SA: Garrett says Rudd has handled strip club issue well

AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2007
SA: Garrett says Rudd has handled strip club issue well

ADELAIDE, Aug 20 AAP - Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's visit to a New York strip club
is a "storm in a fractured teacup", Labor's environment spokesman Peter Garrett says.

Mr Garrett said Mr Rudd had handled the issue well after admitting to a drunken night
in a New York gentlemen's club four years ago.

"This is one of those things that happen every now and then," Mr Garrett told reporters
while visiting a sustainable housing project in Adelaide with local Labor MP Kate Ellis.

"It's a bit of a storm in a fractured teacup, frankly.

"I don't think it's any big deal."

Asked if either of them had ever visited a strip club, Ms Ellis said she did not have
time for such things, even though Adelaide's Hindley Street nightclub district was in
her electorate.

"I'm in much the same situation," Mr Garrett said.

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