life of more prostitution. So I think that by and large what happens between two consenting individuals is between then and if they choose to exchange money for the transaction\u2026\u00a0 I know plenty of girls that sleep with people for dinner its just part of society at this point in time and I think we need to protect the people that are in the industry. If they are being forced into it or they are doing it by choice.<\/p>\n

I have read a lot of articles about you and your campaign, originally you were going to run as a Libertarian, but now you are running as your own party , why id you not go for the Libertarian Nomination?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spoke with the Libertarian Party in Manhattan and spoke at a number of their events and was interested in perusing their nomination and unfortunately they have a nominating convention that happened I believe in February and we had request from them \u2013 as its traditional in politics \u2013 to get access to the registered voters under that party.<\/p>\n

The republicans do it, the democrats do it and when we asked the Libertarians for access to the registered Libertarians so we could contact them, solicit their support and send them information about myself so they would know that I was seeking the nomination and so they knew my platform we were not granted that information.\u00a0 They told us \u201cno\u201d, then the day before the convention we found out the candidate we were up against had been given the information.<\/p>\n

So we were unfortunately going into a bad situation were they basically set somebody else up to win the nomination and there were three candidates involved. One being Sam Sloan who is actually suing the Libertarian Party of Manhattan because he wasn\u2019t given access and he obviously spent his own money to try to get the nomination only to find out this guy was giving the information we all should have been given.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the main reason why I chose not to seek their nomination. When talking about how to make the most impact in this race creating my own party would be the way for me.<\/p>\n

When you kick started you campaign at your birthday party, I discovered that you were working closely with the famous Republican Strategist Roger Stone. What would you say to people who question the validity of his support of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I think the thing to know about Roger Stone is that for at least the last ten years he\u2019s been very vocal on the fact that he is a Libertarian. \u00a0He\u2019s a Republican but he\u2019s a socially liberal, fiscally conservative Republican.<\/p>\n

Him and I met doing a radio show over a year ago he was very intrigued at the things that had happened to me, how the system sort of screwed me.\u00a0 Obviously I went to jail and Spitzer did not.\u00a0 It was very political, to keep me silent. Him and I spent many times talking because I wanted to lobby for the legalization of prostitution and at the end of our meetings we came up with the idea that running for office would be the best way to bring attention to issues.<\/p>\n

For him he believes in these issues, which is why he is on this campaign. If look at the state of politics in New York pretty much everyone in the independent parties have been invited Working Families and ACORN have suffered major hits. All the minor parties have been found to be corrupt. Yet we\u2019re still the highest taxed state in the nation, we\u2019re broke, deeply in depth and we\u2019ve seen how many indictments of politicians in the last few years? Spitzer resigning, maybe Paterson eventually, its just endless.\u00a0 From his perspective, being an expert, he sees the opportunity to reform the state.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s important to highlight about this campaign is \u2013 whenever anyone asks me the question \u201cDo you really expect to win?\u201d\u00a0 My response is \u201cDefine win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winning to some might be winning the governorship but Como has 60% approval its pretty much in the bag for him, perhaps winning is with 50,000 votes my party gets permanent ballot status for the next four years. Which means we can really lobby for these issues.\u00a0 We can go to Albany and push them, make people hear us because we now have a permanent party and that\u2019s a powerful thing in NY.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a hoax; if I wanted press I could release my little black book. People find that much more interesting than minor party politics.\u00a0 It\u2019s about what you stand for. People care more about Tiger Woods\u2019 mistresses then they do who\u2019s running for Governor.\u00a0 That will make the news for two weeks straight but the rest is like page 35.<\/p>\n

Continued in part two<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
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